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Materials and Components of Interior Architecture (6th Edition)
J. Rosemary Riggs Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0130483990 |
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/*0-13-048399-0, 4839J-7, Riggs, J. Rosemary, Materials and Components of Interior Architecture, 6/E*/ Taking into account the dramatic advances being made in materials and technologies, this innovative book on interior architecture offers a refreshing, synergistic approach to the field while exposing readers to many exciting nonstructural materials available to today's designers. With an eye on the environment, it provides a firm understanding of the products, properties, and uses of all materials, covering everything from floors, walls and ceiling to installation, and recycling. Progressing from the ground upliterallyit looks beyond the more decorative aspects of design to study the properties and uses of both finishing materials in the design field and structural materials in the architectural field. For interior designers and specifiers.Customer Reviews:
Very Poorly Written.......2006-08-22
Broad Outlook on Interior Products.......2000-06-21
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The Simple Home: The Luxury of Enough (American Institute Architects)
Sarah Nettleton Manufacturer: Taunton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1561588318 Release Date: 2007-02-27 |
Book Description
For everyone who craves a simpler lifestyle, not only in how they live but also where they live, The Simple Home features 21 houses and presents six different approaches to creating a home that realizes its full potential both simply and elegantly.Customer Reviews:
Houses that live large for their owners.......2007-08-17
Eye-opening book.......2007-08-04
Defines the concept of a 'simple home' .......2007-07-08
Great Book!.......2007-05-14
Hmmm?.......2007-05-12
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The Barefoot Home: Dressed-Down Design for Casual Living
Marc Vassallo Manufacturer: Taunton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1561588075 Release Date: 2006-09-05 |
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Marc Vassallo's The Barefoot Home should come with a warning label: "This Book May Cause You to Sell, Buy, or Remodel a House within Hours of Reading." Gorgeous photographs fill this book to the brim, and every page that is not covered with photos and mini house plans called "footprints" is full of smart, helpful, inspirational text. Vassallo wants you to read The Barefoot Home as much as he wants to enjoy the stunning layout. He lays out the ground rules in the first few pages in his chapter called "barefoot dreams," in which he asks readers to "Pour yourself a tall glass of something cool, sit back, flip off your shoes, put your feet up, and dream with you eyes wide open." If that doesn't convince you to check out The Barefoot Home, our guest review from the beloved architect, author, and "cultural visionary" Sarah Susanka surely will. --Daphne Durham
Almost 10 years after The Not So Big House came out, it's reassuring to see that houses really are starting to get smaller. Over the past year I've been interviewed time and again for articles describing a growing backlash against the mega-houses that have been built across the country in recent decades.
Book Description
As our personal and professional lives become more demanding and hectic, people have reacted with a more casual, relaxed, and open way of living at home. Kitchens are no longer just for cooking but serve as entertainment hubs; barbeques on the grill have replaced formal dinners. As our lives at home have become increasingly informal, the “barefoot living” lifestyle has emerged and there is increased demand to carry this attitude over into home design.Customer Reviews:
Surprised and delighted.......2007-09-27
Barefoot -- informal style, for an informal life........2007-05-16
Great Book!.......2007-03-26
Barefoot, if it's summertime.......2007-03-11
Designed for wilder, more remote locations.......2007-02-15
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Tile Your World: John Bridge's New Tile Setting Book
John P. Bridge Manufacturer: Mistflower Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0974275433 |
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A comprehensive and in-depth guide for amateur and professional ceramic tile setters. TILE YOUR WORLD takes the reader from the early history of the craft, all the way through to advanced residential tiling techniques. Projects range from kitchen and bathroom floors to custom tile shower installations. Kitchen counters and back splashes are also covered. TILE YOUR WORLD contains over 300 black and white photos and line drawings and 6 four-page color inserts. Eight appendices and a full index are included.Customer Reviews:
A most.......2007-08-31
An excellent overview.......2007-06-22
Tile Your World.......2007-05-13
Everything you need to know!.......2007-02-13
Great book for me - Novice/JOAT.......2007-02-06
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Design Ideas for Kitchens (Design Ideas Series)
Susan Boyle Hillstrom Manufacturer: Creative Homeowner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1580112188 |
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With many homeowners spending more time in the kitchen than any other room in the house, the heart of the home has become the modern-day living room. Design Ideas for Kitchens offers hundreds of inspirational ideas and solutions directly from today's most talented designers. With over 500 color photographs of professionally designed kitchens, this book is an unrivaled resource. Floor plans are included for kitchens of all shapes and sizes, such as the traditional U-, L-, G-shape, one-wall, and galley configurations, with ideas for re-thinking the classic work triangle and how to plan multiple zones. Ever-popular kitchen islands and peninsulas are amply represented, along with the latest cabinetry and storage options. The book also contains a complete reference for choosing sinks and faucets, flooring and countertop treatments, including granite, tile, solid-surfacing material, and more. An entire chapter is devoted to choosing appliances best-suited for lifestyle needs.Customer Reviews:
Good Source for Ideas.......2007-08-31
This is a must-have book fit for every kitchen!.......2007-06-25
Excellent Resource.......2007-01-27
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Decorative Style: The Most Original and Comprehensive Sourcebook of Styles, Treatments, Techniques
Kevin Mccloud Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0671691422 |
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Decorative Style is the most practical and innovative resource of decorating styles, techniques, and tools and materials ever created.
