Expert advice from one of Australia’s top conservation architects. Illustrated with over 180 detailed sketches and photographs and covering all components of old buildings. This is a new, revised and enlarged edition with two new chapters.
The definitive guide to styles of houses built in Australia from 1788 to the present. Illustrated with 63 detailed sketches. The text & drawings combine authority and authenticity with sharp social comment & a wry sense of humour.
The first guide to painting & decorating old houses in authentic traditional colour schemes. A ‘paint-by-numbers’ book, illustrated with sketches of types of houses and interiors built in Australia between 1820 & the 1940s. Colour schemes from this book, collected by paint scrapes on old houses throughout Australia, have changed the face of Australian towns, suburbs and the countryside.
A new and revised edition of the second colour scheme guide first published in 1992. This authoritative guide to painting & decorating old houses, using traditional colours in the traditional manner, is illustrated with sketches of types of houses and interiors built in Australia between 1820 and the 1940s.
4 publications produced by Ian Stapleton with Maisy Stapleton, Clive Lucas and Ian Evans providing expert guidance for the care and maintenance of Australian buildings
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