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Books > Health, Home & Family > Home & house maintenance > Home furnishing & decoration
In a perfect world you wouldn't need to be living in your home
while on the market. However, the list of reasons why someone sells
is endless and in many cases forces a homeowner to stay put when
selling. The experience can be grueling for sellers when your
personal lives become public displays to strangers and their
criticisms. If you're going to be living in your home when selling
you have to willingly be inconvenienced---not only emotionally, but
physically. So what's the best way to get out from under the
microscope? Sell fast. In this game-changing book by Tori Toth,
founder of the Stage 2 Sell Strategy and Stylish Stagers, Inc.
you'll discover: how home staging can change habits and emotions
that will benefit your bottom line---and ultimately put a "sold"
sign on your property. Preparing your home for sale is more than
just cleaning and decluttering, learn insider home staging secrets
on how to make your space feel like home to potential buyers. When
buyers feel at home, they're more comfortable and can relate to the
space, which ultimately gets them to make an offer. How fast can
you sell your home? See for yourself. In"Feel at Home", home
staging expert Tori Toth pulls back the curtains on the home
staging industry and shows you a simple 10-step plan for making an
impact on your housing market. The place that you've called home is
about to become your greatest asset, I'm here to help you get the
best return on your investment.
Readers love MORNING, NOON, NIGHT: 'A beautiful coffee table book!'
'Fantastic furniture, fabulous recipes' 'Gorgeous photos to inspire
the home, as well as recipes. A great buy!' 'Give this as a house
warming gift to anyone who has taste.' 'I bought both of the Soho
House books. I love them!'
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300-page, cloth-bound book invites readers behind the scenes at the
Houses - taking you through the day from the second you wake up to
the moment you go to bed. Key elements of the Soho House way of
living are illustrated and broken down into helpful features, like
how to make a tasty vegan breakfast or creating the perfect
bedroom, with plenty of inspirational new imagery along the way.
Interior design, food and drink take centre stage, and with more
than 20 years of design experience behind them, Soho House's
experts offer impactful insights into House style, including tips
on their favourite sources and suppliers - all designed to help you
take a little of the House home.
________________________________________ SOHO HOUSE founder, NICK
JONES: 'I've been astonished by the number of people who went out
and bought Eat, Drink, Nap, which really set out to explain our
founding principles. Since that was published, we've built Soho
Farmhouse on 100 acres of Oxfordshire countryside, transformed a
former belt factory in Chicago, reimagined a 140-year-old palazzo
in Istanbul, restored the shell of a listed Georgian building in
London's Soho and launched our own collection of homeware, called
Soho Home.'
Crammed with fascinating facts, expert advice and a wealth of
essential information, Shades of Grey will guide you through the
minefield that is choosing exactly the right shade of grey paint.
There's no doubt about it, grey is the shade of the moment. On
trend restaurants, shops and homes are covered in it. There's not
an interior decorating programme that doesn't feature it. However,
despite its popularity, it's not quite as simple as buying a pot of
grey paint and slapping it on the wall. Make the wrong choice, and
a grey room will be cold and dark, even energy-sapping. Get it
right, however, and your home will look sophisticated and modern.
So how to find the perfect hue? In Shades of Grey, Kate
Watson-Smyth explores the current popularity of the shade and
consults experts - scientists, paint companies and interior
decorators - who reveal their favourite greys as well as other
tricks of the trade. She looks at the wide range of greys on offer
and, via a simple process of elimination, will help you track down
the shade that works perfectly for you.
Although Ashley Johnston is comfortable with a needle and
thread,and really enjoys making handmade items for her children and
home,she could certainly understand that sewing machines can strike
fear and dread into the hearts of many crafters. The complicated
machinery with the fussy parts as well as confusing pattern
directions send many people running from any craft that requires
sewing. No-Sew Love is filled with ideas for the non-sewing crafter
or for the more casual sewist who would rather not haul out the
sewing machine for a quick project. Materials all easily found at
craft and fabric stores,hem tape, fusible webbing, a variety of
glues, and of course, fabric,are all you need to whip up the 50
no-sew wonders in the book. There are throw pillows, grommet
curtain panels, cute kids' clothing, holiday decorations, and even
accessories for you! Projects are photographed at each step for
crystal-clear directions, and sure-to-please results.
Transform your home with the power of a white and neutral palette.
'A capsule of calm, this ode to pale interiors by The White
Company's founder Chrissie Rucker is testament to the power of
neutrals.' - House & Garden 'The thing about white is that it
goes with everything, it is a canvas for life, whoever you are and
whatever your tastes. You just can't beat it.' - Chrissie Rucker
Whether you live in a tiny city apartment, a rambling country
cottage or an elegant town house, For the Love of White offers the
definitive guide to creating a home with white and neutral tones.
