Readers will love this treasure trove of inspiration filled with stunning photography of finished rooms, pictures of added decor elements, and chatty side notes and tips as author and artist Curtis Heuser guides them room-by-room through his renovated Victorian home. Along the way, the reader will learn how to create unique paint effects, pick up tips on everything from colours to contractors, and be swept up to new inspirational levels.

This is an invaluable pocket source book bursting with images of original and well restored Edwardian features. This is the ideal handy reference for the home owner, either to take to the architectural salvage yard or DIY store to identify authentic styles and colours, or simply to enjoy the best of Edwardian design. It contains a room-by-room tour of Edwardian homes, covering everything from grand opulence to modest dwellings. It is beautifully illustrated throughout, with design details such as close-ups of fabrics and door knobs.

Simple and powerful, IRIS in the House: ?And Suddenly Everything Works! is interior redesign and decorating trade-secrets for the do-it-yourself homeowner. Compiled from the wisdom of nineteen top-rated redesign trainers, this first-ever anthology offers creative solutions to design, including one-day decorating principles and concepts, as seen on HGTV Decorating Cents.

Easier to make than a conventional quilt or a painted floorcloth, a Floorquilt is the perfect way to turn the fabric you love into a masterpiece you can use. Plus, there's no sewing! Decoupage techniques and supplies are all you need to transform a piece of canvas into a beautiful, durable floorcloth. Ellen guides you every step of the way, from choosing raw fabric to applying a protective finish to the completed Floorquilt. Lots of how-to photographs and inspiring examples.

In this gloriously illustrated book, world traveller and style expert Bibi Jordan introduces Swahili style, a school of design, architecture and graceful living that instils a sense of simplicity, sensuality and spirituality into any interior. Each chapter details the region's rich past, with fascinating facts about African culture and history, and highlights the most intriguing and inspirational aspects of the local decor, making this an ideal book for both the armchair traveller and the globetrotting adventurer as well as decorating devotees.

This practical and inventive book will teach you to transform cheap chain-store furniture and junk shop finds into unique stylish items which you will feel proud to display in your home. With over 30 projects, "Furniture Facelifts" is an indispensable bible of ideas, designs and techniques for creating attractive pieces of furniture for indoors and out, with a minimum of expense, expertise and time. With easy-to-follow recipe-style instructions the book takes you through all the materials and equipment needed and the preparation necessary for every type of surface, as well as a fully illustrated directory of the techniques featured in the projects. Throughout, as many as three alternative colour combinations and motifs are included alongside the basic recipe and all the most common household items are included from chairs and stools, to doors, shelves and tables.

Ever since a physical distinction could be made between rural and urban, the word 'country' has represented a set of values and way of thinking - an escape both literally and metaphysically from the cares and concerns of the 'city'. Dinah Hall's innovative exploration of the influence of contemporary style on the country look shows us that we can use all the benefits of modern technology and design to create a home that focuses on the needs of the individual for space, peace and simple beauty. A visual inspiration, the book features photographs from the best locations throughout the world and is packed with ideas for creating a modern home with a country feel.

Independent Catholics are the fastest-growing variety of Catholic in the West. They are found in every city of every state in the U.S. and Mexico, every Province of Canada, and throughout Australia, Europe, and South America. This book arises out of a need in the Independent Catholic community for a compact and concise introduction to the movement. This is intended to be a book that can introduce interested people to the movement in a friendly, easy-to-read style that will not tax their patience or their wallets. The Independent Catholic movement is wonderfully diverse, and it is not possible to adequately cover the full spectrum within an introductory volume of this size. Rather, this book focuses on the most common varieties of Independent Catholicism in hopes of providing a short, useful orientation to the newcomer.

Gather cloth, favorite photos, and found treasures to create innovative fabric screens that look great anywhere, anytime. Easy enough for no-sew fans, appealing enough for stitchers, these screens display memories and mementoes much like a scrapbook. Personalized screens also make great gifts for friends and family. Assembly is a snap with double-sided fusible stiff interfacing plus fabric glue or a few stitches. Crafters of every kind will want to express themselves with Dimensional Delights.

