Download or read book Decorating a Room of One s Own written by Susan Harlan and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would Little Women be without the charms of the March family’s cozy New England home? Or Wuthering Heights without the ghost-infested Wuthering Heights? Getting lost in the setting of a good book can be half the pleasure of reading, and Decorating a Room of One’s Own brings literary backdrops to the foreground in this wryly affectionate satire of interior design reporting. English professor and humorist Susan Harlan spoofs decorating culture by reimagining its subject as famous fictional homes and “interviews” the residents who reveal their true tastes: Lady Macbeth’s favorite room in the castle, or the design inspiration behind Jay Gatsby’s McMansion of unfulfilled dreams. Featuring 30 entries of notable dwellings, sidebars such as “Setting Up an Ideal Governess’s Room,” and four-color spot illustrations throughout, Decorating a Room of One’s Own is the ideal book for readers who appreciate fine literature and a good end table.
Download or read book Decorating with Books written by Marie Proeller Hueston and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the publishers of House Beautiful comes a book packed with ideas about decorating you home elegantly with all those books you've got lying around or sitting in boxes.
Download or read book Habitat written by Lauren Liess and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stunningly simple, this field guide is a survival book for any budding decorator,” by “famed DC-based interior designer and blogger of Pure Style Home.” (USA Today) Lauren Liess, an interior designer and founder of the popular blog Pure Style Home, fuses her love of design and the great outdoors into all her work. In Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating, Lauren invites readers to bring nature inside by mixing the textures of natural elements such as wood and stone with eclectic groupings of modern and quirky vintage pieces. Readers will be inspired by the unique style of these rooms, which include lovely framed botanical prints and Liess’s own textile patterns inspired by wildflowers and weeds. Divided into three sections, Habitat shows readers the fundamental elements of design, such as color, lighting, and furniture; addresses the intangibles of designing a space, such as aesthetics and creating a mood; and tackles unique room-specific challenges in every part of the house. “Designer Lauren Liess shares her favorite, not-always-conventional ideas for livening up any space with art.” ―Country Living “Habitat looks at incorporating natural textures such as wood into your decorating scheme, along with florals, nature inspired textiles and vintage décor.” ―Real Style Network “Rich with thoughtful advice on how to create livable, comfortable rooms that bring the beauty of the outdoors inside.” ―Garden & Gun
Download or read book Use What You Have Decorating written by Lauri Ward and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauri Ward created a revolution in interior design-the most accessible and affordable approach to decorating ever. In Use What You Have(r) Decorating she shows readers how to do it themselves-quickly identifying the ten most common decorating mistakes, offering simple principles to correct them, and giving DIYers a proven system for making their home look better than they ever dreamed it could. Filled with dramatic before-and-after photos, this guide shows anyone how to turn "ho-hum interiors into inspired spaces without undertaking bank- breaking shopping sprees" (Ladies' Home Journal).
Download or read book Decorating with Style written by Abigail Ahern and published by Quadrille Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget perfection - Decorating with Style gives you the confidence to take risks with interior design, embrace what you love, and fill your home with infectiously fabulous stuff: comforting, inviting and imbued with personality. Decorating Abigail Ahern style is about creating spaces that make you happy - not just buying the latest 'it' chair. According to the internationally renowned interior designer, the most successful homes always have an element of the unexpected. Good taste is wonderful, but without a touch of eccentricity - some tension between spontaneity and rigour, refinement and rebellion - beautifully co-ordinated rooms can leave you cold. Proving that style has nothing to do with money and everything to do with confidence, Abigail goes back to basics to help you determine your own style, then demonstrates how to take interiors to the next level by mixing and layering different styles and eras; injecting intrigue into a room with some maximalist lighting or a decorative rug; playing around with scale, colour and texture to create an enchanting, idiosyncratic vibe. Packed with original ideas, beautiful photography, speedy updates and easy DIY projects - that transform affordable furniture and accessories into something you'd see in a designer showroom - this hip, hands-on guide offers all the tips, tricks and inspiration you need to create a stylish home. For style-conscious girls on a budget, interior design just got fun .
Download or read book Tom Scheerer written by Tom Scheerer and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this, Scheerer's second book, sixteen of his latest projects are featured, including city houses and apartments in New York, Dallas, Houston, and Paris, summer houses in the Hampton's, Nantucket, and Maine, and tropical houses on Harbour Island, Antigua, and Abaco." -- publisher.
Download or read book A Room of Her Own written by Robyn Lea and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the creative women who are living life on their own terms, and the unique living spaces they have designed and inhabit in this lavishly produced volume. Creative practitioners, philosophers, and rebels, the women chronicled in this volume refuse to compartmentalize or neglect any of their talents or interests. Instead, their lives are a canvas for their artistry. We see it in their homes and studios, on their tables, and in their wardrobes. Equal parts biography and interior design study, A Room of Her Own features twenty extraordinary women and takes us on a private tour across the world into their personal and professional domains. Among them are painters, sculptors, writers, chefs, designers, jewelers, curators, makers, and directors. While each woman has navigated a unique path, they are united in their refusal to play by the rules of others. Taking in the likes of the grand, sweeping halls of a castle in the Austrian countryside, a convent-like property in Mexico, and a cozy home on the banks of the Hudson, this book celebrates the homes, philosophies, design aesthetics, and practices of these inspiring multihyphenates.
