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Featuring over 100 topics of interest to DoItYourselfers.Home Architecture and Style
Since the architecture and style in your home is so important, we want to help you learn how you can maximize its design and decor on a budget you can afford. The articles in this section tell you about different styles of construction that will accentuate your home's positive space and features, helping you create tasteful, fashionable deigns.
- 'Dead Ringer' Fakes
- 'Miami Vice' Gives Architecture a Bad Name
- A Brief History of 'High-Tech' Architecture
- A House for All Seasons
- A Stage for Living
- Accentuate the Positive
- Advertising Hogwash
- Affordable Housing - The Invisible Answer Part # 1
- Affordable Housing - The Invisible Answer Part # 2
- Affordable Housing - The Invisible Answer Part # 3
- Affordable Housing - Why So Many Failures ?
- America's Most Envied Homeowners
- American Architects Struggle for Simplicity
- Architect Designed Homes Provide More Bang for the Buck
- Architects Choose Fashion Over Function
- Architectural Good Taste Does 'Flip-Flop'
- Architectural Schools Push Testing, Not Practice
- Architectural Wonders Pepper America's Evolution
- Architecture Draws from Painter's Palate
- Architecture Succumbs to 'Safe' Design
- Architecture Succumbs to the Will of the People
- Baby Boomers Demand Alternative Style
- Big Florida Houses Exude Soul and Comfort
- Blowing the Budget
- Building With a $7 Million Budget
- Bungalow Addition Creates Real Estate Quandary
- California's Sound Wall Boondoggle
- Code Wise
- Design Review Boards Do Architecture a Disservice
- Design Review Gives Government Power Over Personal Taste
- Do Architects Adopt Three Part Names to Sound Pompous?
- Do's and Don'ts of Mixing Architectural Styles
- Elevators For Residential Use
- Flex Space Offers Homeowners Lots of Options
- Form Following Function
- From Mansions to Mud - American Housing Evolves
- Full Reverse - Guidelines for Restoration
- Future Homes Seen Through Eyes of the Past
- Future Shock
- Get Schooled on Architectural Home Styles
- Grand Homes Come in Small Packages
- Grandiose or Grand, How Can You Tell the Difference?
- Historic French Villa Plagued by Design Problems
- Home Design Bloopers
- Home Design Firms That Don't Sell a Finished House
- Home Entries
- Home's Beauty Lies in Details, Not Size
- House Within a House
- How Big is a 2,500 Square Foot House ?
- How Do We Recognize a Building Worth Saving ?
- Immortal, Stupid Ideas
- Life's Little Conveniences
- Live Work - Not a Style, a Lifestyle
- Live-Work Essentials
- Love Your House
- Modernist Architecture Breeds Urban Isolation
- My Old School is Gone
- New Urbanism Struggles for Survival in America
- On the Level - Growing Popularity for One-Story Homes
- Plagiarized Work Does Not Have to Be Startlingly New and Different
- Plaster Walls Fall by Postwar Wayside
- Portrait of a Modern Home
- Proper Programming Can Help You Maneuver Planning Conflicts
- Quality Lies in Architecture's Little Details
- Real Estate Fashion Sense Hits a Mental Wall
- Senior Co-ops - The New Housing Rage
- Skim Milk Traditionalism
- Small Details Improve Home's Functionality
- The Bungalow and Beyond
- The California Bungalow - Think Small
- The Contractor's Lexicon
- Tongue Tied in Home Design
- Twilight Zoning
- Up Close and Personal
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