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Adobe Remodeling & Fireplaces

A Comprehensive Guide to Expansion, Restoration and Maintenance of Adobe Homes

Myrtle Stedman

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English
Sunstone Press
01 August 2016
In this one volume are clear and thorough instructions on remodeling adobe houses plus how to build an adobe fireplace. Illustrations and practical instructions make working from this book a pleasure. Designed for use by the most inexperienced person as well as the professional builder. Based on 48 years of the author's experience.
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Imprint:   Sunstone Press
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 215mm,  Spine: 4mm
Weight:   150g
ISBN:   9780865340862
ISBN 10:   0865340862
Pages:   50
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Myrtle Stedman was known as an ""Artist in Adobe,"" designing, building, and remodeling adobe homes under a contractor's license. She was also a well-known artist whose academic training started in 1927 when she was a student in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts school. Her English born husband, Wilfred Stedman, whose background was in architecture as well as in painting and illustrating was recognized as one of the most outstanding artists of the American Southwest. Adobe architecture in New Mexico was one of Wilfred's favorite topics of conversation and Myrtle was instilled with the love of adobes from the moment they were married. After his death in 1950, Myrtle went on to become one of the foremost authorities on adobe construction. Myrtle Stedman was a member of PEN New Mexico, a branch of PEN Center USA West of International PEN and believed that there is no end to what the mind can do with the eye and hand, in time and in spirit. She is also the author of ""Artists in Adobe,"" ""A House Not Made With Hands,"" ""Adobe Architecture,"" ""Of One Mind,"" ""Of Things to Come,"" ""Ongoing Life,"" ""Rural Architecture,"" ""The Ups and Downs of Living Alone in Later Life,"" and ""The Way Things Are or Could Be,"" all from Sunstone Press.

Reviews for Adobe Remodeling & Fireplaces: A Comprehensive Guide to Expansion, Restoration and Maintenance of Adobe Homes

.. .the most informative book we have found on adobe homes...a masterpiece of design and clear explanation of the craft of building with adobe. (Harper's Magazine)


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