Download or read book Design Secrets Furniture written by Laurel Saville and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in Paperback! Furniture design is a complex art. Traditionally, techniques of the craft have been passed down from master to apprentice, but these days that is less and less the case in contemporary design. Students are now required to take courses and figure out much of it themselves. This book, as with others in the Design Secrets series, takes readers into the studio and reveals tips and techniques as well as the inspiration that brought the concept to life. Many graphic and product designers are crossing into furniture design, including Karim Rashid, a designer of product, space, light, and fashion, and Todd Oldham, a photographer, graphic designer, product designer, interior designer, and influence in film/video and TV. Oldham is now the star designer at Lazy Boy-a company that has experienced a remarkable rebirth and revamp. Design Secrets: Furniture shadows similar success stories by showcasing award-winning furniture designs from around the world. Each profile is complete with sketches, notes, and interim iterations revealing how the final piece came to be.
Download or read book Design Secrets written by Kit Kemp and published by Hardie Grant Books. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Design Secrets, hotelier and interior designer Kit Kemp shares her ideas and inspiration for creating the perfect space. Kit covers a range of topics, from specific advice on how to dress a shelf, choose curtains and create a collection to ideas on how to get inspired. She also offers solutions to common design problems, including how to decorate a small space, choose colour and bring light to a dark room. All of this will be illustrated with images from Kit's stunning hotels and personal projects. An essential for lovers of interior design, Design Secrets is full of exciting ideas on how to update your space and make your house a home.
Download or read book Secrets of a Stylish Home written by Cate Burren and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice for interior decoration projects, discussing the importance of finding a style, planning a layout, using color, creating a scheme, and managing a project, with plans and photographs to illustrate design ideas.
Download or read book Woodworker s Guide to Furniture Design written by Garth Graves and published by Penguin Random House LLC (F&w Media). This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a woodworker for fellow woodworkers, this book will teach how to get great designs out of readers' heads and into working drawings. They will create original furniture that is strong, attractive, and well-proportioned. Includes information on how to develop a design philosophy; how to apply standards of size, shape and style; how to select the proper materials and tools; and more.
Download or read book Frank Fontana s Dirty Little Secrets of Design written by Frank Fontana and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interior design is difficult enough without the added stress of doing it on a budget. Frank Fontana—nationally renowned design expert and guru of low-cost, high-style design—is HGTV’s go-to guy for chic makeovers on a dime. In a witty, conversational tone, Fontana shares his techniques, breaking down the process room by room, project by project, and divulges his secret tips and tricks for how to create high-style homes the low-cost way. Fontana analyzes several beautiful homes, dissects the individual design components of each room, and applies his “Look for Less” principle to help readers build their own look on a budget. The book also includes DIY projects that are accessible and doable for readers of various skill levels, as well as advice on how to be a savvy shopper when looking for home decor items or furniture.
Download or read book Secrets of Home Staging written by Karen Prince and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential DIY Guide to Home Décor and Home Staging “…a must-read when selling your home. This book is a beautiful tutorial that will help you sell your home faster.” ―Cassandra Aarssen, professional organizer and author of The Clutter Connection #1 New Release in How-to & Home, House Plans, and Project Management Are you overwhelmed by the idea of home staging? Don’t know what to do or where to start? In Secrets of Home Staging, award-winning home stager, Karen Prince, guides you through the home staging process with easy home décor ideas, design tips, and advice on how to stage your home to sell. Home staging made simple. Secrets of Home Staging isn’t just an indispensable guide for the everyday homeowner, it’s also geared to realtors and those committed to real estate investing and flipping houses. With potential home buyers pre-shopping homes online and dismissing many of them in as little as three seconds, it is essential your home is staged to look its best. Secrets of Home Staging helps you navigate the home staging process with an easy-to-follow guide. For fans of Joanna Gaines and the real estate world. No matter what your house plan, Secrets of Home Staging offers home interior design advice and tools you need to make your home look great online and in-person. Featuring over 150 color photos, and many practical house interior design tips, Karen gives home sellers everything they need to receive more offers, faster sales, and higher selling prices. Inside you’ll find before-and-after photos and information on easy DIY home improvements that buyers love, project management tips, and: • The 6 steps to successful home staging • Decluttering and decorating ideas that sell • How to determine your “key” rooms If you enjoy real estate books, interior design books, or home decor books─like Elements of Style, Home Body, Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Habitat, Inspire Your Home, or The Book on Flipping Houses─you’ll love Secrets of Home Staging.
