For anyone interested in learning about or creating an authentic Colonial-style home, home-design and - construction expert Hugh Howard provides a tour of selected Colonial Williamsburg classic homes. Each house is presented in no fewer than five new color photographs and an easy-to-read floor plan, revealing all the characteristic architectural detail work that defines Colonial-style dream homes such as Wyeth House and Peyton-Randolph House, along with the more modestly sized, but equally charming, Tayloe House and Lightfoot House. The book not only showcases each house's many attributes, but also tells the story of each selected house's renovation to its original splendor. To ensure the book's accessibility to a wide readership, a glossary of all the basic building terminology the homeowner should know is included. Colonial Houses looks at both houses that are open to visitors of Colonial Williamsburg, as well as several rarely shown private homes. All of these houses are original eighteenth-century structures - the oldest, Nelson-Galt House, was built in 1695; at the opposite end of the time line, St. George Tucker completed the transformation of his house a century later - each