Using innovative, easy-to-master techniques and surprisingly inexpensive materials (paint, paper, fabric, replica molding -- even photocopies!), Kevin McCloud -- a brilliant young set designer turned interior decorator -- shows you everything you need to know to design and create your own stunning adaptations of today's most popular decorating styles.
There are forty styles in all -- from Santa Fe, Shaker, Miami Deco, and Caribbean to Bauhaus, Biedermeier, Mackintosh, and French Country (to name just a few) -- each designed and created especially by the author and stunningly photographed, with literally hundreds of styling options and color variations to choose from.
Each style is represented by a complete floor-to-ceiling "room slice" -- a unique device that allows you to see the total impact of a scheme while easily visualizing its possibilities for your own room. The decorative effects and other components of each style are analyzed, rephotographed with a full range of imaginative alternatives, and cross-referenced to all the techniques, tools, and materials needed to create each unique effect. Even the most inexperienced and budget-conscious of home owners will be inspired by Kevin McCloud's imaginative use of inexpensive, readily available materials and amazing timesaving techniques.
Whether you do the work yourself or hire it out, whether you're redoing an alcove or an entire house, Decorative Style will kindle your imagination and give you all the tools you need to create spectacular, one-of-a-kind interiors that will truly distinguish and enhance the value of your home.
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If Your World's a Stage.......2007-10-05
Not Useful - Too Theme-y.......2005-11-17
Good, but not as your only decorating book.......2004-08-19
A Beautiful Book, but not enough detail regarding techniques.......2004-03-22
Refer to it over and over again.......2003-02-14
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Let's Ask Michael : 100 Practical Solutions for Interior Design Challenges
Michael Payne Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071416277 |
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Michael Payne--popular host of the hit HGTV's hit series Designing for the Sexes--brings his unique talent and expertise to this beautiful and practical reference designed to help homeowners find stylish solutions to today's most common and challenging home design dilemmas.
YOU ASKED HIM, NOW HE'S ANSWERING
Through emails, internet chats, and attendance at his seminars, Michael's fans have directly asked him to solve their most difficult design dilemmas. This beautiful reference delivers the answers they seek in a style that captures Michale's trademark wit and charm. Questions range from the common to the outrageous, providing always informative -- and often amusing -- reading.
* Beautifully illustrated with 175 full-color photos
* Features a logical room-by-room approach
* Convenient format features each problem and solution presented across a single two-page spread
* Covers living rooms, family rooms, master bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, work spaces, child's room, and more
* Packed with advice, ideas, and tips on lighting, upholstery, storage, and accessories
* Includes an informative Basic Questions chapter
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Good question anwer book.......2007-02-11
WONDERFUL!.......2004-09-01
MIchael Answers With Inspiring Decorating Ideas.......2004-03-27
The show is really Michael's wonderful personality and design flexibility. Here it shows in advice on all rooms from kitchen to bath to living room to bedroom to dining room to family room and all others. His adept touch is in them all, such as this suggestion in regards to breathing new life into stale furniture on a tight budget: "have it professionally painted." It's answers like this that endure this guy to us in HGTV's audience.
The index here is critical, since it cross-sections his answers not just by room, but by style, by topic e.g. wall color, by furniture piece, etc.
100 of them with good color shots and sketches and Michael. Only thing wish he'd included was a recommended bibliography for us who would like to go deeper.
