"Design is what you do when you want to express yourself..." if you had time, if you knew how, if you could; you would. But where to start? We all reach a time or place in our life when we look around and no longer feel comfortable in our space; a time when it begins to feel constricting, dark, cluttered or unharmonious. Most people do what they have always done before. You clean it up, move a few things around and maybe even paint; but it's still not perfect, just better than it was. What makes the difference between a house and a home? Design. A house may have all the same furniture, accessories and lighting, but it's not a home. Why? Because a home reflects the personalities and passions of the people who reside there. It feels warm and inviting when you step in the door; you recognize that you are in someone's private space, a refuge. And you instinctively feel the honor of being invited into their private space. And it is an honor. Why doesn't your home feel like that? How do they do that? They claim their space; they embrace it, love it and fill it with personal touches that are a reflection of who they are, what they feel, where they go and what matters to them. Walk through the door of any house and, if you are observant, you can tell who lives there and what's important to them by the placement of furniture, pictures and overall look and feel of the space. Look around your home. Does it reflect you? Can you 'feel' you inside the space? Is it a reflection of your life and loves? 'The 1 Minute Design Manager' is a quick reference guide that takes a minute or less for each pointer that will fill your mind with creative and positive ideas to 'take your space', claim it and own it proudly.

Have you ever wanted to create a fairy tea party and add some magic to your life? This book is a step by step guide that teaches you how to conceive and execute this event, the decor, food, fairy trivia, fairy music, fairy outfits, party activities and more You will create the party of your dreams with lots of imagination and very little cooking.

Let master of Maximalism Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tell you how to create and curate a space that you can truly love spending time in. Changing Rooms' flamboyant lead designer has made a great living out of being himself, having spent his entire career encouraging people to reject decorative modesty. More More More is a rejection of so-called "good taste" that leaves people being so in control of their own home that even life feels out of place within it, and instead celebrates exuberance, lavish living, and individuality. It's all about giving yourself the confidence you lack by curating your own perfect haven of chaos, so that you can live and love your stuff - in surroundings that are anything but beige! With this book, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen will not only explain how to adopt maximalism in the home, but promises to change your outlook on living happily in it. Structured within a complete timeline of maximalism, there's something for everyone to love! Dive into this decor book to discover a whirlwind of topics, including: - The Principles of Layering - Asymmetry - A Tricky Balancing Act - Using Pattern like a pro - Storage - to store or not to store - Collecting vs. Aqcuiring More More More is overflowing with Laurence's signature style, exuberance and a lifetime's experience in lavish living and take-no-prisoners individuality. Part narrative treatise, part visual celebration of Maximalism through the ages, it is rich in history, anecdotes and quite a few rules, most of which are to be broken!. Having spent his entire career encouraging people to reject decorative modesty, he will not only inform the reader how to embrace Maximalism in their home, but promises to change how they live within it. Minimalists beware! A must-have home decor book for Fans of Laurence Llewlyn-Bowen, a new generation of home-owners and renters who want to rebel against the mass-market principles from minimalist as well as those trying to create a healthy work-life environment. Doubling up as the perfect coffee-table book, More More More is sure to delight.

Make your home an intimate retreat that will please your senses and nourish your soul. Here's how to make your home a sacred space... a sanctuary for mind, body, and soul. HOME SANCTUARIES gives you an easy-to-follow, seven-stage process for building personal retreats, altars, and shrines within your home. You will learn how to identify a location, cleanse and sanctify the area, evaluate the balance of energy, assemble materials, and energize your intentions. Specific chapters are devoted to communal rooms, intimate spaces, zones of creativity, and contemplative environments. Hundreds of practical tips and suggestions, insightful stories, and life lessons provide just the guidance you need to implement the ancient principles of feng shui right where you live. Readers who love the books of Denise Linn, Karen Kingston, Nancy SantoPietro, Xorin Balbes, and Tsh Oxenreider will find this book a great companion of equal value. The Alchemy of Intention (From the Introduction) Where intention goes, energy flows. Because of how energy functions, we are each engaged in co-creation with the life force. If you want your life to be sacred, you need to set the intention for it to be so. Setting an intention is like speaking to the Divine through a megaphone: It gets the message across more clearly. This is the true secret behind creating a home sanctuary. Altars and shrines are incredible spiritual tools because they anchor our feelings and thoughts so we become very clear and specific about what we want. Ultimately, whatever we focus on appears in the material world. Creating a sacred space in your home is an opportunity to connect your intimate environment with the realm of the Divine so that your soul is supported and nourished and has freedom to express and flourish.

Home Decorating Basics is a self-help manual with short and concise teaching on the basics of Home Decorating. Its purpose is to give the home-owner tips on how she can more effectively decorate her home. 125 pages of instructional text and black and white illustrations cover topics from designing a furniture layout for a room through to choosing color and fabrics for wall and window treatments and finishing with lighting and accessories. Special consideration has also been given to kitchen and bathroom layout and design. Filled with helpful information, Home Decorating Basics is a worthwhile tool for those who want to decorate with more expertise. Previously published as Interior Design Basics.

