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50 animal mandalas coloring book stress- relief with inspirational quotes
- Mandala coloring book for adults Stress Relieving with Lions, Elephants, Owls, Horses, Dogs, Cats, Designs, gift, Meditation, Relaxation, creative art, crafts for children, paint
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The spirit of 'country' can be evoked in many ways, but is an
enduring and much-loved home style.This beautiful collection offers
the reader practical knowledge and inspirational ideas to create
their own very personal sense of country, wherever they live.The
first section, Country Decorating, illustrates how you can create
restful decorative effects around your home.The second section,
Country Crafts and Flowers, uses materials and themes from nature
for a variety of decorations and arrangements created from fresh
and dried flowers, and the final section, Country Cooking, is a
collection of 50 seasonal recipes for mouthwatering country fare.
When we think about what home is, many of us would say a house that
is soulful and welcoming, a place with an inviting porch and a lush
garden, a welcoming entryway and well-crafted living spaces that
will nurture our private moments and expand to welcome guests. In
this alluring new book, Keith Summerour shares nine houses,
exploring their architecture, interiors, and grounds, to illustrate
a new idea of home. Reinterpreting and making new his own Southern
legacy that speaks both of aristocratic charm and homespun appeal,
these homes range from rustic retreats that draw their power from
the land to elegant manor houses, but all share extraordinary
character and charm that nod to history while reflecting the way
people wish to live in the world today. Enriched by the work of
some of the top interior decorators working today, including Beth
Webb, Barbara Westbrook, Circa Interiors, and Liza Bryan, as well
as world-renowned landscape designers Jeremy Smearman and John
Howard, and beautifully illustrated with all-new photography,
Creating Home is the ultimate dream book.
Whether you want to fill your home with a riot of different
patterns, or are looking for a single motif for a feature wall,
there's an amazing array to choose from, and Love Pattern and
Colour is the perfect place to start. Bursting with beautiful
images of pattern designs from all over the world, this book shows
how clever use of pattern can change a room: it can create a bold
and striking space filled with drama, a cosy, comforting corner, or
a cheery, colourful place that lifts the spirits. Being creative
with pattern doesn't just mean choosing it for your walls: there's
a feast of styles displayed here for furniture, lampshades, floors,
tableware, curtains and cushions. Looking at eight popular themes
and how they can be used in a huge variety of ways, Love Pattern
and Colour shows you designs and styles that can transform your
home. Chapters and motifs featured include: Abstracts - brush
strokes, marbling, random swirls Botanicals - trees, leaves,
grasses, seedheads Scenes and Stories - Chinoiserie, toile du jouy
Florals - spectacular blooms, country garden Cultural Travellers -
paisley, Ikat, Islamic arabesques Geometrics - stripes, spots,
squares Animal Kingdom - animal motifs and prints Textures - visual
and tactile Charlotte Abrahams loves pattern and wants you to love
it too. With her expert advice on how to choose and use pattern,
and how to make it work in different spaces, you can find your
personal style and decorate your home with flair.
Storytelling Exhibitions describes the role and practice of modern
'spatial storytellers' and looks at the potential of exhibitions to
shape our understanding of the world. It explains how curators,
designers, artists and scientists combine to tell powerful stories
through exhibition design. Exhibition designer and educator Philip
Hughes shows how contemporary tools and technologies - digital
reconstruction, 3D scanning and digital archives - interweave with
traditional forms of informing, displaying and promoting to create
powerful narrative spaces. Whether telling stories of politics,
trends, society, war, science or history, Storytelling Exhibitions
provides inspiration and guidance on designing installations which
change the way we think. Examples included from: Te Papa,
Wellington, New Zealand National Museum of African American History
and Culture, Washington, USA Weltmuseum Wien, Austria Santa Cruz
Museum of Art and History, US Lascaux: Centre International de
l'Art Parietal in Montignac, France Stapferhaus, Lenzburg,
Switizerland Micropia, Amsterdam, Netherlands ...and many more
Sheds are no longer neglected buildings at the end of the garden.
