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| | Create a pleasant, safe, and useful haven for baby with The Smart Approach to® Baby Rooms. The latest title in our best-selling The Smart Approach to® series explains all of the aspects of design as they relate to newborns, infants, and toddlers, including how to analyze space, use color, and select furnishings. Other topics that are covered in the book include: sleeping options, an overview of infant-related products from changing tables to baby monitors, storage, safety, and special needs. A series of Smart Steps and Smart Tips throughout the book provide guidance for accomplishing design goals and achieving professional-like results. |
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| | ISBN: 1580111130 Date Published on 9/6/2006 |
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| The sixth title in the best selling Smart Approach series, The Smart Approach to Country Decorating addresses America's most popular decorating style. All loyal fans and converts to the cozy country look will love this book. It is both a useful reference and an inspirational "dream" book. It explores the roots of country and lays the groundwork for creating the look in any home. Through words and pictures, readers will see the details, both interior and exterior, that add up to this well-loved style. The book also surveys a wide menu of timeless fabrics, finishes, and furniture. To sum up the country spirit, there is an ample sampling of country accessories and evocative collections from rustic to refined. Readers familiar with the Smart Approach series will recognize the friendly "Smart Steps" to a professional result, as well as the handy "Smart Tips" scattered throughout the book. Many big, beautiful color photographs invite readers into some of the prettiest country-decorated homes across the continent. |
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| | ISBN: 1580110819 Date Published on 9/4/2006 |
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| The Smart Approach to Kids' Rooms-Planning, Designing, Decorating joins the Smart Approach series, which guides the reader through the process of interior design. This book focuses on the needs of children ranging from newborns to young adults. Topics include: how to work with space and color; develop a budget; select age-appropriate themes, furniture, window, wall, and floor treatments; buy a mattress; organize storage; create safe work, play and sleep areas; and plan a room to be shared by two. Easy tips for adding personality with paint or customizing furniture are accompanied by attractive four-color photography or illustrations. Many beautiful photographs of professionally designed children's rooms give the readers inspiration and ideas to share with their children.
Whether you're a first-time parent or a veteran, if you have kids, you need this book. A collection of original ideas for decorating, furnishing, and organizing space for children of all ages, from newborn to young adult, The Smart Approach to Kids' Rooms offers practical advice on everything from choosing a color scheme to eliminating clutter. Plus, you'll find great tips for putting a personal touch into your plans with easy decorative paint techniques, as well as thoughtful information.
- Easy-to-follow steps guide you through all phases of the design process. Topics covered: assessing the space; planning a budget; working with color; buying furniture; and selecting wall, floor, and window treatments
- Specific guidelines for newborn, toddler, young school-age, and teen-to-adult bedrooms
- Lots of safety tips
- Illustrated solutions to the most common decorating problems
- Over 200 beautiful full-color photographs
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| | ISBN: 1580110274 Date Published on 9/6/2006 |
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| | Creative Homeowners best-selling The Smart Approach to Kitchen Design is updated in an all-new and revised third edition. This book includes inspirational ideas of the latest kitchen styles with an updated chapter devoted to new kitchen appliances and technology. Fantastic ideas from more of Americas best kitchen designers help readersthink like a professional. The latest trends are covered, such as sleek, new European cabinetry. Fully illustrated in gorgeous color photography, The Smart Approach to Kitchen Design also includes popular Smart Steps and Smart Tips, with the latest information about the products, materials, and design know-how that it takes to create anyones dream kitchen. |
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| | ISBN: 1580113176 Date Published on 8/23/2006 |
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| | The latest addition to Creative Homeowners best-selling Smart Approach series, The Smart Approach to the Organized Home is for homeowners who want to learn the principles of effective organization and how the rules apply to every room in the house. The book covers all of the fundamentals of home storage, including the importance of cataloging items accurately for storage, the pros and cons of built-in and retrofit arrangements, and general strategies for locating storage areas. Like other books from the Smart Approach series, Smart Steps and Smart Tips illustrate how these methods apply to individual areas of the home. Packed with full-color photography, this book is essential for readers looking for solutions to their home storage dilemmas. |
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| | ISBN: 1580112528 Date Published on 9/7/2006 |
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| | This lavishly illustrated volume demonstrates that the tradition of Navajo weaving continues to flourish in our time. 83 contemporary masterpieces are illustrated in color, including many examples of ceremonial Chant weaves, accompanied by brief commentaries, full data on the work, and biographies of the weavers. |
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| | ISBN: 0933920873 Date Published on 5/11/2006 |
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| John Templer has written the first theoretical, historical, and scientific analysis of one of the most basic and universal building elements: the stair. Together, these two volumes present a detailed study of stairs and ramps - the art and science of their design, their history, and their hazards.
