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| | Well known for her gorgeous design and style books, bestselling author Diane Dorrans Saeks now brings her flair for breathtaking interiors to a new series with a practical twist and a great price, the California Design Library. Starting with the kitchen and living room and featuring inspiring color photographs throughout, each edition focuses on one home area, setting the trend for homes around the country and offering ideas, examples, and tips from the professionals on everything from selecting a great sofa to choosing the right countertops. Diane Saeks consulted with designers, decorators, architects, savy homeowners, and, for Kitchens, even some of the country's best chefs, to discover the most exciting, livable, and innovative ideas in design today. Including big ideas for small spaces and advice on how to avoid common pitfalls, the California Design Library makes the comfortable elegance of West Coast style a perfect fit for almost any setting, wherever you live. |
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| | ISBN: 0811813096 Date Published on 8/1/1997 |
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| | Lavish photography and excellent decorating advice point the way to an exciting new living room, no matter whether you live in a small studio, a large loft, or a sizable home. With this book’s focus on fabrics, floors, focal points, and lighting, it’s easy to fashion a flawless space. Set up cozy corners; make an impact with soft furnishings; add tantalizing textures; install dividers; arrange furniture to establish individualized areas. There’s something for every taste. |
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| | ISBN: 1843301857 Date Published on 3/28/2004 |
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| | Decorating decisions for today's living and dining rooms are rooted first in our lifestyles. How the room is going to be used will govern everything from the type and style of furnishings, window treatments and lighting, to the colors on the wall. No matter what your situation, formal or casual, open concept or divided spaces, bestselling author and dynamic TV host Debbie Travis offers enduring styles with 60 stunning projects that will transform your living and dining spaces into the favorite rooms in your home. |
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| | ISBN: 0609805509 Date Published on 10/16/2001 |
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| "The narrating voice in Living Room is insistent but quiet, though it sometimes achieves loudness without any apparent effort. At other times it seems to continue in the -reader's mind even after stopping for the day. It is an important new presence, faintly disturbing and endlessly attractive."-John Ashbery
Readers may be voyeurs, but the subtler gifts are not for the fast glancers. Take a good slow second look at Geoff Bouvier's Living Room . . . bravura performances, both accessible and elegant, both immediate and subtle, both hilarious and serious. . . . With virtuoso reversals, switches of vantage, changes of scale, inside-outings, they accomplish metaphysical, not only physical, effects.-from the introduction by Heather McHugh
Each of Geoff Bouvier's prose poems brims with industry and restless attention, and the dramas they contain are manifold. Here a solitary mind and there a whole social sphere are cross-sectioned for observation at moments rife with emotional collisions-awesome tediums, mad reliefs. In style and substance, Living Room enacts the urgency one feels to stretch out against cramped quarters. Introduced by Heather McHugh. |
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| | ISBN: 0971898189 Date Published on 9/1/2005 |
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| | Contemporary Asian Living Rooms takes you into 50 of Southeast Asia’s most inspiring homes and hotels. Dozens of beautiful interiors, displayed in more than 150 full-color photographs, provide the most up-to-date design ideas. Created by some of the leading talents in contemporary Asian design today, these interiors feature creative shapes, contours, materials, and new ways of working with the space where family and friends spend most of their time. An excellent volume for browsing, and a perfect source book for ideas. |
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| | ISBN: 0794601790 Date Published on 3/15/2005 |
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| Instead of leafing through a plethora of magazines for Living Room decorating ideas, now you can find all the inspiration and useful advice you'll ever need in one book - 101 Living Rooms, containing 101 themes for your living room, each illustrated with a full-page photograph of a fully decorated room. In fact, with the titles in this series, you can find ideas for every room in the house! The first four titles feature Bedrooms, Living Rooms, Kitchens and Bathrooms are guaranteed to help you find the look that you want. The 101 living rooms are grouped by style: Contemporary - Classic - Country - Creative - Around-the-World - Laid-back
Each room is illustrated with a full-color photograph and accompanied by invaluable information on the specific features of the room, including color, lighting, accessories and flooring. There is a directory of useful suppliers at the back of the book you'll have everything you need to recreate the look for yourself. So whether you're planning a complete transformation or simply looking for quick facelift ideas, the 101 series will help you create the home of your dreams. |
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| | ISBN: 1592580068 Date Published on 5/25/2003 |
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| | Colors for Living: Living Rooms offers the first full-color guide concentrating on the use of color in the living room. This book combines beautiful interior images with color swatches to help the professional and the amateur achieve the mood or feeling they want in the living room.
--Includes up-to-date colors for living room design as determined by experts in the field of color trends.
--Exciting and varied photographic examples of living room designs from around the world.
--Color swatches provide professional 2-, 3-, and 4-color combinations.
--Easy-to-follow guidance on the basics of color theory and living room design gives the reader a vocabulary of schemes that fit their own design needs.
--Includes a full set of tear-out swatches for easy color matching. |
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| | ISBN: 1564965538 Date Published on 11/1/1998 |
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| Usually the first room to greet guests, the living room is not only the most public area of any home, but also its most multifunctional. This essential room fills a variety of roles—from entertainment center to study area, children’s play zone to library, not to mention serving as the family’s gathering space, complete with couch and coffee table. Now Chris Casson Madden, nationally renowned design expert and author of Bedrooms, Getaways, and A Room of Her Own, imparts a wealth of decorating expertise in her new book, Chris Casson Madden’s New American Living Rooms. Showcasing a dazzling array of some of the most beautiful rooms across the country, Madden proves that living rooms can be at once practical, inviting, and inspiring.
Living rooms often present unique design challenges: they can range from great rooms with fifteen-foot-high
ceilings that stretch across half the house to small spaces that relate awkwardly to the rest of the home. In addition, the multifunctional character of these areas makes them all the more complex. Yet Madden highlights a myriad of design solutions that can make decorating this room painless, even pleasurable. She offers options and ideas to suit many tastes—whether you favor sleek, modern styling or old-world elegance, Asian-inspired elements or classical influences.
With homes from California to Connecticut, New Mexico to Maine, the book features nearly two dozen extraordinary living rooms. For large, open spaces, Madden offers creative ways to integrate all the activities of a living room, dining room, family room, library, bar, and study. She examines spaces that open onto gardens, pools, kitchens, or play areas and others that are centered around musical instruments, entertainment units, art, or books. She offers terrific ideas for handling storage and equipment problems and shows how the same room can be used for quiet time, family time, and entertaining.
Ultimately, Madden presents living rooms that are gorgeous, at times even luxurious, while remaining comfortable, nurturing, and appropriate for the families who use them—a difficult balance to strike, but it’s what makes Chris Casson Madden’s New American Living Rooms the essential guide to decorating these rooms for real life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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