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| | Traditional style kitchens blend convenient modern amenities with details that invoke a sense of history, craftsmanship, permanence, and warmth -- including painted and distressed finishes, furniture-grade cabinetry, natural textures, and concealed appliances. Early American, Colonial, Victorian, Shaker, and Arts & Crafts, in addition to Traditional Country and Farmhouse kitchens are shown in over 150 gorgeous color photos. Hundreds of ideas in cabinetry, hardware, light fixtures, appliances, and flooring are featured. Whether you're restoring or renovating a historical home, or want to add nostalgic charm to your contemporary kitchen, this book will provide inspiration with so many Traditional style kitchen designs right at your fingertips. |
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| | ISBN: 0764322850 Date Published on 8/21/2006 |
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| | Early textile dyers signed oaths that they would not reveal any of the process. Fortunately, author Carolyn Dahl openly shares the secrets of dyeing, painting, and patterning beautiful cloth she has gleaned in art schools. This guide is the next best thing to having a master artist in the studio.
Entertaining stories awaken memories of childhood coloring books, leaf prints, iron-on designs, and the tie-dyed T-shirts most of us experienced at some point in our lives. Readers will be inspired as they follow step-by-step photographs and instructions full of hints and secrets for using luminous color to transform white cloth into artistic masterpieces. Connoisseurs of the decorative arts and those who are merely curious about the fabrics they wear and use in everyday life will find much to interest them.
* Produce successful results without an instructor * Author relates own experiences, telling why a technique is done, giving more control to the dyer * Contains lots of fresh ideas |
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| | ISBN: 0873496167 Date Published on 5/3/2006 |
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| | Your kitchen and bathroom are the most hardworking rooms in your home.But todays well-designed kitchens and bathrooms are much more than efficient arrangements of fixtures and fittings.Top designers treat them as living spaces and carefully consider how they connect to other areas of your home. Trends Very Best Kitchens and Bathrooms opens the door on a selection of our most inspirational designs. It is an indispensable sourcebook of ideas and information to help you create a kitchen and bathroom that will enhance your home and lifestyle. Each project is lavishly illustrated with large photographs, and the text give and easy-to-read account of what the homeowner and designer set out to achieve. With more than 50 editions in six countries, Trends magazine has a strong reputation for innovative ideas on home dcor combined with beautiful, lush photography.Now the editors have created Trends Very Best Kitchens and Bathrooms, which showcases the very latest designs in home dcor. Trends magazine has been publishing US editions for 9 years Trends magazine sells over 2 million copies annually in the US |
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| | ISBN: 1933405104 Date Published on 8/18/2006 |
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| | The distinctive and beautiful rugs still made by peoples of tribal origin in the Americas, Asia and North Africa have become widely sought-after for their highly decorative and functional role in enlivening today's interiors. In this clearly written, reasonably priced, comprehensive guide, the buyer is at last armed with indispensable and completely independent advice. |
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| | ISBN: 0500278970 Date Published on 5/11/2006 |
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| | James Opie covers the weavings of the nomadic and village-dwelling peoples of Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, and describes the ancient roots of tribal weaving and the significance of their common patterns and traditions. In his discussion of the origins of tribal weaving, he follows the history of ancient and traditional designs to the present, and provides illustrations with diagrams that enable the reader to identify the relationships between the patterns and their makers. |
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| | ISBN: 0821225472 Date Published on 5/11/2006 |
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| | This book paints a fascinating picture, not only showing superb examples of tribal rugs but also the way in which they are woven and the life of the tribes themselves. After many years study of the major rug-making groups, the author is able to describe the rich elements in the design as well as giving technical notes on the weaving so that the text and pictures together form an essential introduction for anyone who knows or cares about rugs. |
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| | ISBN: 156656218X Date Published on 5/11/2006 |
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| | Tribal Rugs: Treasures of the Black Tent is an exploration of one of the most ancient crafts of the world. Beginning with the discovery of the oldest complete rug from the 5th Century BC, the reader is led through the weaving history of the nomadic peoples of Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, right up to the present day. Each chapter introduces a different group of tribes and illustrates the rugs, carpets, kilims and utilitarian bags attributed to their weavers.
Tribal weaving, together with the use of natural vegetable dyes, began its swift decline around the turn of the century under the twin assaults of civilization and commercialism. This book is both a celebration of the woven legacy left by the tribes and a tribute to the skill and artistry of the women who created these wonderful works of tribal art. It is hoped that is will provide an introduction to the novice and excite the more knowledgeable to further study. The book is illustrated throughout with examples of the finest work of each tribe, the majority of the illustrations being preciously unpublished. |
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| | ISBN: 1851492682 Date Published on 5/11/2006 |
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| Think natural, loosen up, pare down, color in, and above all, live well! These are the key words of the new country living, and no home better exemplifies this wonderful philosophy than decorator Tricia Guild's Tuscan farmhouse. A tour around this warm and wonderful home is the centerpiece in a richly photographed look at what defines the best contemporary design. The first section, "A New Attitude," pinpoints the main features of this current approach. Then, the intimate glimpse into Guild's private world, as well as four other houses, spotlights her love of natural materials, her uncluttered arrangements, her loose approach to fabric, and bold use of color--as well as the inspiration she draws from the surrounding landscape. Rooms glow with brightness; her kitchen bursts with fresh produce; inside and out, tables are laid with embroidered cloths, jugs of garden flowers, vibrant mismatched plates, and delicious local foods. Finally, "Living and Entertaining" is an exhortation to fill your world with pleasure, and to bring exuberance not only to your décor and design, but to all you do. None of the ideas is expensive, and every one is innovative, easy, and life enhancing! |
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| | ISBN: 185029903X Date Published on 5/2/2006 |
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| | Since 1950, most American homes have been built with plain clamshell molding, narrow colonial molding, or no molding at all, leaving the interior architecture naked and uncelebrated. Trim Idea Book shows how to change all that and highlights a wide range of styles, from 21st-century designs, including craftsman, natural, and minimalist, to period and period-inspired motifs. The book showcases hundreds of ways homeowners can use trim to spotlight and define the interior architecture of their homes — and even to compensate for its shortcomings. Trim can help define spaces that in themselves feel too large and can add volume and dimension to rooms that are otherwise too small. Trim can frame doors and windows, enhancing their presence on walls that have daunting expanses, or hiding construction flaws. Molding and trim — of wood as well as man-made materials — are readily available at home centers as well as traditional lumberyards. Style options are endless. Ideas for walls, ceilings, doors, windows, stairways, and built-ins such as bookshelves, headboards, and fireplace surrounds are all shown. |
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| | ISBN: 1561587109 Date Published on 9/6/2006 |
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