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If you're planning to build your own one-story dream home, this extensive collection will show you the best selling and most stylish designs available today!

• More than 360 plans to help you find & build your dream home
• More than 250 color photos of finished 1-story homes
• Home plans from top architects and designers from all over North America
• Wide variety of styles and sizes suited for any budget, from Traditional Ranch style to Country Craftsman cottages
• Special sections featuring outdoor living trends, kitchen design ideas, today's top features in a home, & how to maximize your living space
• CAD blueprint

More than 350 home plans were selected for Best-Selling 1-Story Home Plans, Updated 4th Edition as most desirable based on actual sales data.

From convenient ranch homes to traditional cottages, you'll find a wide variety of styles and sizes here to meet your budget. 

This is the ultimate guide to adding the perfect deck!

• How to add the perfect deck—whether doing it yourself or working with a contractor
• Hundreds of step-by-step color photographs highlight the clear, concise, friendly text
• 30 deck projects include complete plans and materials lists
• New photos and new information on composite decking in this updated 5th edition
• Designs created by master deck builders

Choose from 30 designs created by master deck builders, with complete plans, materials lists, and hundreds of step-by-step color photographs.

Decks continue to be one of the most popular additions to homes today as more and more homeowners seek to enjoy outdoor living and expand living space. Ultimate Guide: Decks, Updated 5th Edition leads you through the process of designing and building a deck, whether as a do-it-yourself project or working with a contractor. At CRH, we are here to help design and layout out your unique deck as well.

Hundreds of step-by-step color photographs highlight the clear, concise, and friendly text. The authors provide helpful advice on generating ideas, selecting materials, and using tools as they lead the reader through the complete process. Further inspiration comes from dozens of deck designs and ideas from the nation's top deck designer/builders.

Finally, 30 different deck projects, complete with plans and materials lists, are included so that even a novice can create a finished deck with this complete guide.

Interior design firm Cullman & Kravis infuses traditional interiors with a modern perspective, embracing historicism and referencing a wide range of cultures and contemporary design motifs. In From Classic to Contemporary: Decorating with Cullman & Kravis, Ellie Cullman and Tracey Pruzan explore the lessons from modernism that add a new and welcome dynamism to the firm’s most recent projects, both traditional and modern.
 
“We believe in the alchemy of old and new,” observes Ellie Cullman, founder and principal of Cullman & Kravis. “We approach every project with the rigor of a jigsaw puzzle, but with the desire to create a magnificent tapestry.”
 
Cullman and Pruzan share how the venerable interior design firm applies principles of modernism to add a new and welcome tension to their more classical work, while in their more modern schemes, the classic principles of design guide their process. 
 
The fourteen distinct projects in this book are collaborations between Ellie Cullman and her partners Lee Cavanaugh, Sarah Ramsey, Claire Ratliff, and Alyssa Urban. Running the gamut from modest revisions to ground-up construction and complete renovations, these interiors include a sumptuous New York City duplex that is a clever mix of traditional furnishings and an impressive contemporary art collection; a glass-clad modern Miami villa with vivid colors and bold prints; an oceanfront Palm Beach house with museum-quality art and antiques; an historic Westchester estate once owned by Brooke Astor; and Ellie Cullman’s own home, whose “refresh” illustrates how to renew, modernize, and reinvigorate any project.