{"product_id":"9780486140926","title":"Small Houses of the Forties: With Illustrations and Floor Plans","description":"\u003cbr\u003eDesigned for the 1940s family with a \"limited budget but unlimited good taste,\" this fascinating volume presents 56 floor plans and elevations of lovely small homes that originally cost less than $15,000 to build. Each home, bearing the honorable designation of House-of-the-Month by the era's Monthly Small House Club, Inc., was designed to give prospective homeowners an exceptionally well-planned house that was also a sound investment. \u003cbr\u003eFrom Cape Cods to Colonials, \u003ci\u003eSmall Houses of the Forties\u003c\/i\u003e offers an eden of illustrations of cozy, charming domiciles, complete with color combinations, charts, and diagrams. This complete republication of a now-rare volume is also filled with vintage dollars-and-sense information for the postwar homebuyer, including mortgage guidance, amortization schedules, valuations, and construction costs of the times.\u003cbr\u003eA nostalgic flashback to a simpler American dream of white picket fences, this entertaining and valuable reference will delight architecture enthusiasts, plan collectors, restorers, and historians alike.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103862472944,"sku":"9780486140926","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780486140926_p0.jpg?v=1763708472","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780486140926","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}