As shown in this book, they have become an area of our home to be
discovered by creative designers who see the garden as an
extendable space of the home, whether in the heart of the city or
in a larger rural setting. Today's sheds are stylish, innovative
and elegant and can be used for a multitude of purposes. They can
be artists' studios, writers' retreats, children's playgrounds or
teenage dens, entertaining spaces, log cabins or garden rooms, or
even just a traditional humble shed used for storage and plants but
revamped with more stylish and decorated overtones. Using over 50
real examples from around the world, some simple and modest and
some really extravagant, this book helps inspire and instruct the
reader on how to create your own special space. The owners
themselves describe how they have created their own private
hideaways and Jane Field-Lewis provides insightful style notes and
comments based on her conversations with the owners, architects and
designers. She tells you how to create your shed depending on how
you want to use it, and then how to make it stylish as well as
useful. An intrinsic part of their charm is that normal decorating
rules don't apply and this gives the owners the freedom to express
themselves in a different way without necessarily following any
fashion or trends. Recycled, vintage and precious items are mixed
with new, functional and practical ones. Jane Field-Lewis covers
all these aspects in a warm-hearted way. The stunning photographs
are accompanied by informative captions to help the reader design
and decorate their shed on a more practical level. This is the book
to help you create an inspiring space. Word Count: 40,000
'Beautifully written and both heartbreaking and heartwarming'
Jessica RedlandCottage Two, Bracken Ridge Farm sits at the end of a
pitted track, with the glorious Yorkshire moors stretching behind
it. Just a simple two up, two down, the cottage holds the promise
of a new start for two very different women, but it is also full of
secrets. Fifty years ago, newly-wed Stella is relishing making the
little cottage a happy home. But for all the lovingly handmade
curtains, and the hot dinners ready on the table for her husband,
Stella's dreams of married life jar painfully with the truth. Fifty
years later, the cottage is a new beginning for Tamzin. Determined
to get away from her previous life, she makes the move to the wild
and vast Yorkshire countryside. When Tamzin finds a sepia photo of
a woman, Stella, standing in the cottage's garden, there's a
sadness in her eyes that Tamzin recognises. As the cottage reveals
more of its secrets, Tamzin is desperate to find out whether Stella
got her happy ending. And as she gradually makes new friends, and
starts to win over her mysterious neighbour Euan, Tamzin dares to
dream about her own happy ending too... Escape the rat race with
this heart-warming, page-turning new novel from Jane Lovering.
Perfect for fans of Julie Houston, Beth O'Leary and Kate Forster
Praise for Jane Lovering: 'I adored the dual timeline aspect of
this gorgeous story and discovering the secrets from the past.
Beautifully written and both heartbreaking and heartwarming'
Jessica Redland 'A funny, warm-hearted read, filled with characters
you'll love.' Matt Dunn on A Country Escape What readers are saying
about Jane Lovering: 'Jane Lovering has that ability to choose
exactly the right words and images to make you laugh, with a
wonderful touch of the ridiculous, then moving seamlessly to a
scene of such poignancy that it catches your breath.' 'It is very
difficult to explain just how wonderful this book is. The power of
her words and her descriptive prowess to put it bluntly is
amazing... the emotional impact it has had on me will be long
lasting.' 'Fall in love with reading all over again with this
cracking tale from Jane Lovering. An excellent reminder, if one is
needed, of the absolute pleasure of losing yourself in a good
book.'
Our homes are an expression of how we want to live; they shape our
everyday routines and fundamentally affect our well-being. Interior
design for the home sustains a giant global industry and feeds an
entire branch of the media. However, the question of dwelling, or
how to live, is found increasingly to be lacking in serious
discourse. This book sets out to review the interior design of our
homes. It discusses 20 iconic residential interiors from the
present back to the 1920s, by architects and designers such as
Assemble, Arno Brandlhuber, Lina Bo Bardi, and Josef Frank and by
artists such as Cecil Beaton and Andy Warhol. Including historic
and recent photographs, drawings and plans, the book explores these
case studies as key moments in the history of the modern interior.
Penny Sparke provides a concise history of the discipline of
interior design, Alice Rawsthorn investigates the role of gender,
and Mark Taylor discusses the discourse on interior design in the
twenty-first century. Adam Stech offers insights into the use of
colour in residential interiors and Matteo Pirola offers a detailed
and richly illustrated chronology of significant events in the
history of interior design. In a portfolio of photographs selected
exclusively for this book, Jasper Morrison explores what makes a
good interior. In addition to interviews with contemporary interior
design practitioners, experts in the fields of the sociology of
living and psychology provide further insight. This book is an
invaluable resource for anyone interested in interior design.
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