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This book captures today's hottest design trend for the home -
textures, design, colors, and craftsmanship that evoke European
ideals of a bygone era. Explore kitchens and baths rich in the fine
details that characterize Provencal, Tuscan, and English country
designs. Massive range hoods and brick hearths, faux finishes, rich
natural stone, and tile provide polish and posh to up-to-the-minute
home environments. Enjoy hand-carved wood, wrought-iron, and fine
crystal chandeliers in spaces filled with the latest appliances and
an abundance of workspace. The atmosphere is timeless, and these
designs are certain to endure. This is an indispensable design
guide for professional designers and discerning homeowners.
Here is the ultimate portfolio featuring some of the most advanced
interlocking concrete paver technology available today. Over 300
full color images showcase innovative paver shapes, textures,
colors, and finishes, as well as a wide variety of classic pavers
in a stunning collection of residential and commercial projects.
Homeowners, landscape architects, and builders should not be
without this important resource, which inspires with hundreds of
ideas for patios, pool skirts, driveways, shopping centers, parking
lots, boulevards, and much more.
Feast your eyes on some of the hottest fireplace designs and hearth
products available today. This book is a must for people who
already own a fireplace and seek design inspiration, people who
want to retrofit an existing fireplace, and people who are
installing a new fireplace in their home. An inspiring guide to
today's vast assortment of hearth products, it features over 225
gorgeous color photographs of dressed-up fireplaces and stoves, and
helpful tips to help you design a fireplace environment. These
wonderful gas and woodburning fireplaces are attractively adorned
to spark your imagination. Whether your style is classic,
traditional, or contemporary, you'll be sure to find designs that
suit you. This is an invaluable resource that no current or future
fireplace owner or designer should be without.
This book is the perfect companion for anyone planning to redo a
kitchen or bath. Images and interviews with professional designers
illustrate the dramatic results of changes, big and small, in over
50 projects. Gorgeous color photos display options in countertops,
cabinetry, flooring, lighting, appliances, fixtures, and so much
more! Floorplans are included to address common structural problems
and various solutions that help you envision improvements in your
own home. Whether youre planning a modest facelift or a major
renovation, this is your first step in the planning process. This
book will set you on the right path toward turning your ho-hum
kitchen or bath into the room of your dreams.
Each year, interior designers descend upon show houses to display
their best work. Given free reign over the concepts, the color
palettes, and all the details, designers go all-out to create some
of world's most striking and trend-setting interiors. This book
takes you on an exceptional tour of over 150 show house rooms, from
the Pasadena, California to Kips Bay, New York that present a
fascinating array of design styles gorgeously illustrated in over
400 stunning photographs. Readers will marvel at this extraordinary
collection, featuring rooms draped in luxurious textiles, furnished
in custom designed masterpieces, and accented with original works
of art. This book itself is a showcase, sure to be treasured by
design aficionados, professionals, and homeowners alike. Foyers,
kitchens, dining rooms, bedrooms, baths, living rooms, outdoor
areas, kid spaces, wine cellars, media rooms, and studies are all
included. Resource guides provide information about each show house
and designer featured, as well as the photographers who frame
images of these marvelous rooms for us.
Traditional style kitchens blend convenient modern amenities with
details that invoke a sense of history, craftsmanship, permanence,
and warmth -- including painted and distressed finishes,
furniture-grade cabinetry, natural textures, and concealed
appliances. Early American, Colonial, Victorian, Shaker, and Arts
& Crafts, in addition to Traditional Country and Farmhouse
kitchens are shown in over 150 gorgeous color photos. Hundreds of
ideas in cabinetry, hardware, light fixtures, appliances, and
flooring are featured. Whether you're restoring or renovating a
historical home, or want to add nostalgic charm to your
contemporary kitchen, this book will provide inspiration with so
many Traditional style kitchen designs right at your fingertips.
If eyes are windows to a person's soul, doorways reveal the nature
of a place and the people who inhabit it. Welcome to Cape May, New
Jersey, home to the nation's largest concentration of historic
Victorian architecture! Filled with 65 charming color photos, this
book welcomes you to explore some of the most picturesque and
historic doorways. They feature wooden scrollwork and bright coats
of paint, as well as Cape May's notable custom screen doors,
advertising to all a pride of ownership in front porch
appointments. This book is the perfect souvenir for Cape May
visitors, lovers of Victorian architecture, and homeowners looking
for distinctive ideas for their front doors.
