Download or read book George Clarke s Home Bible Extensions written by George Clarke and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ROOM BY ROOM series is a set of short essential guides to transform your house into your ideal home. Each one is full of top tips and golden rules from award-winning architect and TV home-improvement guru George Clarke. From designing layouts, budgeting and lighting advice, through to storage solutions, tricks of the trade, finishes, materials and a fully comprehensive resources guide, these guides will fully equip you with all the information you need to improve the space you live in. For novices and experts alike, this is the one-stop guide to creating the best extension for your home.
Download or read book The Home Decorator s Color and Texture Bible written by Adrienne Chinn and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to 180 effective combinations of color and texture with side-by-side swatches including flooring, paint colors and accents, fabric for furnishings and drapes, and surface colors, textures and materials.
Download or read book George Clarke s Home Bible Living Rooms written by George Clarke and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ROOM BY ROOM series is a set of short essential guides to transform your house into your ideal home. Each one is full of top tips and golden rules from award-winning architect and TV home-improvement guru George Clarke. From designing layouts, budgeting and lighting advice, through to storage solutions, tricks of the trade, finishes, materials and a fully comprehensive resources guide, these guides will fully equip you with all the information you need to improve the space you live in. For novices and experts alike, this is the one-stop guide to getting the best out of your living room.
Download or read book George Clarke s Home Bible Kitchens Dining Area written by George Clarke and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ROOM BY ROOM series is a set of short essential guides to transform your house into your ideal home. Each one is full of top tips and golden rules from award-winning architect and TV home-improvement guru George Clarke. From designing layouts, budgeting and lighting advice, through to storage solutions, tricks of the trade, finishes, materials and a fully comprehensive resources guide, these guides will fully equip you with all the information you need to improve the space you live in. For novices and experts alike, this is the one-stop guide to getting the best out of your kitchen and dining room.
Download or read book George Clarke s Home Bible Bedrooms and Loft Conversions written by George Clarke and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ROOM BY ROOM series is a set of short essential guides to transform your house into your ideal home. Each one is full of top tips and golden rules from award-winning architect and TV home-improvement guru George Clarke. From designing layouts, budgeting and lighting advice, through to storage solutions, tricks of the trade, finishes, materials and a fully comprehensive resources guide, these guides will fully equip you with all the information you need to improve the space you live in. For novices and experts alike, this is the one-stop guide to getting the best out of your loft conversion.
Download or read book Handmade Tile written by Forrest Lesch-Middelton and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handmade Tile is a contemporary guide for ceramic artists and anyone interested in custom tile installations—from making, designing, and decorating to designing your space and installation. No matter how many years of experience you have as a ceramic artist or how many home-improvement projects you've tackled, nothing prepares you for the unique world of ceramic tile. From concept and design, through firing and installation, ceramic tiling is one of the few places in a home where art is permanently installed as a feature of a room. In Handmade Tile, Forrest Lesch-Middelton shares everything he's learned as the founder and owner of the custom tile business FLM Ceramics and Tile. From his years as a one-man operation to his current production facility, Forrest has seen it all and helps you every step of the way. Whether you want to make your own tile, or want to use artistic and custom-made tile in your home, this book has everything you need. Key features of the book include: Making Tile: key tools, rolling, cutting, extruding Decorating: glazes, image transfer, cuerda seca, underglaze, slip Designing Your Space: tile in context, choosing your tile, codes and standards Installation: removing old tile, backing, preparing surfaces, setting, grouting Galleries and interviews with today's top workings artists in tile round out the package. Featured artists include Allison Bloom, Boris Aldridge, Disc Interiors, PV Tile, and more.
