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(More customer reviews)I love Dover books, especially Dover plan books, but sometimes, probably through no fault of their own, the publishers have to reproduce the plans in a size that's difficult to read. This is a book of which that complaint can't be made. All the houses--there are 56--are portrayed through large, clear floor plans and sharply reproduced pen-and-ink sketches. Most are starter homes intended for homecoming GI's with brides and perhaps a baby, with four or five rooms; some boast as many as three bedrooms for the older vet. Styles range from Colonial Revival to a modern split-level ranch. A rather lengthy series of prefatory articles includes what might be called "the 26 core principles of house planning," how to orient your house, construction standards, important financial principles, and other things the young vet needed to know. As social history or merely an exercise in nostalgia it's a very useful volume in Dover's long and ever-useful line of architecture titles, focusing on a very recent era which is often ignored by both this publisher and most historians.
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Designed for families with "limited budgets but unlimited good taste," here are 56 floor plans and elevations of houses that originally cost less than $15,000 to build. Recommended by financial institutions of the era, they range from Colonials to Cape Cods. Architecture enthusiasts and restorers will value this flashback to a simpler time.
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