Dream House: On Building a House

by Joe Coomer

The author relates how he and his wife undertook construction of their first house in Texas, describing the day-to-day successes and frustrations and the details throughout the process that gave them the greatest satisfaction

Genres: Architecture, Memoir

195 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Joe Coomer is a fiction and nonfiction writer who lives outside of Fort Worth, Texas, and on the coast of Maine. He "spends his winters in Springtown, Texas, where he runs a pair of large antique malls. He lives in a fairly new Victorian house that he spent a year and a half building in the late eighties, a project he wrote about in Dream House [1991]. His wife, Isabelle Tokumaru, runs her paintings conservation practice in the third story, while he writes novels in the kitchen, where the food is close. Summers, they live in Stonington, Maine, an active fishing village on the coast. When the weather's nice, he takes his old motor sailer, "Yonder", on day sails and cruises down east. He chronicled her purchase, restoration, and his stupidities at sea in Sailing in a Spoonful of Water [1997]."

Reviews

[Maura · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book that introduced me to Joe Coomer. One of my favorite writers.