Download or read book The Original Dog Bible written by Kristin Mehus-Roe and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wooftasticsecond edition. “This attractive, copiously illustrated easy-to-understand volume covers every aspect of responsible dog ownership.” —Library Journal The revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling The Original Dog Bible remains the most comprehensive dog lover’s resource on the market! The book is divided into eight parts—each fully illustrated and designed for easy reference—plus helpful, entertaining sidebars covering hundreds of related topics. With detailed chapters on the requirements of caring for a dog, health, training, and so much more, this book will prepare you for a wonderful life with a dog. Also included is a catalog of over 250 purebred dog breeds with insightful articles for each! “Being a veteran veterinarian of twenty five years and a lifetime pet lover, I can enthusiastically say ‘this old doc learned new tricks’ upon reading the consummate book on all things dogs . . . I highly recommend it!” —Dr. Marty Becker, former resident veterinarian on ABC’s Good Morning America and coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s Soul “This comprehensive book certainly lives up to its subtitle . . . The best part of the book, however, covers ‘life with a dog,’ with sections on pet care partners like sitters and walkers, emergencies, lost dogs, biting, traveling with a dog, and a fantastic chapter on activities one can do with one’s dog.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book More Period Details written by Judith Miller and published by Clarkson Potter Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoring a home is a gratifying and pleasurable experience, especially when the renovations maintain the original character of the building. Whether you long for a traditional marble fireplace or solid brass doorknobs, colorful stained glass for the front door or tiles for the hallway, installing these original features will bring character to your home and add thousands of dollars to its value. In More Period Details, best-selling author Judith Miller guides you through every type of interior fixture and fitting, from large elements such as doors, windows, and stairs to small details such as locks, hinges, and grates. Exterior details, such as front doors and porches, are also featured. The book focuses on both town and country homes from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, with the greatest emphasis on the styles and dwellings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including American Colonial, Victorian, Art Deco, and Georgian. Miller offers advice on how to date a house; how to buy and restore original items; and how to identify which interior and exterior features should be replaced or added. And with the growing number of quality reproductions available, period details are not limited to rare, expensive antique pieces. With more than 800 full-color examples of original and reproduction period fixtures and fittings, plus a comprehensive directory of manufacturers and craftsmen, More Period Details is an essential purchase for anyone planning to restore or renovate a period property. This completely new book by Judith Miller, author of the classic best-seller Period Details, will enable you to successfully restore or renovate a house using detailsthat match the building's original design. With 800 color photographs of original and reproduction pieces, More Period Details is an authoritative, practical guide to re-creating an authentic period look in your home.
Download or read book Design Sponge at Home written by Grace Bonney and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited home décor bible by the beloved design blogger “Thank you,” wrote a reader to Design*Sponge creator Grace Bonney, “for teaching me that houses don’t have to be frumpy and formal. They don’t have to be matchy-matchy or rigidly modern.” They can just be comfy and unique and reflect who you are, no matter how small your budget or space. That reader is one of the 75,000 unique daily visitors to Design*Sponge, who make it the most popular design site on the web. The site receives 250,000 pageviews every day and has 150,000 RSS subscribers and 280,000 followers on Twitter. Design*Sponge fans have been yearning for the ultimate design manual from their guru, Grace, and she has finally delivered with this definitive guide, which includes: • Home tours of 70 real-life interiors featuring artists and designers • Fifty DIY projects, with detailed instructions for personalizing your space • Step-by-step tutorials on everything from stripping and painting furniture to hanging wallpaper and doing your own upholstery • Fifty Before & After makeovers submitted by readers of Design*Sponge—real people with limited time and realistic budgets • Essential tips on modern flower arranging, with 20 arrangements With over 700 color photos and illustrations and projects that are customizable, relatable, and affordable, this is the democratizing design book everyone has been waiting for—and all for only $35.00!
Download or read book The Interior Design Handbook written by Frida Ramstedt and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new comprehensive bible of interior design, from a home styling guru who has coached an entire Scandinavian generation in the art of creating a harmonious home. Frida Ramstedt believes in thinking about how we decorate, rather than focusing on what we decorate with. We know more today than ever before about design trends, furniture, and knickknacks, and now Frida familiarizes readers with the basic principles behind interior and styling—what looks good and, most of all, why it looks good. The Interior Design Handbook teaches you general rules of thumb—like what the golden ratio and the golden spiral are, the proper size for a coffee table in relation to your sofa, the optimal height to hang lighting fixtures, and the best ways to use a mood board—complete with helpful illustrations. Use The Interior Design Handbook to achieve a balanced, beautiful home no matter where you live or what your style is.
