The COMPLETE GUIDE TO FURNITURE STYLES (ENLARGED EDITION)

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The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles

Great book for a history of furniture styles!

Good written description of history and style

The COMPLETE GUIDE TO FURNITURE STYLES (ENLARGED EDITION)
Louise Ade Boger
Manufacturer: Scribner Paper Fiction
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

Furniture & Carpentry | Woodworking | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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Book Description

Instilling a cultivated taste for all authentically creative furniture! From ancient Greece and Rome, through medieval times, and up to the present day, domestic furniture has been an integral part of civilization, and its study reveals much about our history and culture. This classic guide to furniture styles discusses the development of domestic furniture in Europe, America, and China, detailing the great periods of French and English furniture from the Renaissance through the Empire and Regency periods. Furniture from every age is represented in over 600 photographs of pieces from major collections throughout the world. The book's highly readable style and extensive coverage make it a valuable resource for interior designers.

Customer Reviews:

Found book arrangement difficult.......2005-04-27

A College textbook or reference-type book. Comprehensive--fine print. Seemed a good read, but I didn't like the set-up. All text was in the front, and the examples and photos were grouped in the back. One would need to flip back and forth to view examples of the subject matter. Didn't work for me.

This is the only reason I gave it a low rating, and returned the book.

The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles.......2003-01-28

As a college educator in the history of architecture, furniture and the decorative arts I think the Boger is a very good overall text both to students and interested others. Information on furnitre prior to Gothic is the weakest, and would reccomend other texts to satisfy those needs. Photographic reproduction quality in some instances barely passable.

Great book for a history of furniture styles!.......2001-03-01

I have to disagree with the previous reviewer--this book is FILLED with pictures in the back half of the book. The pictures are disappointingly all black and white, but it keeps the cost down I suppose. This is the best resource for visual identification of styles from Egyptian through Twentieth Century that I have seen, and I have seen quite a lot of them. The front half of the book is very detailed information about each of the styles as well as specific pieces within each style. It's not something you can read from cover to cover, as the details would quickly overcome you. But it is a wonderful reference book for anyone who wants to be able to look up a particular style, read about it, and look at many pictures to visually understand general characteristics of the style.

Good written description of history and style.......2000-06-09

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FURNITURE STYLES is a well written guide to the history of different periods of furniture. It states the history of the period and crucial pieces with a description of the piece. There are very few pictures, so if you are looking for a guide to train your eye to note characteristics of period pieces, this will not help you. If you are looking for a written description of the pieces, this book is for you.

Complete Lighting Design: A Practical Design Guide for Perfect Lighting (Quarry Book)

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Basic Principles... Advanced Application
The book title really says it all

Complete Lighting Design: A Practical Design Guide for Perfect Lighting (Quarry Book)
Marilyn Zelinsky
Manufacturer: Quarry Books
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Binding: Paperback

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No matter how beautifully decorated a room is, it doesn't matter if no one can see it. Interior designers know the importance of good lighting placement, because it is the key that can literally transform a home. Although correct lighting placement is this book's central theme, it goes much further to discuss everything from basic lighting principles and practices to new technologies, issues of energy efficiency, and new trends in computer automation, followed by a practical guide for analysis and planning, execution, and installation, offering creative solutions to a wide range of illumination issues.

While the information is oriented to a professional design audience, the practical information and advice is just as useful to do-it-yourselfers and homeowners who take on their own lighting projects.

Each topic includes a visual guide and the author even includes room-by-room lighting strategies. Full-color photographs of interiors and drawings illustrate detail and specifics of placements and design features.

Customer Reviews:

Basic Principles... Advanced Application.......2007-01-15

While this book is less How-To and more Inspiration, it is a great book for both the home owner and the home planner. It focuses on basic lighting principles (which are useful for anyone trying to properly light their home) illustrated through advanced lighting applications (architectural elements and features incorporated during the planning, building, or renovating of a home).

It illustrates lighting techniques for each room in the home with emphasis on different areas of the room that require different kinds of lighting. Lighting for both day and night, and a special section on exteriors, are explored.

