Waterfront Homes: 200 Plans for River, Lake or Sea [Paperback]

Jan Prideaux (Editor), Marian E. Haggard (Editor), Inc. Home Planners (Corporate Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1999

whatever your waterside wonderland-youre sure to find the perfect plan for it in Waterfront Homes. Featuring 200 designs from some of the best and most respected residential designers in the country, this book offers everything from simple cabins to luxurious waterfront estates. These homes allow you to enhance what many home owners believe are the most desirable sites in the country.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Home Planners (September 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881955648
• ISBN-13: 978-1881955641
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,664 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #76 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > How-to & Home Improvements > Home Design > House Plans

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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A nice sample of waterfront houseplans, April 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Waterfront Homes: 200 Plans for River, Lake or Sea (Paperback)

There are some exciting and distinguished house plans of all sizes in this book. The written features are succinct and describes characteristic features well. The plans are drawn fairly large and clear. The housplans themselves vary from vacation types of greater than 1200 square feet and more to luxurious residential homes abutting the lakeshore or river over 5,000 square feet. The plans have the front view drawings of the home. If you are looking for a home to build that is a vacation getaway in the Florida Keys or along the eastern intracoastal waterway, this may be your book to look through... its worth a glimpse at the very least!

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just a standard old house plan book, January 30, 2003

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Jackie M. Bachenberg "theoriginaljfmmb" (Canton, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waterfront Homes: 200 Plans for River, Lake or Sea (Paperback)

This is basically a collection of off the shelf house plans. I'd guarantee you that if you pick up another title by the same publisher, you'll find many of these plans repeated there. True, most do have a fair amount of glass on one side, making them suitable for catching views of why you built the house there. They have divided the plans in the categories like, lakefront, riverside, ocean, pier houses, and luxury. The houses listed in the lakefront and riverside chapters have nothing special about them to make them "lakefront" or "riverside". Some of the ocean houses do have more of either a Cape Cod or east coast feel, but not all. Obviously, the pier house are as advertised and the luxury are mostly just big.

If you're beginning your search and gathering starting points, this can be a good book. Quite honestly, you'll probably have better luck if you buy a plan book concentrating more on the features you want in a house not, as this book suggests the site of the house. If you want a one story home, buy plan books that say "ranch" or "one story" in the title, if you want a smaller or retirement home, look for "small" or "retirement" or "empty nester" in the title, if you want fewer but larger rooms, look for "open" in the title. After you've got a book with plans with features that fit your lifestyle, then look for plans with lots of windows to admire the view from. If you're looking for something a bit more unique, spend a little more and go with some of the hardback books on the market.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What view?, June 8, 2001

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A Iversen (Anacortes, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waterfront Homes: 200 Plans for River, Lake or Sea (Paperback)

I cannot imagine using these plans for a seaside house if you want to have a great view of the water. I didn't feel that these homes had specific construction geared to a waterfront home.