Download or read book The Design Secrets written by Jill Daley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is about spreading knowledge of what is possible through the application of Design Secrets that can ultimately improve the life experience in all aspects of one's life. A well-designed space can help one's emotions but can also have a positive effect on one's relationships, health, and finances. The Design Secrets is a comprehensive guide that will teach you how to create beautiful and functional spaces that reflect your style and personality while also promoting a positive and healthy lifestyle. The book covers a wide range of topics, including color theory, lighting, furniture arrangement, and architectural details, and provides practical tips and advice on how to incorporate these elements into your own design projects. Whether you're an aspiring designer, a homeowner looking to revamp your living spaces, or simply someone who appreciates good design, The Design Secrets is an essential resource that will inspire and guide you towards creating a better and more fulfilling life through the power of design. So why wait? Order your copy today and start transforming your home and your life with the secrets of great design!
Download or read book Fine Woodworking Design Book Eight written by Scott Gibson and published by Fine Woodworking Design. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woodworkers use these books as a source of inspiration and project ideas. Interior designers and architects use them as a means to keep up with the latest trends in furniture design. The series has been published since 1977, to date, seven Design Books have been published, the last in 1996. The series is being expanded in response to reader requests. Past design books were basically a catalogue of woodworking projects selected by a panel of experts. "Design Book Eight" will depart from that tradition by featuring fewer examples, but offering design talk about each piece as well as detail shots. The book is organized by class of furniture: Tables, Chairs, Desks, Cabinets, Book cases, Home Entertainment Furniture, Beds and Bureaus.
Download or read book Design Rules written by Elaine Griffin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the Gold Medal in the Living Now Awards-Home Improvement The essential do-it-yourself guide from one of the top designers in the country that uncovers the secret home design rules used by the pros Many design books are filled with lavish photography of perfect rooms that most of us can only dream of re-creating. Without any practical advice, the look is unattainable. That's where Design Rules comes in. Here, Elaine Griffin, one of the country's 100 top designers (House Beautiful), explains all the practical decorating standards that professionals use behind the scenes to create flowing, balanced, gorgeous design. Packed with helpful illustrations and hundreds of step-by-step tips, Design Rules includes essential advice such as: ?Pick a pleasing color palette (that really works) ?Correctly size their bedsize tables (so they don't tower over their beds) ?Enhance the visual appeal of windowless rooms (so they're not dungeons) ?Design furniture arrangements that function and flow ?Style up even the most forlorn kitchens, baths and yes, basements and laundry rooms (honey, no space is too dreadful to be made ultra fab) ?Brighten up their kitchens with a can of paint and a burst of strategically- placed color (location, location, location!) ?Figure out which styles of furniture go together (there is a rule and it's easy!) ?Make their own personalities shine throughout their homes (because they should) ?And oodles more! Design Rules is for the growing number of savvy, novice home designers who are well-versed in what good design looks like, but need advice on how to translate it into their own home. It is the home design bible people have been waiting for.
Download or read book Furniture Makes the Room written by Barb Blair and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen before-and-after furniture projects to create statement pieces—and tips on how to build a room around them: “As useful as it is beautiful.” —Justina Blakeney, New York Times–bestselling author of Jungalow Knack Studio founder Barb Blair is famous for her knack with furniture—spotting classic pieces and transforming them into modern showstoppers. In this inspiring book, Blair goes beyond the nuts and bolts of furniture refinishing to show how to style rooms with each customized piece. For instance, she transforms a well-worn coffee table with a painted ombré design, and then reveals how to incorporate it into a bright and sunny den, a cozy reading nook, and a cheerful bedroom. With instructions for fifteen before-and-after furniture projects—dressers, tables, beds, armoire, and more—in Blair’s signature bold style, a “toolbox” section detailing her favorite techniques and materials, and photos of dozens of inspiring interiors, Furniture Makes the Room unlocks the secrets to decorating livable rooms around statement pieces.
Download or read book Styled written by Emily Henderson and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The ultimate guide to thinking like a stylist, with 1,000 design ideas for creating the most beautiful, personal, and livable rooms. It’s easy to find your own style confidence once you know this secret: While decorating can take months and tons of money, styling often takes just minutes. Even a few little tweaks can transform the way your room feels. At the heart of Styled are Emily Henderson’s ten easy steps to styling any space. From editing out what you don’t love to repurposing what you can’t live without to arranging the most eye-catching vignettes on any surface, you’ll learn how to make your own style magic. With Emily’s style diagnostic, insider tips, and more than 1,000 unique ideas from 75 envy-inducing rooms, you’ll soon be styling like you were born to do it.