The examples and illustrations in this book are from homes where lighting design was considered in the initial construction, and money and resources were apparently not an object. While unattainable, they are inspirational.
For those of us who don't own our home, or cannot remodel (due to financial, zoning or other restrictions) this book provides some basic lighting principles that are still useful and applicable when lighting a home. In general, there are three levels of lighting to complete any room:
1. Ambient lighting-an indirect light that provides overall illumination
2. Task Lighting-focused light for work spaces (ie-kitchen counters, desk-tops, bedsides, reading chairs, etc.)
3. Accent lighting-any light used to draw attention to a featured object (art, sculpture, architectural elements)
Thought the examples are not really anything you could achieve in your own home, it gives you ideas on how to incorporate these types of lighting for both day and night, and interior and exterior.

The book title really says it all.......2007-01-06

With this book, there is truth in advertising. I'm an architect and I do a lot of resdential design. I've found this book to be quite useful and would recommend it to archtects and contractors that build on spec.

Popular Mechanics Complete Car Care Manual: Updated & Expanded (Popular Mechanics)

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Popular Mechanics Complete Car Care Manual: Updated & Expanded (Popular Mechanics)
The Editors of Popular Mechanics
Manufacturer: Hearst
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Binding: Hardcover

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How Cars Work
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One of Popular Mechanics' most successful books gets a complete tune-up, with 64 extra pages and more than 90 projects, all clearly marked by level. So now owners will be able to hush those squeaks, replace the U-joints, and change their own oil and filter.

For more than 100 years, the editors of Popular Mechanics have been providing car enthusiasts with the skills and confidence they need to keep their vehicles running right and looking great. And this update to the magazine's popular car care manual gives owners more essential information than ever. It's absolutely crucial for anyone who wants to know the automobile's basic components, from the engine to the electronic systems, and to understand how they work, what can go wrong, and how to make repairs. Find out how to maintain and replace windshield washers, fix steering wander and faulty cruise control, and purge bad smells from the interior. Get smart advice on how to pass emission inspection and find service data online. And because car owners want their ride to look as good as it works, there are even instructions for removing bumper stickers, tinting windows, and adding pinstripes.

The Complete Home Improvement and Decorating Organizer, Revised Edition

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Good Home Improvement Book
Good organizing tool for the home. Very professional looking
Organizational Heaven
Good book
Not as good as others

The Complete Home Improvement and Decorating Organizer, Revised Edition
Debra Koontz Traverso
Manufacturer: Upside Books
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Book Description

If you own a home, condo, townhouse, rental or vacation home, then you will love this book. As much journal as it is organizer, this time-saving book features entries and fill-in-the-blank space for all the notes you ought to keep about what you've done to your home, what you've bought, where everything is stored, what color paint you used, when repairs were done, and by whom, etc.

Features a chapter for every room and each section of the house, inside and out. It even offers space to record the details of your swimming pool, deck, landscaping, and more!

Use the book to record the details of what was done, how it was done, what was used, how much it cost, when it was done, and where it was from. Handy Preventive Maintenance Checklists and a section on "How Long Things Last" will serve as reminders to help you keep the various components of your home in top condition. In a special section on interior design you will find basic space-enhancing principles to make any home look superior.

Practical for every home owner, but unique enough to make the perfect gift for housewarmings, goodwill gestures, weekend visits with friends or relatives, Christmas, new employees moving into town, and friends moving out of town.

Customer Reviews:

Good Home Improvement Book.......2005-04-12

This book is really great. It has alot of space to write details about every room. It also includes appliance information for warranties. It gives you a checklist of items to look at before you move in your house, a monthly checklist and a six month checklist. It is good to write in the deminsions of rooms, windows, etc to take to the stores when you need to buy supplies. I love the spiral bound because it is so much easier to deal with. Excellent Book!

Good organizing tool for the home. Very professional looking.......2004-10-14

I just got this book as a gift and it's exactly what I was looking for. I think the negative reviews here are referring to the first edition which must have been three-ring and photocopied, I don't know why they show here.

