Book Description
Discover an astounding array of unique motifs to applique in this one-of-a-kind block collection! These beautiful designs are inspired by delft ceramic tiles, a Dutch craft dating back to the seventeenth century.
• Find directions for the full-size quilt, a smaller quilt, and 196 block patterns
• Use the vast block library to mix, match, and make original designs
• The reverse-applique technique is perfect for the small shapes in these 4" blocks
Customer Reviews:
A must have for anyone who loves applique!.......2004-07-04
This is a wonderful book for any quilter that loves applique or would like to learn the art of hand work! The instructions are very easy to follow and the patterns are fantastic! Anyone who purchases this book will find themselves addicted to these little blocks! Don't let the 4" size scare you off.....the blocks can be resized to suit your comfort zone.
A treat to applique these Duthch Treat Patterns.......2004-07-04
The entire book is beautiful! The instructions are easy to understand and the blocks come out easily. This quilt can be done in other colors and it also shows how to make smaller quilts. It is truely a great buy.
Love the Designs and good instructions!.......2004-07-03
I once thought I hated applique - but after trying the newer techniques I love to applique. The designs in this book are a treasure and varied. You can use your favorite colors and easily do it your way. i can see a future of a great number of varied Dutch Treat quilts being made. there is even a Email group of quilters doing these blocks.
Wonderful book!.......2004-07-03
This is definitely a must-have for Appliquéers in the quilting world. Judy has given great instructions for recessed (reverse) appliqué with clear and concise pictures to go by. The little blocks are wonderful. Some of the blocks can be a challenge but oh so rewarding when finished. You won't regret purchasing this book.
A must have for quilters.......2004-07-03
This is a great book. I love all the designs. It is a must have for quilters who like recessed (reverse) applique and love to do hand work. I have not done much recessed applique and Judy's instructions are great and easy to follow. Don't let the 4 inch blocks scare you away!
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The romantic elements that define the traditional southern cottage-a picturesque picket fence, a breezy sleeping porch, and well-worn heirloom furnishings-have made these small homes perennially stylish. The Southern Cottage showcases the best cozy dwellings in popular seasonal destinations-from the mountains in Virginia and North Carolina to Florida's Panhandle shores and the coast and islands of South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and Louisiana. A pristine Victorian lake house and a rustic mountaintop retreat express two moods of escape in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Summer beachside cottages include a colorful Key West home and a century-old family Florida retreat that captures informal old-fashioned spirit. Examples of 19th- and early 20th-century cottages reveal ways in which these diminutive houses satisfy the need for privacy as well as communal living. With tantalizing photographs of shaded porches, stone paths lined with flowers, and wicker-filled rooms, this is an inspiration for those who want their getaway home to evoke the timeless charm of southern living.
Customer Reviews:
Southern Cottages .......2007-09-06
This was an absolute page turner for me. I thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful pictures and descriptive dialog. The photos were amazing and were varied with many interior, exterior and garden shots. The only dissapointment was coming to the end!
Fascinating subject:).......2007-05-23
Ever since I purchased a turn of the century farmhouse I have been a bit obsessed w/ reading about the history and culture of the south. I enjoyed this book and the photos but most of all I love reading about the people who choose to live a simple life:)There is something magical about this way of life. I feel so lucky to experience living in a historic home and I enjoyed reading the reviewer's home featured in the book! OMG!!!! It is an honor! CONGRATS!!!! I googled and made trips to the local museum in my area and found my farmhouse written about in a history book and it is thrilling beyond words! Hope someday the author chooses to write "The Southern Farmhouse" Hint!:)
A Treasure.......2007-05-08
Susan Sully's "The Southern Cottage" is a beautifully written book, illustrated with stunning photographs of eighteen charming cottages. In the spirit of full disclosure, my home is featured in the book (four pages of text and eight photos). I had never met Susan before she visited me last year. An officer of our local Preservation Society recommended my home, a mid-nineteenth century "story-and-a-jump" cottage rehabilitated to historic preservation standards, to her.
