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| | Serving as places of convergence, dining areas deserve to be fully functional and completely inviting. Among the large color photographs you will find unique ideas for designing your kitchen, dining room, and patio. This interior design book offers advice for people of all motif preferences and budgets - from those who want the chic look of a high-profile restaurant to those who want the rustic atmosphere of a country kitchen. As an added bonus, the chapter on outdoor dining areas proves that plastic patio furniture is not your only option. |
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| | ISBN: 156799282X Date Published on 9/4/2006 |
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| | In these pages you will find kitchens and dining rooms that suit a wide variety of budgets, tastes, and design philosophies. Using the ideas illustrated here, learn how to save valuable counter and floor space in your kitchen with imaginative storage ideas, or create a dining room that also allows for comfortable studying and entertaining. These creative design solutions will help you make the most of your floor space, storage space, and furniture. |
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| | ISBN: 1564963039 Date Published on 8/23/2006 |
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| | Laurie uses her own home, personal design journal, and classical training to teach design techniques. Inspirational, full-color photos capture Laurie's before-and-after design process. Gives homeowners confidence to work with any home's architectural "bones." Strategies to arrange furniture, choose colors, and play with patterns. |
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| | ISBN: 0696224062 Date Published on 5/23/2006 |
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| | Organize your life- starting with your kitchen! Free your counter space, start using all your appliances, put your pots where you can reach them, and stop digging in drawers for the spatula. Detailed questionnaires help you define what you want from your kitchen and dozens of color photographs display the range of kitchen products available. Three-dimensional plans of six different kitchens reveal the thinking behind a successful design -- and show how design needs can be met without rebuilding to create a hardworking yet beautiful kitchen. Plot your plan with simple step-by-step instructions and illustrations that explain how to draw a plan to scale for your own kitchen, with the graph paper provided. |
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| | ISBN: 078941449X Date Published on 8/22/2006 |
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| | This comprehensive guide is the last word in decorating your home with fabric. All aspects are covered, including curtains and drapes, cushions and pillows, soft seating, wall coverings, and linens. The book is loaded with practical and essential advice and actual projects in which the design ideas come to life. This beautiful volume contains over 800 full-color photographs and illustrations. |
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| | ISBN: 1571450874 Date Published on 6/20/2006 |
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| About This Book: This collection of projects and techniques is a comprehensive guide to sewing fabric decor for the home. It includes a variety of unique designer pillows with lots of ideas for personalizing them. Window treatment projects cover a wide range of styles and forms, from tried-and-true pinch-pleated draperies to fun-and-funky triangle pointed valances; some that require minimal sewing and others that are a bit more elaborate.
There are styles suitable for every room in the house, every skill level, with valuable information about window treatment hardware and installation. Slipcovering techniques also run the gamut from casual quick and easy to formal fitted, with expert advice for achieving professional-quality results. As an added bonus, each section includes pertinent information on selecting fabrics, working with patterns and colors, and developing a personal decorating style.
Highlights:
A comprehensive guide that covers all aspects of sewing for the home.
Includes a wide range of styles; suitable for all decorating schemes.
Covers a range of skill levels-includes something for everyone.
Features step-by-step photos and concise directions for every project,
with inspiring ideas for variations.
Eliminates the need for expensive patterns. Measuring and cutting directions are part of each project.
Includes information on window hardware options and resources for locating the right components for each job.
Very good book, with easy to follow instructions. My only reason for not giving it a 5-star rating was because I would have liked to see a few more curtain/drapery styles than were offered. Lots of really good tips in this book.
Its a good book for beginners, I am a beginner. ALOT of the projects in this book seem like they are from the early 80's (yuck) even though it was published in 2000. If looking for a how-to book this one is good with tips only. MOST of the projects are pillows and window treatments, with only a hand full of other projects. NOT a good book for the younger crowd looking for tips and projects for decorating their home. Or anyone looking for something modern. I personally was very disappointed, and there are book out there that are SO much better.
I ordered this book because I was out of ideas and needed some help with slipcovers. I have been sewing for more years than I can count, however, never to old to learn a few new tricks. I found this book to be very helpful, very simple instructions, step-by-step, they assume you are new at sewing, and take each step of the process & add photos so you can see what it is suppose to look like to keep you on track. I would suggest this book to anyone who wants to improve their sewing skills and/or new sewers or just looking for good ideas.
I wish I had seen this book first! This one reference combines numerous topics in one. What I like best are the step-by-step instructions - with photos! I am new at sewing and being able to see what the steps should look like is extremely helpful. Also, the book covered every type of curtain I could think up does such a thorough job with pillow descriptions that I think of the slipcovers section as an added bonus. If you want to decorate your home with neat and professional looking work, get this book!
What a great book! I'm not good with sewing... in fact, I've never done it before... but this book made everything so easy to understand, and therefore everything was so easy to make. Nobody wants to believe me that I did it all myself!
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| | ISBN: 0865733457 Date Published on 6/13/2006 |
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| Do-It-Yourself: Projects from Attic to Basement (Popular science) |
| | ISBN: 0806969121 Date Published on 9/4/2006 |
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| From the most popular decorator on TLC’s hit show “While You Were Out” comes a guide to the coolest kind of decorating on the skimpiest of budgets. Just a few dollars and a bit of creativity go a long way toward adding spice to your living space without breaking the bank. Stores like Dollar Tree and 99¢ Dream are popping up in every city in America with a treasure trove of items from frames to faux flowers. With these materials―and some easy instructions from Mark―readers will learn how to create and embellish everything from lampshades to storage areas for a fraction of the cost they would pay anywhere else. These projects are so cool no one will ever guess how little was paid!
Edgy and stylish, this book is the hippest guide available on shoestring budget decorating.
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| | ISBN: 0789313030 Date Published on 9/4/2006 |
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| | This definitive volume presents trendsetting homes from the forefront of architecture and decorating that have appeared in The New York Times Magazine. The last book of home stories from The New York Times Magazine was 1976+s the New York Times Book of Interior Design and Decoration. Now eagerly collected by design aficionados, it is a comprehensive and astute look at the work of the best designers of the time. This successor to that volume represents what is happening now at the forefront of the architecture and decorating worlds. The featured houses and apartments run the gamut from big to small, modest to grand, retro to cutting-edge. There are homes located in and around New York, Idaho, California, and Miami, and designed by such prominent architects as Le Corbusier, Gio Ponti, and BFive Studio. Many of them prove to be personal and vivid portraits of the people who designed them or live in them. About half the dwellings shown are designers+ own homes, including those of architect Ron Radziner and artist/designer Jonathan Adler, and two homes of famed designers Diamond Baratta. Stage performer Joel Grey has a home featured here as well. The great diversity of the homes shows that of all of today+s trends, eclecticism rules. |
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| | ISBN: 0821257102 Date Published on 7/7/2006 |
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