Craft to your heart's content without making a trip to a specialty store. Once you've glimpsed the inspired creations in Paper Goods Projects, you'll never look at your pantry shelves or recycling bins the same way. Here are 60 fun and simple crafts that transform everyday items: paper towel tubes turn into safari animals, coffee filters dyed bright colors bloom into water lilies, doilies make a charming crown, and cereal boxes become the building blocks of a mini city. Paper Goods Projects has crafts for birthday party favors and decorations, cake toppers, greeting cards, children's toys, and so much more. Tap your creativity like never before to create fun, beautiful objects out of the simplest materials.

The authors love taking everyday items and giving them a twist. Upcycling and repurposing are key terms in their design lexicon. As they say: “Trends come and go, but you have to live in your home, so make it a comfortable space that can grow and change with you.”

Through their innovative ideas, inspired use of materials and ability to reinvent ordinary objects, the authors present projects suitable for all craft and décor enthusiasts, from beginners to those with more advanced skills. Whether you prefer to tackle projects with a handsaw and cordless drill, craft paper and scissors, or a sewing needle and delicate trim, there is something here for everyone.

From storage solutions to paint techniques, through knitted rugs and upholstered seats, to stamped tiles and outdoor seating, there are ideas to brighten and enliven your home and outdoor spaces – all showcased via beautiful photography, concise instructions and an appealing design.

Is clutter taking over your life? Do you feel overwhelmed by the number of objects that have accumulated in your house over the years? Well, you're not alone. We all gather clutter to some extent, but it's what we do about it that counts. If you find yourself with a clutter problem and want to reclaim your home or garage, this is the book for you. Clutter isn't just displeasing to the eye; it can start to affect your emotional wellbeing and can even have a negative effect on your physical health, especially if you suffer from allergies or often find your house infested with pests. Therefore, it is in the interests of both you and your family to declutter your home and, in turn, declutter your life. This book tells you everything you need to know about how to start tackling that clutter, from why you should declutter your home to how to approach the task and what to do with your clutter once you've decided to get rid of it. It will advise you on how to make the most of your space, how to maintain order once you've achieved it, and how to make sure you never find yourself in a clutter-filled nightmare ever again. In this book you will learn: -Why You Should Declutter Now -Where To Start Decluttering -What You Can Do With What You Don't Need -How To Create More Space -How To Maintain Order -How To Declutter In Just Five Minutes -How To Declutter & Organize Around Children Full of practical advice and useful tips, this book is your number one guide to clutter and how to free yourself from it. Start living your clutter-free life today

"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.

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.

This useful compendium is packed with tips, techniques, quick fixes and trade secrets aimed at complete beginners planning their first-ever home makeover. Clear, simple instructions will de-mystify all key aspects, giving you the tools to get the job done quickly and professionally.

The book’s focus is on painting and decorating, and includes all aspects of preparation of walls and paintwork, including stripping, sanding, filling and sealing and moving onto pro-standard wallpapering, painting and tiling. Readers will pick up the kind of trade secrets to achieve a really good finish, really fast – avoiding the common pitfalls and mistakes that can often beset the occasional DIYer.

With useful lists of the essential tools required for a job, along with fi x-it solutions for when things go wrong, 300 Tips, Techniques and Trade Secrets for Painting and Decorating is the manual that will make home makeovers as painless as possible.

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.

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Design (Industry, Graphics, Fashion), grade: 1.1, Central Queensland University, course: Brand Image Design, language: English, comment: Grade has been converted from Australian (29/30) to German (1.1), abstract: All aspects of a brand image should resonate with its target audience in order to create a meaningful relationship. Before a brand can improve the lives of those who use it, the identity of both needs to be clearly understood by the other. Once this is established, a relationship can be forged and nurtured much like a relationship between two people. Like a relationship, the parties need to bond, to listen, to grow, to be authentic and to stay that way. When Interbrand (2014), the world's largest brand consultancy, released their 2007 Brand Marketers Report, the following five top aspects of successful branding were revealed (Airey, 2007): 1.Consistency 2.Understanding of Customer/Target 3.Message/Communication 4.Creative/Design/Brand ID 5.Relevance Many other aspects were of course discovered in the survey, but the best practises may be found under these top five - the first beating the second by twice the percentage (Airey, 2007). When implemented successfully, valuable brand equity can be attained, attracting a responsive audience and relevant target customers.

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Design (Industry, Graphics, Fashion), grade: 1.1, Central Queensland University, course: Brand Image Design, language: English, comment: Grade has been converted from Australian (29/30) to German (1.1), abstract: Aesthetics are an integral part of marketing communications, influencing the design of logos, advertising, atmospherics and package design. The strategic management of brand image design is essential to developing and implementing a corporate or brand identity. According to Simonson & Schmitt (1997), aesthetics can create tangible value for an organization because: aesthetics creates consumer loyalty aesthetics allows for premium pricing aesthetics cuts through information clutter, increasing the memorability of the visual marks of the company, which in turn increases its chance of selection at the point of purchase aesthetics affords protection from competitive attacks aesthetics can save costs and increase productivity, as employees and outside suppliers need to spend less time in creating new layouts and messages David Garvin's (1987) book, the Eight Dimensions of Product Quality, consists of performance, features, reliability, conformance, durability, serviceability, aesthetics and perceived quality. The concept defines aesthetics as 'the subjective dimension indicating the kind of response a user has to a product. It represents the individual's personal preference' (Karch, 2008). Aesthetics management should begin with a thorough status quo analysis of every aspect of a company or brand's visual and sensory identity. The objective of this analysis is to get a clear understanding of the identity that the organisation wants to project for itself and its brands in its aesthetic output (its corporate expressions) and how customers perceive the organisation's current aesthetic output (customer impressions). (Simonson & Schmitt, 1997, p.45.) Brand Identity focuses on the following attributes of aesthet"