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| | From choosing a color scheme to redesigning an entire house, Mary Gilliatt’s Interior Design Course provides a complete step-by-step road map for success. This book is conveniently organized into two sections. Section One, The Basics, provides tested techniques for mastering the main elements of good design: lighting; color; texture and pattern; and scale and balance. It also includes a valuable overview of historical styles, providing the reader with a quick-reference catalog of common design influences.
Section Two, The Specifics, demonstrates an array of creative approaches for walls, windows, floors, and furnishings suitable for any type of room. Readers will discover how to use special paint finishes and fabrics to create exciting wall coverings; innovative ways to bring new life to blinds, curtains, screens, shutters, and other window treatments; tips for choosing the right type of furniture to complete a specific room; and finally, how to combine all these elements together to create a harmonious, one-of-a-kind living space.
Finally, the all-important Finishing Touches section demonstrates how to choose the accessories and extra details that help reflect a particular look or style. Plus, this remarkable guide is packed with lavish photography and clear, insightful text that make it easy for readers to utilize these very same no-fail techniques in their own homes.
Perfect for veteran decorators as well as novices decorating their first home, Mary Gilliatt’s Interior Design Course is the definitive one-stop guide for creating interiors that are beautiful, unique, and totally one’s own. |
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| | ISBN: 0823030466 Date Published on 9/1/2001 |
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| | Building or remodeling an adobe house is an artistic endeavor, with all the satisfaction-and occasional frustration-of any artistic effort. But once you've lived sheltered by adobe walls, you won't want anything else. Introducing the traditional ins and outs of each architectural element-roofs and ceilings, doors, windows, floors, walls, and portals--The Small Adobe House is both an introduction to adobe structures and an idea book for people who want to remodel a classic home or build a new one. Beyond the basics, Reeve and Reck illustrate possibilities for frills, show that any kind of interior decor is accepted by adobe walls, and give examples of contemporary innovations in adobe houses. The final word on the small adobe house is that it combines the best of several elements: comfort, adaptability, tradition, and almost limitless possibilities for expansion and personal expression. Agnesa Reeve's informed commentary and Robert Reck's exquisite photographs combine to create a magical adobe experience. Agnesa Reeve, a historian, is past president of the Historic Santa Fe Foundation. Her writings about southwestern architecture and cuisine have been published in journals, and her books include From Hacienda to Bungalow (UNM Press, 1988) and Cooking with a Handful of Ingredients (Cimarron Press, 1993). She lives in Santa Fe. Robert Reck is a contributing photographer to Architectural Digest and has been published in most of the major architectural journals worldwide, including Architecture, Architectural Record, A+U, and Hauser. He was the lead photographer for the book Santa Fe Style and has significantly contributed to the monographs of many preeminent architects, including Antoine Predock and Robert A. M. Stern. |
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| | ISBN: 1586850652 Date Published on 7/18/2001 |
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| | Silk flowers are the largest section in craft stores, reflecting the popularity and numbers of enthusiasts in this pursuit. This book provides a wide variety of creative projects and innovative ideas for decorating and beautifying their homes using silk flowers. With clear step-by-step instructions, this book makes flower arranging easy, affordable and enjoyable for everyone.
Using an interior decorator approach, projects are geared around creative use of color, season, mood and room placement ideas, including table arrangements, wreaths, candle and flower displays, holiday arrangements, floral swags and baskets, wreaths, topiaries and more. Each project includes a beautiful photo of the finished piece, a complete list of materials needed, and all the step-by-step photos necessary to ensure that the reader succeeds with style!
