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A stylish, practical guide to making your home beautiful and
keeping it in tip-top condition, aimed at young urban
professionals. A stylish, practical guide to making your home
beautiful and keeping it in tip-top condition. Fix Your Home is an
illustrated little guide to decorating and maintaining your home,
aimed at young urban professionals who have just moved into their
first flat. With no-nonsense writing and straightforward
step-by-step instructions, it gives you all the basic home
maintenance information you'll ever need, including putting up
shelves, hanging pictures, wallpapering a room, saving energy and
when to admit defeat and get the professionals in. On top of that,
it contains a wealth of inspiration for decorating your abode on a
shoestring, from window treatments to flooring to stylish home
offices. Read this book and you'll be able to get all your home's
little eccentricities under control, leaving you to get on with
living your busy and exciting life Word count: 15,000
A Netflix Original Series. The New York Times bestselling authors
of The Home Edit and The Home Edit Life. Clea Shearer and Joanna
Teplin are back with an inspiring, easy-to-use workbook to help you
organize and maintain your living spaces. Here are 52 challenges
for every room of the home - from organizing a junk drawer and your
home office desk to arranging the apps on your phone by colour. The
workbook is structured so you can tackle one challenge a week or
breeze through your whole home in a few months. Included: - Helpful
organization tips and tricks - Space for writing checklists,
shopping lists, and to-do lists - Activities that help you
accomplish your goals at your own pace - Writing prompts for
capturing memories connected to the things you own - Peel-able gold
star stickers to mark your progress Clea and Joanna are here to
help you edit your life and keep it that way. 'Move over, Marie
Kondo - Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin are the professional
organisers the A-list now let rifle through their drawers.' -
Sunday Times Style
Build super-flat and strong with a torsion box workbench, assembly
table and alignment beams. This title offers great storage
solutions and expert advice for making a workshop more efficient.
It provides everything a woodworker needs to know about building a
workbench, making outfeed tables for shop machines, making work
tables, assembly tables and storage cabinets.
Design expert Katy Campbell and acclaimed photographer Mark
Nicholson offer an insider's look at the Cotswolds' most charming
and inspirational private homes At Home in the Cotswolds is a
celebration of beautiful Cotswold houses and their interiors.
Author Katy Campbell and photographer Mark Nicholson take us on a
tour of the villages and rolling hills of the Cotswolds as they
uncover some of the most charming and inspirational homes in the
region: a chocolate box cottage, an exquisite old rectory, a
Georgian farmhouse, a quintessential manor house, an historic
stately home, and more. The featured homes, along with their
adjacent gardens, were chosen not only for their architectural
beauty but for their stunning interiors, which range in style from
classical English country retreat to chic contemporary dwelling.
Each house, and the interior design of its rooms, reflects the
charm and character of its owners-and comes with its own unique and
intriguing story. With the homes' idyllic settings-and a foreword
by the Duchess of Marlborough-this collection presents
inspirational ideals of English country style certain to fascinate
and delight.
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International Environmental Labelling Vol.7 DIY
- For All DIY & Construction Industries (Do it yourself (DIY) of Building, Modifying, or Repairing, Renovation, Construction Materials, Cement, Coarse Aggregates. Clay Bricks, Power Cables, Pipes and Fittings, Plywood, Tiles, Natural Flooring)
(Hardcover)
Jahangir Asadi
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On cover, editor's last name appears as Coob.
It was love at first sight. We drove up the long track, pulled into
the yard, and wow! What a view. I did the drawings myself, the
maximum we were told (in those days) about what one could get away
with in terms of planning permission. A local architect did the
formal drawings and submitted them for planning permission. I did
not intend to do the work myself, it simply happened by
circumstance. I put the groundwork out to tender to six
contractors. Only one bothered to reply and the quotation was
astronomic. The steelwork looked very complicated, but I went to
the structural engineer's office in Gloucester to chat about it. I
asked: 'It looks complicated, but could I do this myself?' Peter
Rowntree was very reassuring. 'It looks complicated because you are
looking at it in its entirety. Let me show you this corner here.'
And he then explained how the steels fitted together and how one
wired them up. After a quarter of an hour, he summarised by saying
'Yes, you could do it.' And I did! Working only on Saturdays, and
even then, not every Saturday, it took me seven years to complete
it to a point where we could move into the extension. I was
extremely sad to leave Hydefield and putting this book together has
been cathartic. I was tremendously proud of what I managed to build
and have wanted to produce this photo book to bring back the
memories of every little achievement.
An illustrated guide to new approaches to woodturning and carving.
Three basic chapters are followed by 12 illustrated projects
covering decorative marks, lettering, low-relief and pierced-relief
carving, working in the round and shaping. Advice is given on tools
and how to sharpen them.