For the designer and the art and architectural historian, the first volume treats the fascinating history of stairs and their immense influence on the art and science of architecture. It is illustrated with more than 100 photographs from around the world and reviews the literature on stairs (as well as ladders and railings and ramps) from Vitruvius to Venturi. Templer considers the whole play of meanings in the idea of the stair - as art object, as structural idea, as legal prescription, or as poetic fancy - making it clear that the stair is simultaneously an aesthetic, architectonic, ergonomic, and cultural element.
The second volume shows the dangers stairs present. Drawing on twenty years of human factors research on stairs, Templer sets out what is known about slips, trips, and falls and how best to design stairs to avoid their inherent dangers. He discusses the physiological and behavioral relationship between humans and stairs and walkways, the question of gait and slippery surfaces, and the various types of falls and the injuries that result. Perhaps most importantly, Templer proposes the idea of the soft stair, which could substantially reduce the annual epidemic of stair-related deaths and injuries.
John Templer is Regents' Professor of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published extensively on architecture including theory, human factors research, and designing for the elderly and disabled, and is also an expert on legal cases involving bodily injury caused by falls. |
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| | ISBN: 0262200821 Date Published on 10/24/2006 |
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| | An encyclopedia of interior design products.
The Style Sourcebook is the single most comprehensive, up-to-date and visually exciting decorating reference book -- a complete catalog of the best in decorating products and materials. This revised edition has been updated to ensure that discontinued products have been removed and up-to-the-minute products added.
2,300 color photographs cover major design styles such as Gothic, Empire, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Hi-Tech, and Post-Modern. The history and influences of dominant design styles are organized chronologically from Medieval to late 20th century. In each section -- for example, Geometrics: Early 20th century; or Damask & Brocade: 18th century -- readers will find full color photographs of all variety of fabric, tile, paper, wood and flooring.
Entries are wide-ranging, detailed and clearly organized to ensure quick access to the right item. The book is divided into six main sections: - Style Guide - Paints & Finishes - Fabrics - Tiles - Wallpapers - Flooring
Each entry includes purchasing details that list company, design, pattern name/number, available colors, essential measurements, composition, and uses. A glossary and detailed directory of distributors close the book. The Style Sourcebook is an authoritative reference that will be vital to working designers, decorators and stylists as well as to homeowners and design students. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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| | ISBN: 1556706316 Date Published on 7/10/2006 |
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| | An encyclopedia of interior design products.
The Style Sourcebook is the single most comprehensive, up-to-date and visually exciting decorating reference book -- a complete catalog of the best in decorating products and materials. This revised edition has been updated to ensure that discontinued products have been removed and up-to-the-minute products added.
2,300 color photographs cover major design styles such as Gothic, Empire, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Hi-Tech, and Post-Modern. The history and influences of dominant design styles are organized chronologically from Medieval to late 20th century. In each section -- for example, Geometrics: Early 20th century; or Damask & Brocade: 18th century -- readers will find full color photographs of all variety of fabric, tile, paper, wood and flooring.
Entries are wide-ranging, detailed and clearly organized to ensure quick access to the right item. The book is divided into six main sections: - Style Guide - Paints & Finishes - Fabrics - Tiles - Wallpapers - Flooring
Each entry includes purchasing details that list company, design, pattern name/number, available colors, essential measurements, composition, and uses. A glossary and detailed directory of distributors close the book. The Style Sourcebook is an authoritative reference that will be vital to working designers, decorators and stylists as well as to homeowners and design students. |
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| | ISBN: 1552977919 Date Published on 7/7/2006 |
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