Anyway, this revised edition is awesome: professionally designed and printed, and chock-fill of good stuff. And, it's spiral bound and lays flat, not three-ring bound. Files perfectly with my house paperwork. I think it will keep me organized in the new home

Organizational Heaven.......2004-10-01

I was so excited to finally have a way to keep all of my dimensions, colors, and pertinent information about our home in one place. Now when my husband calls and needs me to pick up a part for the sink, stove etc. I simply take the book and the sales rep does all the rest. No more double trips to get the right item. I also am amazed at how much easier this book makes decorating my home. It's great to be able to pull out the book to see if something will fit in a particular room.

Good book.......2004-09-30

Getting this book was a real pleasant surprise. I'm very disorganized and it's frustrating because I can't seem to stay on top of things. I was kind of skeptical when I ordered the book because too many books are hyped, but I really have found this one helpful. One immediate benefit is that i now have a way to keep track of changes I'm making to my kitchen. I now have a way to remember the precise paints and tiles I used. I also liked the worksheets for furniture, the garage and that kind of stuff. It never occurred to me that keeping track of this stuff would make my life a whole lot easier.

Not as good as others.......2003-06-22

Unable to decide between this and a few books similar to it, I purchased them all so I could compare them side by side. I must agree with one of the other reviews that the pages are just photocopies that are spiral bound together...very cheaply made. And the information to record in this book isn't as nice as in others (2 for example sold here also...Our House Journal: The Story of Our Home, which is good for sentimental things like photos, and Welcome Home: A Home Improvement and Decorating Organizer, which handles the facts and sample information). I definately would not recommend this book to others.

Ready, Set, Decorate: The Complete Guide to Getting It Right Every Time (House Beautiful)

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Beautiful illustrations give great ideas!
Don't Waste Your Money
Good ideas

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Decorating can be foolproof, when it's done the House Beautiful way! With practical, down-to-earth guidance, and the magazine's photos as inspiration, even true beginners will find out how to get it right the first time…and every time.

Go from clueless to faultless! Home decorators who long for a contemporary loft-style apartment, chic Colonial living room, or cozy beach hut bathroom can make their dreams come true…effortlessly. With House Beautiful's straightforward, no-nonsense approach to everything from painting and wallpapering to lighting and window treatments, reviving a home is as easy as Ready, Set, Decorate! The segment “Ready!” explains the many wonderful options to choose from--colors, patterns, surface treatments, or hardware--and offers confidence-building tricks. “Set!” leads you through all the preparatory stages that spell the difference between success and failure. And “Decorate!” shows how to do the job yourself or brief a professional--and how to avoid the pitfalls, whichever route you take. Plus, there's practical guidance on quick, fun-to-do projects that add value and beauty to any home.
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Beautiful illustrations give great ideas!.......2007-08-09

This book is more for the beginner than advanced BUT it does have great ideas for every room in your home. It covers a wide variety of styles that are sure to please everyone. The book goes room by room, each covered in three sections; ready, set and decorate.

The getting "ready" section covers the different styles and materials used in decorating (i.e. fabric and window shapes in the window section) - this section clearly defines where to begin and what can be used to change it. The "set" section explains in further detail what needs to be gathered and decided before you decorate. The last section, "decorate" explains techniques used.

If you are interested in ANY of the techniques in this book, you must get additional resources for the "how to" instructions. This book is shy on that BUT it has lots of decorating tips and outlines that will really help any begining decorator.

Don't Waste Your Money.......2006-10-26

Even if you've never read a decorating book before, this book isn't one on which to waste your time and money. It's elementary (do we really need yet another explanation of the color wheel)and glib (don't even think about doing a faux finish based solely on the information in this book). I bought it used for about $2.50 and still think I overpaid.

Good ideas.......2006-06-29

This book has some good ideas to decorate. It is easy to understand. Unique plans for rooms.

Complete Book Of Window Treatments & Curtains: Traditional & Innovative Ways To Dress Up Your Windows

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review of Window Treatments and curtains by Carol Parks

Complete Book Of Window Treatments & Curtains: Traditional & Innovative Ways To Dress Up Your Windows
Carol Parks
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“Not only explains decorating jargon but also provides ideas, guidelines, and instructions for covering windows in dozens of different styles. Non-sewers will appreciate the attention paid to planning and answers to questions.”—Booklist. “Practical advice with clear, easy-to-follow instructions.”—Library Journal.