Susan's photos show my house as it is. All of the furniture and other items in her pictures are mine, ones that I use daily. Sometimes I sit in my parlor with Susan's book open on my lap, and think, "what a wonderful testimony to the love and care we've shown to this historic old house."
In addition to capturing the spirit of my house in photographs, Susan has written several pages describing the house (it belonged to my grandparents), our family history (including colonial settlers, sea captains, and shipwrecks), and life today on a barrier island.
So far I have read only a few other sections (each cottage has its own chapter), but if the book captures the spirit of every house as faithfully as mine (and I have every reason to believe it does) this is a book worthy of any bookshelf.
Book Description
• Exciting new approach to choosing color for the home
• Book is organized from baby blue to midnight blue—with azure, teal, robin's egg, cobalt, lapis, Ming, and Wedgwood in between
• Packed with stunning full—color photographs
Think of decorating with blue and most people think of blue and white, or maybe a touch of sunflower yellow. It's time to stop thinking small and start thinking big—big like the sky, big like the ocean. This imaginative guide shows readers exactly how to use blue, in all its many shades and tones, to create distinctive, personal palettes for the home without the stress of experimenting. Success is guaranteed every time, whether the interior is traditional, modern, country, or eclectic. Choosing Blue is packed with practical design advice on matching and choosing colors as well as ways to select accents to use with blues for wall coverings, textiles, and accessories. Choosing Blue offers an eye-opening new way to look at color in the home.
Customer Reviews:
Plenty of lovely decoration ideas for incorporating blue into an overall home scheme.......2006-04-04
Choosing Blue: Color You Can Live With discusses how to decorate with blue and complimentary combinations to create distinct home styles without experimenting. Success is guaranteed with an approach which pairs design tips with overall insights on mixing and matching complimentary colors. Organized by shades of blue, Choosing Blue provides color photos throughout and plenty of lovely decoration ideas for incorporating blue into an overall home scheme.
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Blue and white is the simplest color combination to decorate with, because most shades of blue look good with other shades of blue and because so many world cultures have produced art and home furnishings in those colors. Therefore, its subtleties are often overlooked. Stephanie Hoppen takes us on a blue-and-white tour of the world: the turquoise tiles of Turkey, the soft milky blues of Sweden, the marine blues of the Caribbean, the crisp dark blue of Chinese pottery, all set off by clean white paint, linens, and porcelain. China, glass, fabric, and tile are all featured in chapters on dining, sleeping, and bathing in blue and white, with close to 200 lovely photographs by Fritz von der Schulenberg making it all look at once peaceful and lively. There's an accessibility to the beauty of blue and white; Hoppen shows that mixing and matching shades and styles is practical and fun. As she says, "We may not live in castles, palaces, or idyllic country retreats, but we can all enjoy the beauty of blue and white living."
Book Description
Fresh and crisp with a classic appeal, the combination of blue and white is the world's most popular decorating scheme. From Chinese tiles to French fabrics, from the deep blues and bright whites of Greece to the pastels of Wedgwood china, these colors can be found around the globe, used in the most beautiful ways. With Blue & White Living, you can bring those same styles into your own home, whether you are decorating a grand mansion or a country cottage, reupholstering a sofa, or simply draping a quilt on a bed.
Stephanie Hoppen, owner of a decorative antiques gallery in London, is the ideal guide to blue and white's exciting possibilities. In Blue & White Living, Hoppen highlights the major rooms of the house--bedrooms, dining areas, living rooms, and bathrooms--in addition to devoting chapters to collectibles, fabrics, pictures, and exteriors. With careful attention to each room, she showcases the colors in all their decorative forms, including curtains, carpets, paint, pillows, crystal, porcelain, upholstery, and more. And since the book features hundreds of full-color photographs, it will immediately inspire, educate, and demonstrate why the combination of blue and white is both fresh and versatile.
Blue & White Living is a must for collectors and decorators who are interested in creating unlimited variations on a timeless theme.