Published to mark the 25th anniversary of iconic brand, The White
Company, the book explores 12 inspirational homes in varied
decorating styles but unified by a passion for a white. For each
location The White Company founder, Chrissie Rucker, highlights
clever styling details that the reader can try out in their own
home - with calming, versatile and beautiful results. Illustrated
with specially commissioned photography by leading interiors
photographer, Chris Everard and organized into three sections -
Country, Town and Coast - the book provides both the advice and the
inspiration needed to transform your home.
Since its original publication in Chinese in the 1930s, this
work has been accepted by Chinese scholars as the most important
contribution to the study of their country's philosophy. In 1952
the book was published by Princeton University Press in an English
translation by the distinguished scholar of Chinese history, Derk
Bodde, "the dedicated translator of Fung Yu-lan's huge history of
Chinese philosophy" ("New York Times Book Review"). Available for
the first time in paperback, it remains the most complete work on
the subject in any language.
Volume I covers the period of the philosophers, from the
beginnings to around 100 B.C., a philosophical period as remarkable
as that of ancient Greece. Volume II discusses a period lesser
known in the West--the period of classical learning, from the
second century B.C. to the twentieth century.
When we describe a home as being 'full of character', we mean that
it's individual or exceptional in some way. Character comes from a
variety of sources, some from the property itself, and others from
the people who live there, while the act of bringing character into
a home is a layering process, one that starts with the bones of the
building and finishes with the decor - the human element. In this
new book, interiors expert Sally Coulthard explains just what it
takes to turn an uninspiring space into a personality-packed home,
whether it's a cottage, an apartment or a modern family house. Each
chapter focuses on a particular element - for example, the
importance of family and loved ones, and making an interior feel
like a social space - and explains why this element matters and how
to bring it into your home. Inspirational features, in the form of
'Keys to Character' boxes, offer tips on incorporating
individuality into even the most unpromising of spaces, from making
the most of period details and mixing old and new furnishings to
introducing artwork and displaying photographs.
Create a multifunctional – and stylish – space for working and living at home.
Own Your Zone helps you to create a multifunctional, calm space that works for you and strikes the perfect balance between living and working from home – without compromising on style.
Our home now needs to serve multiple purposes; it needs to be a place we work, work out, wine, dine and chill. With Own Your Zone, learn how to break your home into different zones for work and play. Create an environment that helps you get in the zone at the start of the working day and to easily switch off and wind down when 5.30pm hits.
With more and more of us working from home and it looking likely to become our 'new normal' (firms including Twitter and Facebook have said they will allow employees to work from home forever!), the work-life divide has become hopelessly blurred.
Whether you're working from your bedroom or your kitchen, learn how to carve out a space to help you focus for your 9 to 5, create a book nook for all that important down time or a clutter-free space for yoga – all in the same room.
Kids' bedrooms can be a series of challenges and charms from
precious first drawings to piles of toys and dirty washing. I Love
My Room showcases the charms and presents solutions for the
challenges. Rather than a collection of immaculate children's rooms
created by interior designers, the pages are filled with spaces
which celebrate the young occupants themselves. From whimsical
nurseries to expressive teen rooms, you will find clever storage
methods and inspiring ideas on how to decorate in a way that is
true to your something-year-old's personality.
Joanne Palmisano is passionate about the joy and importance of
reuse in home decor. Whether it's reclaimed, repurposed, recycled,
salvaged or antique, she will show you how to turn an old piece
into a stunning decorative object. Styling with Salvage provides an
aspirational-but-achievable plan for all who wish to bring some
character, style and soul into their home. Included are ways to
design with salvage when you seek to add colour or are working with
monochromatic palettes and inspiration on styling and displaying
collections. Filled with Susan Teare's gorgeous photography, this
book will inspire everyone who picks it up to reclaim their spaces
with reclaimed materials.
Stunning and inspirational French-style interiors and chic decor
from Carolyn Westbrook. When it comes to styling interiors,
designer Carolyn Westbrook has a distinct signature look that
combines her love of French style and vintage charm. In Part One of
this new book, Carolyn first leads us on a tour through 10
specially photographed locations that are perfect examples of her
vintage French style. Carolyn's own Texan plantation family home is
included, alongside other stunning houses that evoke the look - a
grand chateau, French farmhouse-style, a mid-century modern take on
French design, and more. The homes all feature individual and
eclectic styles, skilfully partnering inherited treasures alongside
new purchases, and successfully mixing pretty junkstore finds with
designer pieces. In Part Two, Details and Vignettes, pretty
displays and vignettes from the homes featured on earlier pages are
captured, teaching you how to group collections and showcase
treasured items to best effect.