Easy to Understand & Pratical Answers.......2004-02-03
Really enjoyed this book!.......2004-01-15
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Design Ideas for Bathrooms (Design Ideas Series)
Susan Boyle Hillstrom Manufacturer: Creative Homeowner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 158011234X |
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Design Ideas for Bathrooms presents hundreds of ideas and solutions for creating an up-to-date bathroom. With 500 photographs of professionally designed bathrooms, this book presents the best ideas from today's most talented designers. There is complete coverage of the latest master baths, family baths, powder rooms, accessible designs, fixtures, and desirable spa amenities. In addition, there is a full representation of ideas for finishing materials from high-end looks in stone to affordable plastic laminates. Other targeted topics include design ideas for vanities and storage, lighting, ventilation, and laundry areas. An unrivaled resource of information, this book explains how to make design decisions and product choices based on lifestyle needs. Lots of 'Smart Tips' and 'Sidebars' provide information at a glance.Customer Reviews:
Great Book.......2007-05-07
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The New Decorating with Architectural Trimwork (Ne Decorating With)
Jay Silber Manufacturer: Creative Homeowner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1580111815 |
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In this new, expanded edition of Jay Silber's ground-breaking first book, New Decorating with Architectural Trimwork focuses on the aesthetic uses of architectural trimwork. Plenty of books tell the reader how to install trim around windows and doors, but few also explain how architectural trim can enhance a room's aesthetic appeal. Silber shows readers even more ideas on how to choose and use a wide variety of moldings, trim, and design concepts to transform the all-too-common sterile, open floor plan into a warm, inviting, richly textured home. This new edition of Trimwork provides ideas for how to decorate homes with trim and wall panels so that walls, passageways, and stairways can radiate the warmth, character, and beauty of the well-appointed homes of eras gone by.Customer Reviews:
the new decorating with architectural trimwork.......2007-07-04
Guide book for finishing trim in your home........2007-05-15
Not so very new.......2007-03-12
Great for the Do-It-Yourselfer .......2007-03-01
Excellent Addition to the Trim Carpenter's Library.......2005-09-06
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Provencal Interiors: French Country Style in America
Betty Lou Phillips Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith, Publisher ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 087905848X |
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8 1/2 X 10 In, 160 Pp, 125 Color Photos. Provencal Interiors: Inspired by the sun-drenched colors of southern France, french country, or provencal, decorating is the epitome of understated luxury, as fitting in the city and suburbs as in rural reaches. No matter that it's roots are firmly planted in the small stone farmhouse, or mas, the typical dwelling in the provencal region. It is eqaully appealing in a remote chateau as in a stately manor house, or bastide. The most inviting homes exude comfort,tradition, and grace. Most people, though, say it is charm that best characterizes the french interior. Through stunning photographs, informative text, and an extensive resource list, provincal interiors detail everything necessary for creating this harmonious mingling in america.Customer Reviews:
Sun-drenched colors of Southern France.......2004-03-03
As you open this book, you may start to have the desire to suddenly order hundreds of pastel pink tulip bulbs. While this book is not quite as lavish as "Villa Décor" it is much more practical. There are extensive instructions for using color, texture and scale.
Betty Lou Phillips has included a wonderful picture of a library with bookcases spanning the library walls. Her work has appeared in Southern Accents, Traditional Home & Bath, Window and Wall, and Decorating as well as many magazine covers. She is a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers.
There are eight main chapters:
What Is Provencal Charm?
Making an Entrance
French Quarters
Table Matters - Kitchens and Dining Rooms
Bedrooms, Bedding, and Baths
French Accents
Outside Interests
Trade Secrets
I loved reading the "Table Matters" section which includes a comparison between French and American kitchens. The bedroom section had me wishing I had some fresh croissants on hand for a breakfast tray.
There is no need to travel to France to buy beautiful fabrics, furnishings and fixtures. A complete list of catalogs is also included.
This is "French Country Style in America," so it is a fusion of various ideas from a variety of locations in France.
~TheRebeccaReview.com
For Americans creating French style, who can't go to France.......2001-12-28
This book provides a great solution. American houses are DIFFERENT than European, and what's sold in furniture and decorating supply shops is different, too. "Provencal Interiors" shows you how to get that effect with things you can get here. THAT'S great. If it isn't authentic, that's ok. If you don't have unlimited funds for a decorator to buy worldwide to create "real" Provencal, this book works really well. Maybe better.
The pictures give good examples of Provencal style rooms, and there are lists of suppliers that are helpful. The color schemes are perhaps the most useful part. Another useful thing are the fabrics and how to mix them. I myself have problems figuring that out; this helps.
French Provencal style influences American interiors.......2001-10-27
Remember it was not an English, but an AMERICAN interior designer, Nancy Lancaster from Virginia USA, who revolutionized English Country style. She became Lady Colfax and changed the look of country houses from stiff to chintz.
I think the author introduces the beauty of Euro/American design in this book. The French Provencal Style in AMERICA title is a great clue that the pages are not full of 17th century French country village interiors.
Also, it always helps to read a book before you judge it!
Provencal Interiors?????.......2001-08-08
Provencal Interiors: French Country Style in America.......2001-05-23
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