* Includes 15 beautiful projects
* The clearest and most complete step-by-step instruction currently available
* Emphasizes the use of readily available silk and dried flowers popular in craft outlets everywhere
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| | ISBN: 1581801084 Date Published on 7/1/2001 |
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| | In the summer months and year-round in warmer climates, Americans love spending time outdoors. More and more, people are treating the outdoor spaces on their properties as true extensions of their homes, turning porches, pools, patios, decks, and gardens into outdoor living spaces that serve the same functions as indoor rooms. In The Outdoor Living Room: Stylish Ideas for Porches, Patios, and Pools, acclaimed author Martha Baker offers more than forty-five striking examples of this enlightened approach to outdoor decorating. |
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| | ISBN: 0609606468 Date Published on 6/12/2001 |
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| | Every aspect of life is essentially connected to the bedroom, whether sleeping, talking, making love, praying, crying, or enjoying solitude. The Sacred Bedroom is an inspirational guide to creating a bedroom that is a refuge not only for relaxing but also for restoring health in body, mind, and spirit. The author reveals how this most private room can be used to heal hurts, enhance happiness, and reunite people with the sacred in each day. The book includes tips on how to arrange the bedroom space using feng shui for optimum energy flow; how to incorporate meditation into daily life; how to establish an altar; and how to create a private haven within the home where one can learn how to love and be loved. It also contains inspiring quotations, easy mind and body exercises, and sidebars on ancient customs and scriptural wisdom. |
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| | ISBN: 1577311434 Date Published on 5/10/2001 |
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| | Any parent who has ever decorated a child's room has faced the same challenge: How do you create a stylish, functional space that still allows a kid to be a kid? Kids' Rooms solves that dilemma by offering fresh, original ideas for decorating your child's living space. Beautifully illustrated with 150 vivid photographs, this indispensable guide explores the necessities for making a room fun yet livable, and then brings these ideas to life with eleven great examples. |
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| | ISBN: 0811828417 Date Published on 5/1/2001 |
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| | The enduring appeal of French-country style spans the centuries, a gracious mingling of elegance and ease. After years of largely echoing the furniture, fabrics, and accessories linked with the region of Provence, these days French country is often far removed from the primitive images that hearken back to the early seventeenth century. Room by room, FRENCH BY DESIGN reveals the secrets to creating a contemporary French-country look, including textiles, furniture, floor coverings, window treatments, color palettes, wall treatments and lighting, thus allowing anyone to bring the look home. |
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| | ISBN: 0879059729 Date Published on 4/23/2001 |
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| Creative, Stylish, and INEXPENSIVE Solutions for Creating a HOME
Why spend every dollar you have on decorating? With a little help and creativity, you can turn your apartment into home sweet home without breaking the bank—and you don't have to give up comfort, individual expression, or warmth.
Regardless of you background, budget, gender, or personal tastes, decorating writer Lourdes Dumke will take you on a style-wise yet budget-sensitive tour of your home-to-be and help create your personal palace. Combined with a sprinkle of imagination and a dose of creativity, this helpful guide to making the perfect living space is exactly what you need. You will discover:
·Decorating and furnishing hints for every room
·Unique yet simple ways to unleash creativity
·Practical ideas for the best places to shop on a budget
·Commonsense suggestions for decorating and furnishing with already-owned items
·And much, much more!
The tips and tricks in this book will save you a bundle and turn your apartment into a decorated delight. You're sure to hear "WOW!" again and again from your impressed visitors—as well as from yourself!
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| | ISBN: 0761532471 Date Published on 4/20/2001 |
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| "To truly support us, a home has to stretch beyond its material properties and sustain our complex human needs." This philosophy is at the heart of every environment that acclaimed designer Clodagh creates, and it represents an entirely new and sustaining way to look at interior design.
Total Design is concerned with the experience of living and not simply the look of it. It encourages an ongoing awareness of our surroundings to keep us energized and our shelters alive, not static. Using a process she calls the Four C's, Clodagh reveals how she helps each client envision a project, first by contemplating the space as it is, then by cleansing it of unnecessary items and clarifying the individual's goals, needs, and desires, and, finally, by creating a space that is uniquely his or her own.
In chapters devoted to the senses, nostalgia, small spaces, the influence of nature, melding personal and professional identities, privacy and retreat, and more, Clodagh shows how our relationships to the places and things we've experienced can be used to shape our environments while encouraging continued growth and exploration. Filled with sensual textures and unexpected details, these are vibrant rooms that are at once supremely practical and lushly indulgent. Sections dedicated to materials, lighting, displaying art, and using color illuminate the principles of Total Design. A comprehensive workbook provides a blueprint for putting these principles into practice and setting personal priorities.
At once innovative and timeless, minimal and luxuriant, Total Design is a celebration of homes that are deeply personal and serenely beautiful.
"A home cannot be truly beautiful unless it functions in harmony with who we are. This book is about pleasure: discovering what pleases us and creating an environment that will celebrate those qualities and sustain us."
-- Clodagh
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| | ISBN: 0609605194 Date Published on 4/10/2001 |
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| Western furnishings today range from meticulous leather-wrapped armoires to hand-carved mantelpieces depicting a trout stream or local wildlife. An extraordinary commitment of time plus a pure passion and singular creative vision are the hallmarks of the fine furnishings of the contemporary West. Today's artisans are creating works that are fresh, beautiful, meticulously crafted, sometimes nostalgic, often humorous, and always celebratory of both the region and its traditions. This is COWBOY CHIC. Hardback; 150
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Westward Ho! The Development of Ranch Style Contemporary Expressions of the West Into the Future First Impressions Family Spaces Convivial Places Angles of Repose Places of Rejuvenation At Work and At Play Creative Spaces Cowboy Chic Collection Directory & Sourcebook
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| | ISBN: 0879059621 Date Published on 3/20/2001 |
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