Download or read book Room Redux written by Joann Eckstut and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to decorate like the pros and discover every rooms potential with Room Redux. Interior designers Joann Eckstut and Sheran James have developed the book that could make their job obsolete. Starting with how to appraise your needs and create a furniture floor plan, and progressing step-by-step toward the big decisionscolors, fabrics, walls, floors, and furniturethe authors friendly, savvy style demystifies the process and frees up the decorator within. Lively and instructive illustrations will empower even novice home decorators to develop their own style, and the fun scrapbook for-mat will keep those creative juices flowing. Tabbed for quick access and complete with graph paper and furniture cutouts for floor plans, plus pockets for clippings, fabric samples, and color swatches, the format is utterly approachable. For renters looking for quick-and-easy fixes as well as homeowners ready to overhaul entire rooms, Room Redux is the one-stop resource for guidance, inspiration, and great results.
Download or read book Veranda A Room of One s Own written by Kathryn OShea-Evans and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a tour of the most exquisite intimate retreats—inside and out. These beguiling, intimate, and restorative spaces are marvels of design. From serenely dreamy bedrooms to charming reading nooks and sophisticated studies, Veranda reveals a spectacular collection of indoor and outdoor havens. Organized by room and function, this gorgeously photographed book presents stunning kitchens with cerused-oak cabinetry, suspended shelves, and Parisian bistro chairs; grand gardens with sculptural benches, hammocks, and riots of foliage; and luxurious dining and living rooms. Throughout, designers reveal how they created and why they cherish these retreats, while “In the Details” sidebars call out elements like curated collections, hidden alcoves, and showstopping entrance halls that add intimacy and uniqueness to these private, personalized hideaways.
Download or read book Decorating Kids Rooms and Family Friendly Spaces written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Healing Environment written by Deborah Kirklin and published by Royal College of Physicians. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a framework for understanding the healing environment - not only that in which health care takes place but also the real contribution that the arts can make to those on a apth of physical or mental healing.
Download or read book Networks of Design written by Jonathan Glynne and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networks of Design maps a new methodological territory in design studies, conceived as a field of interdisciplinary inquiry and practice informed by a range of responses to actor network theory. It brings together a rich body of current work by researchers in the social sciences, technology, material culture, cultural geography, information technology, and systems design, and design theory and history. This collection will be invaluable to students and researchers in many areas of design studies and to design practitioners receptive to new and challenging notions of what constitutes the design process. Over ninety essays are thematically organised to address five aspects of the expanded notions of mediation, agency, and collaboration posited by network theory: Ideas, Things, Technology, Texts, and People. The collection also includes an important new essay on rethinking the concept of design by Bruno Latour, one of the most influential figures in the philosophy and sociology of science and technology and a pioneer of actor network theory, and essays deriving from forum discussions involving designers and designer-makers responsive to actor network theory. Rather than an anthology of previously-published essays, Networks of Design presents work in progress on design theory and its applications. It is the outcome of a live and vigorous debate on the possibilities and actualities offered by actor network led conceptualisations of the relationships and processes constituting design. All the essays, many collaborative, derive from papers presented at the international conference of the Design History Society held at University College Falmouth, UK in the Autumn of 2008.
Download or read book American Beauty written by Thom Filicia and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The professional designer and former star of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" describes his purchase and renovation of a fixer-upper on Skaneateles Lake, where he had fond memories of vacationing as a child.
Download or read book Nell Hill s Rooms We Love written by Mary Carol Garrity and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nell Hill's Rooms We Love, Mary Carol applies her Nell Hill’s principles of design to new challenges. Even though design styles and trends have changed significantly since Nell Hill's Style at Home, the rules that guide her approach to decorating have not. In this book, rediscover those principles at work in four very different houses, in addition to her own home. Throughout the book, various rooms are highlighted that were inspired by the needs of each homeowner and were transformed using Mary Carol’s inspiration and “tricks of the trade.” Homes featured include: A century-old English Tudor in a city neighborhood, reinvented for empty nesters A suburban tear-down that was rebuilt for a growing family A home in the country, newly built but with an old soul A sweeping country manor with one-of-a kind rooms While traveling through these homes, Mary Carol constructs the process and provides readers with the blueprint she uses for discovering personal styles. We hope you will be inspired by these rooms and will come away with creative energy to make your rooms beautiful, functional, colorful, and comfortable. Mary Carol Garrity and her staff at Nell Hill’s work with thousands of customers each year to help them bring their homes to life. Mary Carol’s passion is to work with homeowners to make the rooms in their houses beautiful, colorful, functional, and special. In Nell Hill’s Rooms We Love, Mary Carol shares some of her favorite decorating solutions, showing her readers inside the homes of the clients she has worked with to help them bring their dreams to life. In this book, Mary Carol deconstructs the process that helps her work with the myriad of decorating challenges from her customers. It is a big order to think about redoing a room in a house, committing to a paint color or wallpaper, dozens of yards of fabric, new upholstery, area rugs that you will be living with for a while, and the investment of dollars and time spent on the makeover. Mary Carol demystifies the process by showing us through rooms she loves and calling out details that go into making the room successful. Mary Carol defines success in decorating by working with customers to identify their own personal style. While the stores of Nell Hill’s are packed full of great room settings, tableaus, and both big and little surprises, Mary Carol believes that people have a personal style that is uniquely their own. Her goal is to help you discover your own style by offering some guiding principles for your decisions. Mary Carol’s Guiding Principles: Mary Carol believes that your style comes from mixing old with new, showcasing your keepsake treasures as well as your newly discovered surprises. And she believes in comfort—providing spaces where you can sit down with a book and get cozy or where your guests will find a special amenity waiting just for them. Mary Carol believes that a beautiful room always offers an unexpected delight. She encourages you to bring the outdoors inside, using garden structures year-round in seasonal decorating.
Download or read book Arts Decoration Combined with the Spur written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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