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| | Introducing the ultimate sourcebook for the stylish home: Pottery Barn House & Home is filled with easy ideas for decorating, updating, and furnishing a cohesive, welcoming space. Whatever your style or budget, whether you’re completely remodeling or simply refreshing one room, you’ll find inspiration and practical guidelines to make your home a special place to be.
Key Features and Benefits:
* Discover hundreds of easy solutions for every aspect of home decorating: space planning, color selection, lighting, materials, fabrics, furnishings, accessories, and displays
* Get a glimpse inside real-life living rooms, gourmet kitchens, spa baths, home offices, outdoor spaces, and rooms of every style—including 700 photos commissioned exclusively for Pottery Barn books
* Learn about the latest design options for floors, fireplaces, bath fixtures, home offices, outdoor furniture, and more
* Find quick styling tips for photo displays, table settings, front entryways, bookshelves, and more
Pottery Barn House & Home puts the expertise of America’s leading source for home design at your fingertips and shows you how easy it is to create beautiful, personal spaces in your home. With chapters devoted to living, dining, cooking, sleeping, bathing, working, and relaxing, plus separate instructive sections on color, lighting, and materials, Pottery Barn House & Home demystifies decorating.
* Case studies take you in to real-life rooms and show you how and why each works.
* Design options give you all the information you need about the basics, from arranging seating to selecting bath fittings.
* Style guidelines offer easy, how-to advice for decorating that makes styling simple and shows you how to make quick but dramatic changes to your decor. |
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| | ISBN: 0848727657 Date Published on 5/19/2006 |
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| | Whether your windows are large or small, their surroundings formal or informal, this book provides all the inspiration and skills you need to create exactly the right window treatments for your home. |
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| | ISBN: 089577979X Date Published on 5/24/2006 |
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| | This collectable book is filled with tips and techniques for do-it-yourself around the home. It is aimed at the novice home decorator and experienced enthusiast alike, and contain practical advice. |
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| | ISBN: 075480643X Date Published on 5/8/2006 |
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| | Over 25 practical projects and hindreds of creative ideas for adding color and style to your household accessories, fabric and furniture. |
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| | ISBN: 1844762262 Date Published on 5/3/2006 |
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| | Pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs) have applications in the assembly of machine parts, coding, labeling, and packaging, electronic circuits, medicinal and pharmaceutical applications among others. The second edition features revisions that bring the reader up to date on the latest developments in the field. The author combines the theoretical basis of pressure sensitivity with the practical aspects of manufacturing, testing, and use of PSAs. The book offers a comparative look at the engineering of plastics, adhesives, and pressure-sensitives, an indispensable reference for adhesive and polymer chemists and technologists. |
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| | ISBN: 0824750594 Date Published on 4/24/2006 |
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| | In this incredible collection of inspirational photos and ideas, floral designer Preston Bailey shares his invaluable experience of more than 20 years in creating the decor for celebrity and high-profile events and tells how to create an unforgettable wedding for brides and grooms-to-be.
With engaging text, Bailey guides the reader through the process of planning engagement parties and receptions, and explains how to bring diverse yet elegant elements together to compose the stunning environment of ones dreams. Beginning with large decisions, such as choosing a theme and transforming a wide array of spaces to fit the vision, he moves on to the details--centerpieces, arches, place mats, lighting, table settings, and more.
Throughout the book are luxe full-color photographs of nine weddings, with chapters that include a Glorious Glasshouse Fantasy, a Tropical Latin Fantasy, a Modern Metropolitan Fantasy, and a New England Waterfront Fantasy. Also included are nine design motifs from the Signatures by Preston Bailey line. Above all, Bailey encourages anyone planning a wedding, whether large or small, to allow creativity to blossom and have fun while designing their dream event. |
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| | ISBN: 0821228692 Date Published on 5/23/2006 |
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| The book opens with a lively history of printing in various cultures. The story starts with the simple discovery that a relief surface, like the palm of a hand, can be used to make a decorative mark on a flat surface, and leads on to tell of the sophisticated processes which resulted in delicate Japanese prints, fine Indian chintzes and the brilliant achievements of a craftsman like William Morris. Descriptions of the many tools, materials and media which can be used in printing then preface twenty-seven decorating projects, each clearly describing the steps necessary to produce a particular pattern. The projects are illustrated with striking close-up photographs, showing not just the printing processes, but also the luscious textures of the paints, dyes and surfaces employed. The fun of mixing up paints, printing freehand across a length of fabric or watching the magical effect of silk screening is captured in text and photographs as decorative pieces are created and interiors are transformed. The book is a primer for people interested in the visual enrichment and hands-on pleasure that printing can offer - the simple satisfaction, for example, to be found in carving a potato into a stamp and printing it onto paper to produce a wall border or onto fabric to make up curtains. The authors exploit the basic spirit of printed decoration to demonstrate techniques as diverse as lino cutting, woodblocking, stencilling, batiking and tie dyeing - all of which are easily achievable with the guidance and inspiration found here. The result is the most comprehensive practical book ever about this fascinating subject, which demonstrates how, with some knowledge, a little imagination and very little outlay, you can produce an endless variety of original images to decorate your home. |
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| | ISBN: 1854104756 Date Published on 6/19/2006 |
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| | Priscilla Hauser, the "first lady" of decorative painting, gives readers all the advice they need to capture the colors and textures of their favorite fruits and berries, including lemons, strawberries, pears, plums, blackberries, apples, holly, pine sprigs and mistletoe. Starting with an overview of general supplies, she then moves on to the basics, addressing everything from preparing the surface to loading brushes with paint.
Next, Priscilla guides painters through nine wonderful projects--each one thoroughly illustrated with detailed, step-by-step photos that enable them to copy her every stroke. They'll learn to paint fruits and berries on everything from wooden plates and bowls to mini wheelbarrows, candles and more!
* Priscilla Hauser is one of the most well-known and respected decorative artists and teachers in the world
* 9 beautiful projects include clear, step-by-step photos and instructions |
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| | ISBN: 1581800703 Date Published on 5/1/2006 |
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