Any form of clutter, be it in your home or your life in general, is bad. While clutter in your home constitutes of a home being messy where things are just lying around in an untidy manner, clutter in your life signifies your feelings and approach towards life. A cluttered life would mean your body, mind, and spirit being uneasy with the way things are around you. In such cases you should adopt a more balanced approach towards living your life. For you to be clutter-free, you need to adopt a lifestyle which is similar to that philosophy. Many people ask themselves where they could start from. Until you figure out the answer to that question, your life will remain cluttered. This eBook consists of tips aimed at bettering your overall life and making it more clutter-free.

Five Star Reviews

"I'm the guy. I only get to make suggestions, but when I showed a beach wedding to Nancy, she sure lit up. This book helped me sell it, because there are a few things to take care of that I didn't think of. My big idea: I'd like a yacht docked close by that could take us out on the water as part of the reception. I now see how that's possible. All the pictures gave Nancy some ideas for decorations and design. That is helpful, but the author also gave us her source for the items. I could see the prices immediately, so i could keep her away from the really expensive items....she's watching me write this."

"I absolutely loved this book. It was a fun read and gave me plenty of potential ideas for a beach wedding. I am seriously contemplating switching from a fall wedding to a beach wedding."

"Paris has outdone herself on this book. I have always loved the beach and these wedding themes are perfect. You won't believe how elegant a beach wedding can be. There are ideas for three themes and gorgeous pictures to help you envision your perfect day. From the themes to wedding centerpieces and favors. She even includes a link to make it easier for you to find sources for these great ideas."

Inside Beach Wedding Ideas

Beach weddings are exploding in popularity today because of the romantic and exotic atmosphere the water, sun and the beach create. Destination beach wedding or your own local beach, "Beach Wedding Ideas" unveils three romantic beach wedding themes to make your special day one to remember. Within the themes we cover the wedding ceremony and reception decoration ideas to stimulate your inspiration to bring about your very own unique and exotic beach wedding day

Wedding Decoration Ideas

Paris Kay Hersom has also written Wedding Decoration Ideas which is a great complementary book for Beach Wedding Ideas, and is loaded with romantic wedding decoration ideas to stimulate your inspiration to bring about your very own unique wedding day on the beach or off

This wedding designer guide is essential for everyone wanting to have the most wonderful and romantic wedding without the pit falls and costly mistakes.

So Whats Inside The Book?

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Wedding Decoration Ideas

Chapter 2 - Wedding Reception Ideas - A Few Easy Tips for a Great Day

Chapter 3 - Wedding Ceremony Decorations

Chapter 4 - Creative Juices

Dennison Manufacturing, headquartered in Framingham, Mass., manufactured the first crepe paper in the U.S. and popularized the idea of decorating for all occasions. To encourage this, they issues multiple booklets, including the 1920s-era How to Decorate Halls, Booths and Automobiles using crepe paper.

Creating Space by Niki Schafer is a step-by-step guide to how to design a calm, sane, outrageously gorgeous home and family-life. Inspiring and practical in equal measures it takes you on a journey through the seven spaces of your home creating rooms that work on many levels - aesthetically (outrageously gorgeous), emotionally (calm) and psychologically (sane). This isn't just another pretty interior design book, Creating Space is a guide to understanding how you and your family think and feel. And the design tools taught are as much about family dynamics and the wellbeing of your family as they are about the practical side to creating a home. Niki Schafer is an interior designer, NLP coach and speaker who has lived in more than 100 homes - from New York to Nicaragua to Henley-on-Thames. She runs her own design practice, Dwell-Being, based on the principle of merging design with wellbeing.

The Final Nesting Place takes you on a personal journey of discovery through the connection of key elements in your loved one's life story. The elements are transcribed into a beautiful and unique physical narrative-rich in the meaningful details of their life. This narrative is your loved one's final nesting place. It is a place of sanctuary: a personal refuge which expresses their most important and profound experiences, beliefs, and relationships. When melded together with key elements of interior design, your loved one's final nesting place becomes a private haven in which to rest, reflect, love, and live their end of life.

Recycle, revamp and rejuvenate; with over 50 projects Sarah covers a whole spectrum of imaginative ideas for every room of the house, from blanket curtains to patchwork wallpaper, clever storage crates to fun mobiles for children, as well as unique ideas for dining, sleeping and bathing. Interweaved throughout the book are ideas for 'one thing four ways' to show how the same piece of furniture or a room can be updated with different look, plus handy advice on essential kit and techniques. Aimed at all skill levels, the projects can be completed in a few hours or over a weekend so you can revamp and refurbish your home in no time at all.

As seen on Jay Leno, Jeannie, The Fabric Chef shares her secrets, in this new 61 page, colorful and detailed illustrated how-to craft book. It teaches step by step instructions on how to create beautiful realistic fabric breads that can be made into arrangements for unique home decor. The book is designed similar to a cook book with 5 "recipes" and 6 full sized patterns to choose from. You will be "baking" up a storm once you see how much fun it is to turn fabric into something that looks eatable. Start today and learn this fascinating new craft

A house without a dog is not a home.