"It's an evocative, inspiring mood board of a book." - Andreina
Cordani, Reclaim Magazine "Decorating with flowers - on everything
from walls and windows to sofas and floors - will bring magic and
romance to any space." - Mail on Sunday's You Magazine In the
designs of Tricia Guild, atmosphere is everything. Patterns,
colour, texture, furniture and furnishings interweave to create
spaces that have all the depth and meaning of installation art. Yet
just as an outfit never feels complete without a spritz of scent, a
room without plants is only nearly complete. Only nearly perfect.
At Designers Guild, Tricia Guild uses flowers, leaves and stems to
enhance a room's mood, bringing soul to the spaces we live in. A
flower has many spirits over the course of its life, from the
promise of those first pristine and innocent buds, to the
resplendent joy of full blooms and the wistful glory as they fade.
The cycle of nature provides an ever-evolving muse for Tricia
Guild. Her latest book explores how blooms can evoke emotion,
presenting a plethora of inspirational designs that breathe fresh
life into our homes and workspaces.
Create beautiful wooden animal portraits on the scroll saw with
Woodworker's Pattern Book. Realistic ready-to-use patterns are
provided for 75 fascinating creatures, from exotic predators to
familiar backyard friends. Father and son scroll sawing team Wayne
and Jacob Fowler have based every design on their own extensive
photographic studies of live animals, taken on location in the
wild, in zoos, and in nature preserves. Each animal can be cut as a
single, freestanding piece of wood. The authors include advice for
beginners on getting started, with expert scrolling tips and
techniques plus advice on wood preparation, blade selection,
cutting strategy, finishing, and display options. A full color
photo gallery will inspire you with the range of impressive
wildlife projects that you can complete with this book.7 5
realistic, ready-to-use patterns include: Big Cats Alert Siberian
Tiger Mountain Lion Cheetah Prowling Jaguar Resting Watchful
LeopardPredators Snarling Wolf Red Fox Polar Bear Black Bear with
Cubs Florida AlligatorBirds of Prey Golden Eagle Barn Owl with
Mouse Peregrine Falcon Sparrow Hawk Osprey with DinnerBackyard
Animals Big Horn Sheep Black Tailed Deer Cottage Chipmunk Eastern
Massauga Rattlesnake JackrabbitExotic Animals Cape Buffalo Giraffe
Mother and Child Rhinoceros Savannah Elephant Peacock Resplendent"
"I went to Noma and interviewed Rene (Redzepi). We were talking
about art and food but the restaurant was closed. Everybody asked
me how was the food, what did you eat - and he basically gave me
some marmite. The best marmite I've ever had." - David Shrigley
"This is not a coffee table book....notions of 'taste' get a
grilling, while there are some fruity artist interviews....that
make for entertaining accompaniments." - Melanie Gerlis, The
Financial Times "This comprehensive and expansive explorations of
art restaurants marries the nourishment of senses, both visual and
taste, along with the meeting of minds." - Chris Corbin, Corbin and
King group "A new and unique book." - Layla Maghribi, The National
News This is the definitive guide to Art Restaurants - a new way to
appreciate food. Christina Makris, collector of art and a Patron of
The Tate and RA, takes the reader on a tour of 25 of the world's
greatest art restaurants, from New York to Hong Kong and Cairo to
London. Makris traces their stories, details the art highlights,
and meets artists, restaurateurs and chefs including Vik Muniz,
Julian Schnabel and Tracy Emin. A captivating guide to where great
art and memorable food meet. Restaurants featured include: Abou el
Sid, Cairo; Bibo, Hong Kong; Casa Lever, New York; Chateau la
Coste, Aix en Provence; Colombe d'Or, St Paul de Vence; Currency
Exchange Cafe, Chicago; del Cambio, Turin; Dooky Chase, New
Orleans; Gunton Arms, Norwich; Hix Soh, London; Kronenhalle,
Zurich; Langan's, London; Lucio's, Sydney; Michael's, Santa Monica;
Mr Chow, London; Osteria Francescana, Modena; Paris Bar, Berlin;
Red Rooster, New York; Scott's, London; Sketch , London; The Ivy,
London. Including interviews with: Ai Weiwei; Antony Gormley;
Beatriz Milhazes; Bill Jacklin; Conrad Shawcross; Damien Hirst;
David Bailey; David Hockney; David Shrigley; Gary Hume; John Beard;
John Olsen; Julian Schnabel; Maggi Hambling; Michael Craig-Martin;
Michael Landy; Peter Blake; Polly Morgan; Sanford Biggers; Tracey
Emin; Vik Muniz.
Germany has long been thought of as the Mecca of wood-carving. The
wood-carving tradition goes back hundreds of years, and the carving
schools continue to produce wonderful craftspeople. For those who
can't make the trip to Germany, Georg Keilhofer is the next best
thing. Trained in German carving techniques, he shares them with
students in his studio, and now in this new book. Here are the
basic skills of relief carving. Step-by-step he takes the reader
through tool selection, under-standing wood, and carving techniques
are presented in a clear and concise way. The result is a project
of which the carver will be proud.
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