Following her ultra-successful Handcrafted Modern and Modern
Originals, Leslie Williamson is back with an original and
compelling take on California s pioneering cultural and creative
forces. Williamson s distinctive, warm photography of charming,
often handcrafted interiors combined with personal, compelling
texts create intimate, revealing portraits of the homes of design
and lifestyle trailblazers. Featured homes include fashion designer
Christina Kim s airy loft in downtown Los Angeles; chef Alice
Waters s book-lined Craftsman bungalow in Berkeley; and artist Alma
Allen s studio and home in the desert, filled with his finished and
in-progress biomorphic wood and bronze sculptures. Powerfully
personal and deeply authentic, this beautiful book will appeal not
only to lovers of bohemian architecture but also to anyone who
feels the pull of the West Coast lifestyle. Showcasing thirteen
unique homes from the rugged coast of Big Sur to the
sunlight-filled modernist structures of Los Angeles and San Diego,
this book is a journey through the very best that California design
has to offer.
In this beautifully illustrated guide, best-selling author Sally
Coulthard demonstrates how to transform your living and working
spaces into places that put you in touch with nature. Eight
inspiring chapters cover key elements for the 'biophilic home',
including materials, views, colour and natural light. Each section
explores the links between home, health and happiness, drawing on
environmental research and neuroscience while making practical
suggestions for bringing the natural world into your home. Bring
nature indoors with flowers and plants, rediscover the innate
pleasure of real fires and fresh air, and learn how to improve your
mood and sleep patterns with dynamic light. Create a space filled
with natural elements, patterns, nature's colours, fabrics and
textures that lift your mood; find out why natural sounds and water
are soothing; and learn how to make small changes that will
inspire, invigorate and enrich your relationship with the natural
world. 'As best-selling author and designer, Sally Coulthard,
reveals in this guide, creating a 'biophilic home' can have a huge
impact on your wellbeing; improving your mood and encouraging
healthier sleep patterns...Be it plants, materials, colour or
light, it's enlightening to see how small changes can make a big
difference, while deepening your respect and correlation to the
natural world.' FORBES Magazine 'How to embrace the natural world
by transforming your interior spaces with specific materials,
colours, views and sounds.' Gardens Illustrated 'Humans are
mammals, programmed over millennia to respond to the natural world.
We may be able to live and work in man-made environments most of
the time. But according to a new movement of "biophilic" designers
and enthusiasts, we are not thriving...writer Sally Coulthard
likens it to the practice of keeping animals in captivity, in
surroundings ill-suited to their needs. "We live in a world that is
fundamentally mismatched to our evolutionary adaptation - we don't
see, hear and feel the things that we are programmed to respond
to," she writes.' Financial Times 'In this beautifully illustrated
hardback, Coulthard explores the many benefits of biophilic design,
drawing on environmental and neuroscientific research to uncover
the links between home, health and happiness. A fascinating and
uplifting read that looks at the science behind feel good
furnishings.' The Independent 'Never before has the need been
greater for being more connected with the natural world, as more
and more of us spend longer periods in our own homes. Divided into
eight chapters covering key elements for the 'biophilic home',
including materials, views, colour and natural light, the book
explores the links between home, health and happiness. Drawing on
environmental research and neuroscience, Sally makes practical
suggestions for bringing the natural world into our homes,
positively impacting cognitive function, psychological health and
general well-being.' The Lifestyle Editor '...bestselling author
Sally Coulthard picks out...the easiest ways we can bring nature
indoors' Town and Country House magazine '[Sally] recounts how
biophilia, the idea that humans are viscerally wired to feel a
communion with the natural world, has shifted from a hypothesis
espoused by the biologist Edward O. Wilson and others to the
emergence of urban beekeeping, increasingly diverse city gardens
and wild ideas for residences and workplaces.' New York Times 'an
excellent book' 50 Plus Magazine 'Sally Coulthard's new book
'Biophilia', explains how important the colours of the natural
world are for decorating' Esquire Magazine 'Biophilia, a new book
by Yorkshire author Sally Coulthard, reveals how staying close to
nature will make you healthier and happier.' Yorkshire Post
'Coulthard explores ways to harmonize home and the natural word.
She covers proper lighting, temperature, and airflow; decorating
with natural materials; beneficial colors and patterns, and more.'
Publishers Weekly 'Probably the most beautifully produced book I've
read for many a year, with such fabulously written text, I have to
say it is such a delight to read, you feel like you are holding
nature in your hands. Each page brings with it something inspiring,
from colour, to light, to sound, to choosing materials,
temperature, views, spaces, water and more.' Argenta Wellness 'Our
senses are wired to seek out the natural world. In author and
designer Sally Coulthard's exploration of organic and natural
design, she breaks down how homes can be designed to tap into our
fundamental attraction to the outdoors. In addition to techniques
that can improve our wellness, Coulthard's advice can also make
interiors feel more like home even as they bring nature inside.' LX
Collection 'A beautifully illustrated book packed with ideas for
bringing the outside inside to your home or workplace.'
Spirituality and Practice 'North Yorkshire writer Sally Coulthard
is your guide to green living in her new book' Great British Life
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