Download or read book Design Secrets Product 2 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains fifty design projects, providing a behind-the-scenes look that uncovers the design process used to produce the award winning end results. Each project in this work provides text describing the designer's insights and inspirations, as well as the evolution of the illustrated project. It contains working drawings, sketches, and more.
Download or read book Vern Yip s Design Wise written by Vern Yip and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered exactly how high to hang your artwork? How about the light fixture over your dining table? Do you know how to ideally size a rug for any room, or the best way to arrange your furniture? Trusted designer Vern Yip answers these questions, and more, by revealing the right formulas and measurements that can make any room feel just "right." And once you know these key design principles, you're free to confidently create a home that uniquely celebrates your needs and style. Vern shares his favorite insider tips, and opens his doors to show how he's made them work in his own beloved homes. Vern Yip's Design Wise provides both the inspiration and the clear, essential guidelines you need to create a home that perfectly reflects you.
Download or read book My Passion for Design written by Barbra Streisand and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly five decades Barbra Streisand has been one of the singular figures in American entertainment. From the cabaret to the Broadway stage, from television and film stardom to her acclaimed work as a director, from the recording studio to the concert hall, she has demonstrated that the extraordinary voice that launched her career was only one of her remarkable gifts. Now, in her first book, Barbra Streisand reveals another aspect of her talent: the taste and style that have inspired her beautiful homes and collections. My Passion for Design focuses on the architecture and construction of her newest homes, the dream refuge that she has longed for since the days when she shared a small Brooklyn apartment with her mother, brother, and grandparents. A culmination and reflection of Streisand's love of American architecture and design between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the book contains many of her own photographs of the rooms she has decorated, the furniture and art she has collected, and the ravishing gardens she has planted on her land on the California coast. In addition to glimpses of her homes, Barbra shares memories of her childhood, the development of her sense of style, and what collecting has come to mean to her. My Passion for Design is a rare and intimate private tour into the world of one of our most beloved stars. It will be welcomed by her many fans and all lovers of the great achievements of American design.
Download or read book Elements of Family Style written by Erin Gates and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author and popular lifestyle blogger Erin Gates shares everything you need to know about designing a beautifully stylish—yet practical and functional—family home through candid advice, inspirational ideas, and lessons learned. Loved by her readers for her chic interior designs and frank and funny revelations about life behind the scenes of her picture-perfect blog, bestselling author and designer Erin Gates presents a new book about how to live stylishly amidst the chaos of daily family life. Throughout her career designing homes for families of all kinds all over the country, Erin has always maintained that living with children and pets does not mean that you have to forego nice things. This uniquely personal and practical guide will explain how to create a home that makes you proud and reflects your own style while also being durable, safe, and comfortable for children. It focuses on the spaces families share, those that are dedicated to the kids, and the oft-forgotten retreats for parents. Erin combines honest design advice and gorgeous inspirational photographs with engaging and intimate personal essays about life lessons learned the hard way while struggling with infertility and becoming a mother, managing a business, overseeing her own home renovation, and finding time for her marriage. She’ll share how to store toys so that shared spaces don’t look like a kindergarten, the expensive-looking fabrics that will stand up to a marauding toddler with sticky hands, nursery looks that go beyond blue and pink, and furniture that does not have to be stored during the baby-proofing years. She also showcases the work of other designers she loves who surround parents, children, and their pets with comfort and beauty. Like a best friend who has a knack for style and a taste for fun, Erin opens her front door and invites you into her life and all of its beautiful imperfection.
Download or read book House Beautiful 750 Designer Secrets written by Kate Sloan and published by Hearst Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides 750 decorating ideas from design professionals, covering style, color and pattern, architectural detail, lighting, comfort, fixtures, furnishings, art, storage, outdoor rooms, and other topics, and includes over four hundred color photographs.
Download or read book My 100 Secrets of Interior Design written by Arthur L. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY 100 SECRETS OF INTERIOR DESIGN is a step-by-step perspective that takes the reader from how to do a simple floor plan through furniture layout, lighting, accessorizing, choosing colors, decorating tricks and much more. Written in an easy-to-follow manner, it is laced throughout with diagrams, pictures and amusing anecdotes. Lewis takes the reader by the hand and leads them through the entire decorating/design process. You will learn interior design secrets that can be used to do a single room or an entire home.