Stephanie Hoppen owns The Stephanie Hoppen Gallery in London, where she is an expert dealer in decorative antiques, books, and maps. She works as an independent consultant to both private and corporate clients and is developing the merchandising of her picture archive. The author of Decorating with Pictures (Potter, 1991), she resides in London.
With the practical inspiration of Stephanie Hoppen's decorating expertise and Fritz von der Schulenburg's vivid photographs, the classic look of blue and white finds hundreds of exciting new interpretations.
Customer Reviews:
useless.......2002-07-10
Very dissappointed with this book. I did not find it at all helpful in planning a blue and white living room. The information was more common sense than proffessional advice and education.
For the most part I liked it........1999-08-06
A reader in Wisconsin
I read the book and for the most part I enjoyed it. The book have giving me many ideas on the the basic theme of blue and white. Two disappointment that I did have is that the color combinations were some what limited. (few blue-greens, violets, greyblues etc.) Also it tended to lack practical ideas for the average home. However for the most part it is helpful.
Beautiful book of blue and white decor........1999-04-05
This book is a must for anyone who loves blue and white decorating. The photographs are magnificent! I highly recommend.
Book Description
Beloved perhaps because of their importance in the natural world, the colors blue and white in decoration appear fresh, clean and at once classic and contemporary. This color combination is easy to work with; hues of cobalt, sky, aqua and powder blue (to name just a few) mix effortlessly with whites of many shades. Through informative text and inspirational photographs, Blue & White in Your Home invites you to enjoy the refreshing ambience of this pretty palette.
Beginning with an overview of the effects possible with various blues and whites, the book goes on to explain how to achieve them. It shows a range of blue and white shades and patterns in paints, wallcoverings, fabrics and ceramics; devotes a chapter to blue and white table settings; presents ideas for incorporating blue and white accessories and collectibles in your decor; and shows how the color scheme is at home outdoors.
Customer Reviews:
Love it!.......2002-04-13
I love blue and white, so this book was written for me. The photos are lovely and the text interesting. Set it up on a cookbook stand and turn one page a day for inspiration.
Another beautiful decorating book from Victoria.......2002-01-09
This is a book full of inspiring ways to use a color combination that has been popular for centuries. While I prefer the rooms that show soft blues mixed with creamy whites, brighter tones are pictured as well. The pictures and text work together in showing the reader how to create livable interiors with the feel of romantic elegance that is common to all of the decorating books published by Victoria magazine.
Average customer rating:
- A very nice coffee table book.
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The Blue and White Room
Mary Gilliatt
Manufacturer: Collins & Brown
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A very nice coffee table book........2002-03-25
This book goes into many different styles of blue and white rooms. There are some amazing ideas and beautiful pictures to explore. A nice centerpiece for a coffee table in a blue and white room.
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Indigo and white. What could be more harmonious in your home? The photos in this book prove it. This is an excellent indigo primer that shows examples of dyed textiles such as tsutsugaki, shibori, sashiko and katazome as well as kasuri weaving and sakiori, a way of recycling old textiles by tearing them in strips and weaving them into floor coverings and quilts.
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From Finland to Guatemala blue and white is a classic color combination. But nowhere is this design element more a part of the interior landscape and culture than in Japan, where blue and white appear together in fine porcelains and on tiles, in textiles, kitchenware, futon coverings and kimonos. In this delightful, popular book, available in hardcover since 1996, Amy Sylvester Katoh and photographer Yutaka Satoh blend photograph and essay to explore the mix of functionality and beauty that is at the heart of Japanese style. They offer a rich array of great design ideas-from soba cups to sinks-in blue and white. Along the way, you'll meet Japanese indigo textile craftsmen and learn about such indigo techniques as katzome, stencil dyeing, and shibori, a delicate, sophisticated form of tie-dyeing in indigo. From hats to vases, floor cushions to tea settings, Blue and White Japan is a fascinating, inspiring look at this classic design.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book to own.......2007-03-26
I live in Japan and purchased this book to see how people inter mix all the different blue and white dishes, materials and clothing. Great book to have for decorating your home. Can not wait to get to a few more Shrine Sales to pick up some more Blue and Whites.