Feel you are permanently stuck on the "trash" side of "trash to treasure"? Got more "stuff" than style? Jumpstart your imagination today with a new book from Pamela Cole Harris. Now you (yes, YOU!) can learn to create elegant, unique furniture from everyday objects, beginning with your coffee table! Learn principles that will allow you to create elegant furniture out of all your clutter (and your neighbor's)!

Better Homes In America Plan Book For Demonstration Week October 9 to 14, 1922.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Originally published in 1915, this book goes into great technical detail on the qualities of different types of wood, tools, filling, staining, varnishing, polishing, gilding, enameling, and finishing all kinds of woodwork. Fred T. Hodgson was an architect, editor of the National Builder, and author of many other books on construction techniques.

This is your best guide to prepare for a career in professional interior design.

Discover the field of interior design, how to choose the correct school, the tools to achieve that perfect job and how to expand yourself in the profession.

This book has been prepared for those who want to enter or begin the job search process. Those currently in the field may also find this book helpful. The material enclosed is compiled from support agencies and leaders in the field of interior design. This book will help you every step of the way; hopefully you will use it as a tool and keep it for future reference.

Lou Manfredini, aka Mr. Fix-It, is the trusted friend every homeowner wishes he or she had--someone who "knows" houses. In his fun, friendly, fully illustrated guide for both inexperienced and seasoned homeowners, he takes you through your entire house and around the yard, showing you how it all works and what to do when it doesn't. The result: You'll have a clear understanding of the systems that make up your house and gain the expert knowledge to proceed with any job, big or small--whether you're hiring a contractor or doing it yourself. Discover
- How your house works: an anatomy lesson
- The wonders of water--where it comes from and where it goes
- Getting wired--the magic of electricity
- Windows--ways to bring in the sunshine and keep out the drafts
- The joys of being floored--good floor construction and maintenance
- Wall power--it's not what's "on" them but what's "in" them that counts
- Decorating secrets the pros don't like to share
"Plus" Lou Manfredini's sixty-minute home inspection, an essential tool list, and an ABC glossary of terms: from "air duct" to "weather stripping"

Trompe L Oeil Today offers a fascinating overview of the range of styles and techniques of illusionistic painting for private residences and public spaces, restaurants and other commercial interiors, and even indoor swimming pools. It covers unusual techniques, such as anamorphism, and bold geometric patterns, as well as more traditional Trompe L oeil subjects, including Pompeian-style wall paintings, classical arches and colonnades, landscapes, statues and reliefs, and elaborate ceiling treatments. The book defines the categories of illusionistic painting: material imitation, or faux finishes, ranging from marble and wood finishes to snake and crocodile skin; grisaille, including imaginary moldings, reliefs, and statuary; small-format trompe l oeils, such as those painted in niches and on doors; and large panoramic murals. Experienced professionals, the authors address practical questions and offer helpful tips and tricks for choosing the right materials, technique, and style. They examine the use of perspective and the psychology of visual perception, presenting a visually beguiling array of painting possibilities. Trompe L Oeil Today is an essential reference for artists and designers working in trompe l oeil and in search of suggestions or inspiration, interior architects and decorators looking for an outline of what can be done to create new and different ambiances, and clients who plan to commission a work. Over 150 four-color photographs illustrate the architectural and aesthetic impact of professional illusionistic work. Trompe L Oeil Today is an invaluable survey of an impressive, popular art form."

Features: Brian brings a bright new perspective to the principles of colour, helping consumers to make confident decisions; Unlike other paint books, the process of painting is emphasised; Clever 'Wall Wizard' tips make painting simple and fun. For example, mix 1 gallon of warm water and cup of fabric softener to clean brushes in 10 seconds; Decorative techniques for ragging, sponging, glazing, and using unusual tools for designer effects; Detailed coverage of tools and supplies, including varnishes, stains, and glazes.

