Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: The 11 quaint and colorful projects in this book range from simple cottages and country churches to more elaborate townhouses. Anyone who can cut, hammer and glue can build every house in this book—the simple cutting patterns and assembly instructions make it easy. Illustrated, step-by-step directions show how to embellish them with decorative trims, window boxes, cornices, shutters and other Victorian touches.About the Joyce Rice began making birdhouses when she convinced her husband to spare a dead tree in her yard, and then filled its barren limbs with 17 birdhouses. She's been building birdhouses ever since, and has been featured in newspaper and Birds & Blooms magazine articles. She lives in Lowden, Iowa.