Download or read book Old House Interiors written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National architectural magazine now in its fifteenth year, covering period-inspired design 1700–1950. Commissioned photographs show real homes, inspired by the past but livable. Historical and interpretive rooms are included; new construction, additions, and new kitchens and baths take their place along with restoration work. A feature on furniture appears in every issue. Product coverage is extensive. Experts offer advice for homeowners and designers on finishing, decorating, and furnishing period homes of every era. A garden feature, essays, archival material, events and exhibitions, and book reviews round out the editorial. Many readers claim the beautiful advertising—all of it design-related, no “lifestyle” ads—is as important to them as the articles.
Download or read book Home Decorating Manual written by Julian Cassell and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redecorating your home, as well as helping to maintain the fabric of the property, allows you to capitalise on the most attractive features of your house and gives you the opportunity to create a particular style or look. Materials for exterior use should protect and preserve as well as improve appearance The Home Decorating Manual will help you translate your ideas into reality, whether it's re-tiling your bathroom (removing old tiles, working out quantities, cutting and tiling difficult spaces), painting your windows (stripping old paint, preparation, what types of paint to use) or wallpapering a bedroom (measuring, matching patterns and cutting). The Home Decorating Manual, which is written by professional decorators, explains the fundamental principles underlying successful home decoration. It breaks down a wide variety of decorating projects into manageable stages, with easily followed instructions and clear step-by-step colour photographs explaining each stage in the process. Giving suggestions on colour choices and details of the tools and materials that you will need, as well as comprehensive information on how to undertake the task itself, the book is designed to take the mystery out of even seemingly complex home decorating jobs.
Download or read book Happy Starts at Home written by Rebecca West and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use your home as a tool to make better changes happen in your life. Through aligning your heart, home, and health, experience first-hand how small changes make a big difference. What does it take to be happy at home? It's not about buying or not buying a new sofa. It's about whether your home is working for you in the best way. Your home can directly improve your well-being and contentment with better health, sleep, and relationships, and ultimately decrease your stress levels to increase your all-round happiness. Design expert Rebecca West helps you to learn how to achieve a geographical cure without actually relocating and how to redecorate so you can feel best in your space. Along with beautiful photographs, there are a variety of self-assessment activities to connect your financial, emotional and physical health to your space to ensure it nurtures your vision – and while doing so, investing your time and money more effectively too. With the valuable advice in Happy Starts at Home, you can commit to a philosophy of buying fewer things and doing more to discover what's holding you back, in order to find joy and create a home that makes you smile.
Download or read book Public Library Catalog written by Juliette Yaakov and published by H. W. Wilson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In librarian's office.
Download or read book Interior Design written by Corky Binggeli and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the history of interior design to professional development, this guide completely covers the process of interior design - the development of a design concept, analysis of built spaces, programming and functional relationships, space planning, and design development presentations.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interior Design Close Up written by Dominic Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book is a style bible for anyone interested in design and the home. It is arranged into ten distinct chapters, each one concentrating upon a specific interior style or theme. Each chapter is illustrated with ten evocative houses or flats, whose aesthetic essence is captured within an opening double-page spread concentrating on the most spectacular space in the home. Its story unfolds in the accompanying text, and design elements and individual features are picked out in more detail on the following pages. Each entry provides an in-depth discussion of an engaging space - including bedrooms, bathrooms, dining rooms, kitchens, living rooms and much more - that illustrates the theme of the chapter plus individual stylistic ideas particular to the featured homes. Along the way key design ingredients are explored and explained, from materials through to furniture design, texture through to pattern and light. From Art Deco to modernism, analyses of design styles and references are woven into the mix. Full of inspiration, information and ideas, Interior Design Close Up will draw in anyone looking for a source book for their own space.
