Review of American Farmhouses: Country Style and Design (Hardcover)

I grew up in California agriculture and the houses selected for this book bare little resemblence to Western farmhouses.All the houses are from east of the Mississippi, mostly East Coast and very old.There is one Texas farmhouse from the Civil War era.

It seems that the design strategy of the owners has been to restore the old farmhouse ambience with older style elements.In California we try to reach the ambience of the farmhouse but with modern elements and techniques.If this is your objective then the book is still interesting but it won't give you much direct inspiration.

I rate it three stars because the author forgot that the western US has its own farmhouse style and we happen to be American also.A more appropriate title would have been "Colonial American Farmhouses".

- jim



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