Ranch Houses: Living the California Dream Format:Hardcover Early in the twentieth century

Early in the twentieth century Los Angeles architect Henry Wilson who called himself The Bungalow Man compiled 112 of the most popular and economic bungalow blueprints of his time in a catalog for would-be homeowners

Featuring breathtaking photographs of some of Scotland’s most remarkable and little-known houses this book tells the story of how incomers adopted the North of Scotland as a recreational paradise and left an astonishing legacy of architecture and decoration inspired by the romanticized image of the Highlands

ISBN-10: 0804850461

ISBN-10: 0847848000

Ranch Houses: Living the California Dream Format:Hardcover Early in the twentieth centuryWith its archetypal open plan and reverence of indoor outdoor living the Ranch house is at the very heart of the California dream. When we picture California Ranch housesthe low slung informal dwellings that engulfed suburbs after World War IIwe are thinking of just one part of a phenomenon that has its roots in early nineteenth century ranchos and which continues today in houses that are startling and up to the minute. Examples of the type have been