Pottery as well as textiles -- beautiful and harmonious.......1997-02-08
This book is wonderfully photographed and written, focusing on the history of blue-and-white textiles and pottery of Japan. Just turning the pages gives a Zenlike feeling of rightness. Table settings, linens and furnishings don't have to match to give you a feeling of eating and living in calm and harmony
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Interiors in Blue (Interiors)
Rockport Publishers
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Interiors in Yellow (Interiors)
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Interiors in Red (Interiors)
ASIN: 1564964418 |
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From the deep blues of the ocean to the soft blues of a clear summer sky, the color blue brings an element of the calm outdoors to your home. Whether complementing a bright orange or blending with different shades, see how blue affects rooms created by top-level designers. Interiors in Blue will inspire you to try the color blue in new and innovative ways in your home.
Each of the lush, beautiful books in the Interiors series presents a variety of rooms in the featured color. See how professional designers handle color in a room, whether it be full washes of rich color on the walls or intricate printed patterns in the upholstery. Each book includes examples of color in every room of the home-kitchens, bedrooms, living rooms-in every style-Country, Contemporary, and Victorian. Use these affordable volumes as references to make the most out of color in your home.
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Essence of Blue
Hilary Mandleberg
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Company
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Binding: Hardcover
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Essence of Blue is the first in a series of beautifully illustrated gift books that focus on essential elements in interior decoration. Alongside stunning photos, the lively text offers insights into the role played by the color blue in one's life and home. For instance, readers will find explanations for why a bedroom is the ideal place to use blue: "Blue is a color that recedes, conjuring up a sense of space and peacefulness, so is the ideal choice for a relaxing bedroom." Images are grouped thematically, with sections on blue in nature, denim and ticking, blue in the kitchen and bedroom. Practical suggestions for incorporating these elements into decorating schemes assure that their "essence" shines through.
Customer Reviews:
Soothing Book.......2000-11-01
I have loved the color blue as long as I remember. I want to decorate with blue, but I don't want it to be overpowering or boring.
The photographs in this book show many ways to use blue and combinations of blue and other colors that are beautiful and soothing. The text explains why many people prefer this color.
I highly recommend this book.
Average customer rating:
- Great book! Much better than others
- Hillside/Sloping lots neglected (somewhat)
- 500 House Plans
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Encyclopedia of Home Designs: 500 House Plans from Award-Winning Blue Ribbon Designers (Blue Ribbon Designer Series)
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1001 All Time Best Selling Home Plans
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325 New Home Plans for 2005: Top Designs From 1,000 to 5,000 Square Feet
ASIN: 1881955362 |
Book Description
-A best-seller since 1984. -Has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to stock house plans and the home of their dreams.
-Includes 32 color pages of reader's favorites.
-Plans are unique from Volume II.
-Homes from 680 to 7,200 square feet.
-Complete construction drawings available separately.
Customer Reviews:
Great book! Much better than others.......2001-05-30
My husband and I are getting ready to build our own house and as such have purchased a lot of house plan books - learning after the first couple purchased that they all contain basically the same flor plans. This book on the other hand was a great find as we had not seen the vast majority of plans in it, but were also very pleased to find it full of very unique, aesthetically pleasing and even practical building ideas. I highly recommend this book - hands down over any other one I've seen.
Hillside/Sloping lots neglected (somewhat).......2001-01-31
This book is great if you're building on flat or very gently sloping terrain. The cross section of plans can fit most lots and the plans are very high quality either as is or as an inspiration for your own design. If you're looking for ideas for a sloping lot this is not the book. The section on hillside homes is really poor especially for a book of 500 plans!
500 House Plans.......2000-06-05
I think this book was great,and encourage people looking for houses to buy it. I'm looking for a new house and it helped me.
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