Island Living: Inland Retreats and Shoreside Havens

By Linda Leigh Paul

Book Overview

To live on an island is to live a life apart. Author Linda Leigh Paul's Island Living captures the most charming island homes, including homes on the East Coast's Barrier Islands, the Northwest's San... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789313065
• ISBN13: 9780789313065
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The Great Utopia of Island Living

The is a wonderful collection of residences that show a broad scope of the idea of escape. In general one thinks of "a South sea island" as the only possibility. Here we are given views that are not part of the main.

An architect Island Resident

Very nice layout and graphics and selection of relatively modest but well thought out homes.

25 Homes in Beautiful Settings

When I thought of living on an island, my first thought was the tropics. Somewhere down in the Caribbean or perhaps the South Pacific. Here houses would be open to the wind, here it would be necessary to produce your own electricity, your own water supply and so on. Instead in this book, most of the houses are on islands just off the coast of the US. And as part of the sub-title, there are some that he considers to be Shoreside Havens rather than actually on an island. Further many of these houses are quite far north, off the coast of Maine perhaps or in the area around foggy, rainy Seattle. Here you don't want a wide open house, but one that can be warm and cozy while presenting a view of the storm tossed water. Here are some twenty-five spectacular homes. These are not the huge mansions often seen in such books, but homes that are only slightly above the mainstream. Here are homes that are made to fit into a site and to reflect the love that the owners have for that site.