Customer Reviews:

review of Window Treatments and curtains by Carol Parks.......2000-08-21

after checking out this book from our local library, I simply had to have it. I have started to make my own window treatments amd this book gave good discriptive terms that were easy to understand. The pictures made the projects less intimating. This book is easy to understand with basic but important information

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Pruning Bible
Stunning Tome

The Complete Book Of Pruning
Duncan Coombs , Peter Blackburn-Maze , Martyn Cracknell , and Roger Bentley
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Book Description

Whether focusing on deadheading or disbudding techniques to produce abundant flowers, cutting back in preparation for winter, clipping fruit trees for increased yield, or shaping topiaries, this book spells out each lesson in detail. The drawings demonstrate the correct approaches to this essential process, and color photographs display precisely pruned plants.

Customer Reviews:

Pruning Bible.......2006-07-22

I have a large library on Gardening and design and this is the book I turn to with all my pruning questions. I cant say I agree with the previous reviewer. Whether novice or experienced I think there is a wealth of information in this text for anyone interested in expanding your knowledge on pruning. I do not have a degree in botany or a degree for that matter and found the book well written easy to understand, precise and to the point. I highly recommend this book.

Stunning Tome .......2005-02-28

What a magnificently high brow review of the subject of pruning.

If you can understand what these highly educated folks are talking about then you will not need this book.

The wonderfully proper English manner of only indexing by Latin names, colorful use thereof throughout with only minor mention of common names renders this tome utterly useless to the lay gardener.

An advanced degree in botany is required to fully grok what they attempt to convey.

Shun this item. Wait for a revised version that makes this a useful book vs. the current flogging of hard won degrees.

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Add Style to Your Windows!
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Combining her skill as an accomplished seamstress, an artistic eye that takes a dim view of boring curtains, and her experience as a teacher, The Complete Book of Curtains and Drapes is the definitive book on the creation of this most vital element of interior design, inspiring both beginners and experts to create luxurious living environments.

Customer Reviews:

Add Style to Your Windows!.......2006-04-07

This covers all the details of measuring the window and deciding on style, fabric, etc. Learn to make standard drapes, swags, Austrian and Roman blinds, tie-backs and rosettes to dress your windows. The big color photos show lush room setting with handsome curtains.
I used the book mostly to look at styles and fabrics, but for a sewer, this book has all the how-to you could want.

The Secrets of Making Classy Curtains.......2005-01-12

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Disappointing
Review of the Complete Patio Book

Sunset Complete Patio Book
Sunset Books
Manufacturer: Sunset Publishing Corporation
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Customer Reviews:

Disappointing.......2003-01-06

I found the patio designs ugly and unimaginative. Don't waste your money on this book.

Review of the Complete Patio Book.......2000-05-07

Excellent book for the do-it-yourself gardener. Book addresses all aspects of patio construction, making patio furniture,arbors and planters.

Influential Country Styles: From Traditional American to Rustic French and Modern Scandinavian-the Complete Guide

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Influential Country Styles: From Traditional American to Rustic French and Modern Scandinavian-the Complete Guide
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Let best-selling author Judith Miller show how to create country style anywhere!

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Country living has evolved into an international style that celebrates rural pleasures and the simple life. Relaxed and informal, assured and unpretentious, it offers an appealing refuge from day-to-day stress. In Influential Country Styles, best-selling interiors and antiques author Judith Miller looks at how country traditions from around the world have influenced home décor around the world. All the world's varieties of country style are included, from the rustic simplicity of a spare American Shaker interior, to the comfortable clutter of an English cottage; from the exuberance of a colorful Mediterranean villa to the cool lines of a Scandinavian farmhouse. Origins and development of each style, natural resources and elements used, key characteristics, and textiles, furniture, decorative arts, wall and floor coverings, and more are examined--making each look both easy to understand and easy to re-create in the reader's own home. Miller's informative text, accompanied by full-color photography, celebrates the warmth, simplicity, and spirit of the rural tradition in interior design.

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