Meet Gaspard the Dalmatian who hates the London rain but loves a good sing along to The Antiques Roadshow; jet-setting Rufus and Marni, two wire-haired dachshunds who can often be found sniffing out vintage finds in Brooklyn’s flea markets; or Jack Russell Ollie who enjoys the views of the Eiffel Tower from his gorgeous Parisian apartment.

Featuring big dogs, small dogs, countless rescue dogs and even a few champions, these stunning photographs celebrate the joyful, cherished, chaotic, but never dull life that’s lived with dogs. Each image perfectly capturing that unique relationship between us humans and our beloved pets.

Five Star Reviews

Such Romantic Ideas - Really creative and imaginative ideas that could also be used for decorating ideas for other parties. Very nice pictures and beautiful suggestions to make the day very special. Lots of inexpensive decorations as well

Elegant decorating ideas -We all need decorating ideas from time to time. But if you are planning a wedding, reception or cocktail party, I recommend this book. The author has some wonderful ideas, unique and certainly different - with elegance Great idea book
This book is packed with helpful wedding decoration ideas - Anyone seeking information about wedding decoration ideas could definitely benefit from reading this book. Not only does it contain helpful decoration ideas, but there's also a lot of beautiful pictures that compliment many of decoration ideas provided. This is an excellent wedding book, well worth reading if you're planning a wedding in the near future...

Inside Wedding Decoration Ideas

Two lives joined together...Two hearts that beat as one...And the moment of blush when you promise saying "I Do " The man and woman pledge to live in love forever Your Wedding day truly is a blissful occasion filled with joy, hope and dreams. The ambience and decoration will surely add to this ecstatic moment since these are the most memorable moments which are going to be captured and cherished for a lifetime So let's start by looking at some romantic wedding decoration ideas to stimulate your inspiration to bring about your very own unique wedding day

Beach Wedding Ideas

Paris Kay Hersom has also written Beach Wedding Ideas which is a great complementary book for Wedding Decoration Ideas, and is loaded with romantic beach wedding ideas to stimulate your inspiration to bring about your very own unique wedding day on the beach
This wedding designer guide is essential for everyone wanting to have the most wonderful and romantic wedding without the pit falls and costly mistakes.
So Whats Inside The Book?
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Beach Wedding Ideas
Chapter 2 - Three Themes for the Beach
Chapter 3 - Romantic Sunsets Forever
Chapter 4 - Resources

Learn the technique of decoupage with 30 + fun and creative projects. Decoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects. The book teaches how to apply this to decorate and renew a home, embellish used objects and create new ones.

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Design (Industry, Graphics, Fashion), grade: A, London Metropolitan University, course: FASHION BUYING, language: English, abstract: Topman is a brand from the British international retailer group Arcadia Group holding another eight brands, namely BHS (home), Burton (menswear), Dorothy Perkins (womenswear), Evans (womenswear), Miss Selfridge (womenswear), Outfit (Multibranded shop), Topshop (womenswear) and Wallis (womenswear). Arcadia Group focuses their business culture on consumer focus, commercial flair, strategic focus, energy and drive and the staff. Arcadia Group has more than 500 stores in over 30 markets, plus more than 2,500 stores the UK. Over 225M units are imported to the UK and sent to one of the four distribution centres where about 1500 staff select and distribute them to relevant stores using their own fleet of vehicles. The Fashion Footprint internal programme lunched in 2007 supports this amount of imported items. Its goal is monitor and manage the social and environmental impacts of Arcadia Group's business. Justified by ethical trading, Arcadia Group either has factories or is monitors suppliers in Mauritius, Dubai, Bangladesh, Egypt, Delhi, Sumangali and Uzbekistan. Between 2010 and 2011, Topshop and Topman sold 14,000 fairtrade garments each (Arcadia Group Ltd, 2011). Topman appears as a driving trends high-street men's fashion store creating brilliant, affordable and authoritative menswear. Topman's customer is defined as "hard to pin down" because the products can reach a wide range of different personalities and styles. Topman's product categories consist of menswear, footwear, accessories, stationary and novelty, electronic and grooming as exemplified in the next table.

In the first edition of 'How To Turn Drab Into FAB' you will find simple and easy to follow instructions on how to turn old and worn out furniture into beautiful and functional art. The steps are basic, so feel free to add your own touches to your project. Remember, it doesn't have to be perfect. Art is meant to be unique and one of a kind: )

This book shows how you can add great style to small bedrooms using colors and themes. It covers the basics of color harmony, enabling you to create your own color scheme. The many ideas presented in this book can be applied even with a small budget. Likewise. the luxurious ideas included by top interior designers can be reproduced on a tighter budget by following their color schemes and exceptional decorative ideas. The book includes beautiful and inspirational concepts to support you in creating your very special bedroom, however small. It also includes a few ideas for teenagers, or for the young at heart, and for children.