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| | The Home Office Book explores all aspects of creating a workable, comfortable, and stylish office at home. A rich source of ideas, information, and design solutions, The Home Office Book also comes at a timely moment, as one in five Americans works from home today.
Author Donna Paul, a contributing editor to Metropolitan Home, brings her experience and expertise to an analysis of forty-five home offices around the country, looking at how and why they work. These locations offer practical, innovative possibilities for storage, lighting, seating, work surfaces, entrances, reception areas, and much more. Whether the office is tucked into the corner of a living room, installed in a second bedroom, or housed in a converted garage, The Home Office Book suggests ingenious ways to work with the space available. Some of the home offices are designed with one user in mind; others are to be shared with a mate or associate. Many of the offices must perform double duty, sliding out of sight or converting when needed into guest quarters, dining rooms, or additional living spaces.
The more than 250 color photographs--showing entire rooms as well as wonderful details--offer practical and creative design ideas. With its extensive source listing, The Home Office Book will be an invaluable resource for anyone who dreams of going into business at home.
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| | ISBN: 1885183305 Date Published on 1/10/1996 |
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| | Shows you how to install windows, doors, and skylights as quickly and efficiently as a professional. You can choose from many types and styles among windows (double-hung and picture windows) and both interior and exterior doors (prehung, sliding glass, and swinging doors). Customize windows with shutters, fanlights, and moldings, and even make an assortment of both window and door repairs. Each book in the Quick Guide Series has more than 190 two-color illustrations with easy-to-follow instructions. |
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| | ISBN: 1880029235 Date Published on 3/28/1994 |
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| You appreciate the ease-of-use, low maintenance and layout of new construction; you admire the charm, detail and warmth of older homes. Why not have both? With New Spaces, Old World Charm , you can! This insightful book, filled with 250 inspiring full color photographs, will help you transform your new home into a vintage space rich with history, warmth and comfort. Inside, fourteen leading designers show you how they brought historical interest, human scale, timeless style and welcoming warmth to newly built or gutted residences.You'll find hundreds of ways to create classic-yet-fresh spaces through architectural details, bold color, rich textiles, antique and reproduction furnishings and much more. Step inside and begin your journey of discovery. You'll find: A large, new Palm Beach home decorated in Bermuda cottage-inspired splendor by Ann LeConey. A large builder's house reimagined as a charming Colonial by Carl D'Aquino and Francine Monaco A historic townhouse revived and imbued with chic sophistication by Joe Nahem. An Asian-influenced penthouse by Peter Chu. And that's just the start -- you'll also find winning projects by top-rated designers Robert Couturier, Elissa Cullman all sharing tips of their trade. For house lovers, for designers, for dreamers-;there are few books that offer as rich an assortment of ideas and sources as this one. New Spaces, Old World Charm indeed has its own charm. It's a book sure to bring delight, whether you keep it for yourself or give it to somebody who truly values timeless craftsmanship and quality.
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| | ISBN: 0071439293 Date Published on 11/1/2004 |
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| | America's most famous architect was obsessed with small houses. Even though this exciting aspect of his work has been long overlooked, the truth is that Frank Lloyd Wright spent most of his career addressing the problems of houses intended for individuals or small families of modest means. In the only book on the master architect to focus on "the house of moderate cost," Wright expert Diane Maddex takes the reader inside a selection of his small houses from across the country, turning the spotlight on Wright's ingenious solutions to make these homes look and feel large. |
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| | ISBN: 0810946262 Date Published on 11/25/2003 |
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| An ingenious and foolproof guide to decorating with color by one of America’s foremost color and interior design experts.
Color is the backbone of decorating and comes into play in nearly every decorating decision. But decorating with color can be intimidating, even for professionals. There are so many decisions to be made—about wall colors and window treatments, sofas and throw pillows, floor stains and rugs, bathroom tiles and towels, even the colors of a flower bed. The result is that many of us—designers included—fall back on boring but safe shades of whites and neutrals. Joann Eckstut, one of America’s foremost experts on color, has devised a system for choosing the most harmonious color combinations in The Color Palette Primer, featuring more than 800 error-proof palettes.
Each page focuses on a single dominant color, with three distinct palettes that contain the dominant color alongside an accent color and a neutral secondary color. This system allows readers to locate the one color they know they’d like to use (or that they’re stuck with!) and see three very different uses for that color. Instead of photographs, which date quickly, there are eight iconic line drawings throughout showing vignettes of rooms (upholstery, window treatments, walls and moldings, etc.) and how the given palettes look in these contexts. All of the colors correspond to paints that are available nationally.
For everyone intrigued by the endless possibilities of color, but fearful of creating a decorating fiasco, this is the foolproof solution.
In The Color Palette Primer, you’ll find perfect color combinations for every situation—whether you’re starting from scratch or coordinating with existing colors. You’ll need this book if you are:
• Painting your house—inside or out
• Buying or reupholstering furniture
• Renovating a kitchen or bathroom
• Adding decorative accents—from lampshades to throw pillows
• Buying new bedding
• Planning a flower bed
• Choosing bath towels
• Picking out a carpet or rug
• Staining your floors
• Adding window treatments
• Deciding on a new china pattern or table linens
• And much, much more!
Every color in this book corresponds to a paint color from a national brand. At the end of each section, you will find a page identifying the paints by brand. Here is the key to the brands:
• BM-CC Benjamin Moore Color Classics
• BM-CP Benjamin Moore Color Preview
• GL Glidden
• PL Pratt & Lambert
• RLP Ralph Lauren Paint
• SWC Sherwin Williams Color
• SWCA Sherwin Williams Color Preview
• SW-MS Sherwin Williams–Martha Stewart
Color Viewer
This neutral gray viewer allows you to see a palette on its own without the influence of the other palettes on the page or the white of the page around it. Once you find a palette you like, all you need to do is to place the viewer on the chosen palette so that it blocks out the white space around it. |
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| | ISBN: 0767918878 Date Published on 6/28/2005 |
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| | Color is a catalyst for feelings - about how we look, decorate our home or office, plant in our garden, and relate to each other. The right colors stimulate or relax our senses, release happy memories, reflect how we feel about ourselves and about our personal space. For the past twenty-five years, color authority and best-selling author, Lee Eiseman, has spoken to thousands of consumers and professionals about the influence of color. Now she provides expert answers for all of us who want more color in our lives. For The Color Answer Book, she has selected the questions people ask her most, and broken them into the areas that most affect your life - wardrobe planning - including makeup, hair color, and accessories; decorating your home or office; your health and your garden or outdoor space. |
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| | ISBN: 1933102101 Date Published on 10/30/2005 |
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| Helps homeowners make the right decisions, from selecting a contractor to choosing bathroom tile. Over 280 color photos and illustrations.
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| | ISBN: 1880029995 Date Published on 12/28/1997 |
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| | Whether you want to take all the responsibility to contract your home or simply want to intelligently communicate with your homebuilder, The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home can save you up to 30 percent or more on the cost of home construction by teaching you the practical day-to-day details of managing a construction project.
The fact is, this book has helped tens of thousands of people reach their construction goals. And with totally updated information--including up-to-date finance, tax and Internet resources--this all-new third edition will help you reach your construction goals, too. |
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| | ISBN: 1558704655 Date Published on 6/1/1997 |
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| * Features hundreds of detailed illustrations from actual period millwork catalogs.
* Demonstrates how to properly specify millwork.
* Include a glossary of key terms.
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| | ISBN: 0471416223 Date Published on 2/18/2003 |
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