Hundreds of contemporary kitchens demonstrating a modern aesthetic
are shown in over 250 gorgeous color photographs. Sleek space-age
designs, minimalist masterpieces, and traditional kitchens with a
modern flair all are included. This striking collection will
inspire readers to consider innovative ideas in light fixtures,
cabinetry features, flooring, backsplashes, and countertops. Actual
projects from top designers and cabinetry manufacturers will keep
homeowners, architects, and designers turning the pages
enthusiastically.
At long last, here is the figural whiskey decanter reference youve
been asking for. Over 1,600 figural whiskey bottles are shown, both
vintage and contemporary, including complete collections of Ski
Country, Ezra Brooks, and McCormick bottles. Also included are
bottles by Wild Turkey, Lionstone, Potters, Kontinental, Daviess
County, Poncho Villa, and Louis and Clark. Weve even included the
complete line of Dugs Nevada Brothels. Political figures,
entertainers, historical figures, sports figures, and every
imaginable animal and bird have been immortalized as a whiskey
decanter. 620 colorful photos will help you identify and accurately
price all the bottles and decanters shown. Experienced and novice
collectors alike will find this reference invaluable.
Explore the benefits, and the beauty, of 50 custom kitchens in over
175 gorgeous color photographs. Stories from kitchen design
professionals detail the planning process, and address layout and
style in relation to the lifestyles and needs of homeowners. Images
illustrate specially crafted cabinetry in a wide breadth of door
styles, wood species, and finishes, carefully combined with choices
in flooring, lighting, countertops, and appliances to achieve
attractive and personalized results. This book serves as a useful
introduction to kitchen design, and an inspirational visual
reference for homeowners considering their own custom projects. No
one remodelling a kitchen for the first time should be without this
book.
Sneakers are more than just athletic shoes -- they are also fashion
statements, status symbols, and cultural icons.This book traces the
progression of sneaker design from the early canvas-topped rubber
soles to the hi-tech innovations of the late 1980s. Over 450 colour
and black-and-white images compiled from magazine advertisements
that date back to 1940 explore a half-century of athletic shoe
design for track, football, soccer, baseball, basketball, running,
tennis, and casual wear. Included are designs by Converse, Keds,
Adidas, Nike, Puma, Reebok, and New Balance, among other companies.
Fashion historians, designers, and sneaker fans will all love this
exciting book.
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Fire Outdoors (Paperback)
Tina Skinner, Melissa Cardona
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R609
R504
Discovery Miles 5 040
Save R105 (17%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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From warm weather climates to properties built on permafrost,
homeowners everywhere are discovering anew the allure of fire
outdoors. With zoning laws, resources, and proximity often limiting
the open bonfire enjoyed by our ancestors, fire is being tamed in a
variety of attractive ways by creative landscape architects,
designers, builders, and manufacturers. Today's outdoor fires
radiate warmth for chilly evenings, add an attractive glow to
gathered faces, form focal centers for outdoor gatherings, and
provide a means of food preparation al fresco. This book presents a
wide variety of ideas of outdoor fireplaces, fire pits, and cook
centers. Manufactured outdoor hearth products and custom handmade
masterpieces address a huge array of styles to satisfy a broad
range of tastes and budgets. A selection of outdoor cook centers is
also included, complete with wood burning pizza ovens. Over 200
images of designs by professional landscape architects,
contractors, custom homebuilders, kitchen designers, and hearth
product manufacturers were compiled to provide inspiration and
present the most complete book on the subject ever published.
Deck design is more exciting than ever! This book explores hundreds
of custom-built decks. Over 300 inspiring color photographs show a
variety of wood and wood composite decks -- from small and quaint
to grand and sprawling designs. Choices in traditional and
innovative design elements are illustrated to help you envision the
deck of your dreams, and text addresses common design
considerations. A plethora of planters, railings, privacy screens,
deck skirting, firepits, gazebos, pergolas, built-in spas and
barbecue areas, large steps, and lighting options are included.
This book is an important resource for homeowners considering their
own outdoor additions.
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