Step-by-step instructions and clear assembly diagrams for re-creating a delightful dwelling modeled after an 1887 Queen Anne–style California home. The coral, turquoise, and blue structure includes towering red brick chimneys, a shingled turret, wraparound front porch, gazebo, and other distinctive features.

Reconstruct 19th-century plantation: splendid main house with colonnades, two wings, carriage house, slave quarters, fence, more. Complete instructions, exploded diagrams.

How to paint and decorate elaborately.

A tour of the astonishing and stunning newly painted Victorian homes now beautifying all of the United States as ancestors of the original Painted Ladies of San Francisco! 172 full-color photographs.

Subtitle on cover: Pattern cutting from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Victorian Exterior Decoration provides a foolproof system for choosing the colors that will best suit the particular style of any house.