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| The third edition of this bestselling guide to painted finishes includes step-by-step instructions on the latest techniques for painting floors, walls, and furniture. With dozens of new color photogrpahs.
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| | ISBN: 0679742514 Date Published on 5/2/2006 |
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| The New Smart Approach® to Bath Design explains everything a homeowner needs to know to design and decorate a bathroom. Helping readers to think like a professional, this book provides advice for designing a master bath, family bath, kids' bath, and powder room, hiring design and construction professionals, shopping for materials, fixtures, and fittings, space planning, lighting, storage, safety, and decorating with style. |
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| | ISBN: 1580111378 Date Published on 5/29/2006 |
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| Revised and updated, The New Smart Approach to Home Decorating shows you how to decorate every room in your home with the same confidence and flair as a professional designer. Over 425 photographs as well as Smart Tips from professionals reveal the secrets of selecting colors, mixing patterns, adding texture, and arranging furniture. You'll also learn the importance of good lighting and how to add personal touches to your design. |
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| | ISBN: 1580111432 Date Published on 5/25/2006 |
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| | An updated version of a backlist best-seller, The New Smart Approach to® Kids' Rooms offers sensible advice to parents who need help decorating and furnishing their children's rooms. The book presents hundredsof ideas for solving the issues of working with space and color, developing a budget, and selecting age-appropriate design themes. It provides sensible advice for buying a mattress, selecting furniture, and choosing window treatments and flooring. In addition, there are many ideas for organizing play, work, sleep, and storage areas, as well as how to create a room that will be shared by two. Individual, age-specific chapters focus on the needs of newborns, toddlers, young school-age children, and teenagers. 260 lavish color photographs accompany lots of 'Smart Steps' and 'Smart Tips' throughout the book. |
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| | ISBN: 1580111785 Date Published on 9/7/2006 |
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| | The New Smart Approach to® Window Decor offers consumers the latest ideas in window dressings and design. Whether changing the look of a room with window treatments or adding privacy while maintaining the view, the reader will be able to accomplish his or her design goal with the ease of a professional. An abundance of rich color photographs and illustrations offer inspiration and design ideas for curtains, draperies, blinds, and shutters. Accents such as valances, swags, and cornices, as well as decorative and functional hardware and accessories, are also included. |
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| | ISBN: 1580111718 Date Published on 5/11/2006 |
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| Here's a beautifully illustrated volume making it possible for apartment or condo dwellers, or those with only a small plot of land, a deck, pathway, or even a rooftop to create a garden in a small space. A creative and practical sourcebook of innovative ideas and simple techniques for transforming a limited space into a gardening oasis.
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| | ISBN: 076210127X Date Published on 9/20/2006 |
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| "No other book packs all the need-to-know basics of oriental rugs into such an economical package. Its an indispensable resource and the best buy of all rug books."
--Mark Hopkins, President
New Boston Rug Society
For the connoisseur or the once-in-a-lifetime buyer, this unique sourcebook is your personal adviser to the lush world of oriental rugs. From the 1500s to the present day, in countries from North Africa to China, Turkey to the former Soviet Union, The Official Price Guide to Oriental Rugs covers it all--including a fascinating historical overview to this exciting area of collecting.
* COMPREHENSIVE. This invaluable guide covers every class of the most collectible oriental rugs of the world, from classical carpets and tribal weavings to rustic rugs and flat weaves.
* PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. Vital information on how to clean and care for your oriental rug (including spot and stain removal) is included, as well as helpful hints on safe storage and various ways to display your collection.
* WRITTEN BY AN EXPERT. Joyce Ware is a distinguished member of the New York and Connecticut rug societies. She has written for Rug News, Oriental Rug Review, and Fiberarts magazine.
* SPECIAL SECTION. An essential resource featuring names of major auction houses and membership societies, including dealer recommendations and carpet restorers and conservators.
* GLOSSARY. An important dictionary to all the key terms and phrases for the rug collector, from Beating Up to Yarn Ply and Twist.
* FULLY ILLUSTRATED. Packed throughout with photographs for easy identification, including a lavish eight-page color insert.
"The beginning rug collector could not do better than to get and read this book. It contains much good information, some timeless, some of current immediacy, all of it valuable. I believe everyone, newcomer and connoisseur alike, will learn from it."
--Dr. John Sommer, President
San Francisco Bay Area Rug Society |
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| | ISBN: 0676600239 Date Published on 5/11/2006 |
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| | The Organized Home strives to bring order and calm to the chaotic, possession-filled lives of today's consumer. With hectic lifestyles, computer passwords, frequent-flyer miles, and thousands of possessions, people are overwhelmed. Society, in general, needs to lighten up, but many find it difficult to part with the stuff that has come to define who we are. The Organized Homed is filled with professional advice, hard-working information, and checklists that help readers get organized. Once that goal is achieved, it shows readers how they can improve their lifestyle to create the organized, peaceful, and beautiful home they desire.
The book walks readers through the organizational process and addresses everything, including how to clear the mind; how to keep what you need and store the rest; how to organize books, magazines, mail, papers, time, money, kitchens, closets, and countertops; and much more.
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| | ISBN: 1592532020 Date Published on 9/2/2006 |
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