Vacation Homes and Log Cabins (Dover Crafts: Building & Construction)

This book hasn't been updated in 30 to 50 years.Needs a new edition.

I loved the useful variety of the entire book. I can see building at least two models in the next five years.

This book did contain some interesting or valuable information. This is the only reason I gave it two stars. As for the floor plans, they were the usual architectural crap that one sees in house plan catalogs sold at magazine stands these days. Log cabins used to be open floor plans, which allowed flexible use of the space. But, adding walls to divide up floor space not only wastes a lot of usable space, but make the cost of construction excessively high. Further, these unnecessary walls prevent an adequate fireplace from heating the entire cabin. And, every design calls for the bathing and toilet facilities being in the same room. So, when someone is taking a long, hot shower, anyone who has an urgent call of nature must make like a bear in the woods. You might as well have an outhouse. In conclusion, this book didn't provide much in the way of ideas or designs of the practical pioneer cabin that I was looking for.

Should have been shipped with a cardboard or something stiff to protect the paperback. Broke the spine in shipping. But cool book!

This is actually an excellent little guide with practical choices of several simple but classic home styles. Based on the guide originally published in 1972, it gives all the required information (plan details) to build the homes included. There is not a lot of text or explanation of building techniques, only the plans, text with use and design considerations and plan details. I actually really recommend this book for those looking for complete plans for a vacation or small home they could afford to build

Great house plan book

The product is very poorly hand written plans that appear to be the first rough plans

Not up to code but a great stard

Lots of good diagrams in this book.

この本は英語の本で全文英語なのはもちろん、単位系もフィート/ポンド系なのでその辺は注意が必要です。内容は「Ｖａｃａｔｉｏｎ　Ｈｏｍｅｓ」というだけあり休暇を過ごす為の小屋のモデル例といくつかの図面で構成されています。実際に作ろうとすれば最小限の知識（建築の）が必要になりますがアメリカではこの程度の本から実際に自身の手で小屋を立てる人は少なくなく私たちもやろうと思えばできるという事は知っていてもいいかも知れません。