It's fun, it's fanciful, "it's kitsch"! Celebrate the art of cool imitation, fantastic escapism, and nostalgia for late 20th-century populist culture that lies at the heart of this lighthearted and contemporary design style. These 18 fabulous spaces are aimed at those who want to create a feeling of irreverence and fantasy in their homes while still maintaining a semblance of style and glamour--and the extraordinary and exuberant interiors include those of Zandra Rhodes in London and Pierre et Gilles in Paris. A riot of a book, packed with vivid colour, humor, extravagantly themed decor, and inventive low-budget ideas, "Kitsch Deluxe" is an essential read for devotees of the wacky, weird, and wonderful.

It is often within the home, one's personal space, that an individual's identity and personal style can be truly expressed or revealed. The Times Book of Innovative Interiors gives a unique opportunity to see behind doors that are seldom or never opened to the public. A specially edited selection of 40 features from the multi-award winning Saturday Times magazine. Innovative Interiors gives intimate insights into real homes and lifestyles, from designer apartments to rural idylls and from seaside retreats to city-centre penthouses. The focus is on the links between people, their personalities, their daily lives and the spaces in which they choose to live.

For courses in History of Furniture, History of Interiors, Decorative Arts, History of Architecture and Interiors.

Innovatively combining coverage of early periods and later periods in one comprehensive, well-illustrated, authoritative volume. This fresh exploration of the history of furniture focuses on innovation and change—the key moments and connections in the evolution of style. The first 5 chapters explore the origins of the traditional styles of Western furniture, from ancient times through the Eighteenth Century; the next five survey the Nineteenth Century, with its complex array of historic revivals, reform, and concurrent attempts toward modernism, into the Twentieth Century; and the final five chapters consider many of the innovations and developments of the Twentieth Century, with photographs of modern classics, many of which are still in production. This familiarity with both traditional material and previously “overlooked” modern contributions and contributors will help students make more educated choices today for better design tomorrow.

Here is a truly unique and exciting folk art that makes people want to call Aunt Mary in Des Moines and tell her how easy it is. You can almost learn it over the phone. Created and named by Mary Lou Cook, pastecraft is simple and fun for the ?veriest? beginner, as the author says. Using paste, fabric and shellac to cover solid objects, PASTECRAFT is practical, creative and absolutely no-fail. It can transform throw-aways into something of beauty for gifts and home decorating. One can cover old trunks, suitcases, books, the refrigerator, frames, coffee tables, trays, file cabinets, and on and on and on. This book is a ?must? for every home, classroom and therapist?s office. It brings ideas, inspiration, self-esteem, and joy to the maker, and it even convinces the so-called ?non-creative? person that he or she can truly do wonders with simple ingredients. And, included in this book is almost forty pages devoted to calligraphy, including instructions, ideas, quotes, and broadsides that can be reproduced for framing. MARY LOU COOK, a.k.a. MLC, is a true Renaissance woman, a master teacher, author, calligrapher, nuclear waste activist, inspirational speaker, Bishop of the Cloth, peace advocate, philosopher, bookbinder, needlewoman, counselor, and designer. And, to top it off, she has been named a Santa Fe Living Treasure. MLC has received many national and international honors and awards, and is often featured in book and the media. She calls herself an octogeranium. A rare flower indeed!

Do gentlemen wear shorts? What are the rules regarding interior decor in a high-security prison? Is it ever acceptable to send Valentine's cards to one's pets? The twenty-first century is an age of innumerable social conundrums. Around every corner lies a potential faux pas waiting to happen. But if you've ever struggled for the right response to an unwelcome gift or floundered for conversation at the dinner party from hell, fear not: help is at hand. In Rules for Modern Life, Sir David Tang, resident agony uncle at the Financial Times, delivers a satirical masterclass in navigating the social niceties of modern life. Whether you're unsure of the etiquette of doggy bags or wondering whether a massage room in your second home would be de trop, Sir David has the answer to all your social anxieties - and much more besides.

Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing, please contact c&t publishing.