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Interior Design & Decoration by Stanley Abercrombie (Paperback - Prentice Hall)
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Concrete Countertops Made Simple by Fu Tung Cheng (PACKAGE - Taunton Pr)
Accompanied by a host of color photographs, detailed drawings, and a DVD, a companion volume to <IT>Concrete Countertops<RO> offers a step-by-step, hands-on approach to guide readers through the process of designing, forming, pouring, finishing, and installing a beautiful, durable, and stylish countertop. Original.
Domino by Conde Nast (Hardcover - Simon & Schuster)
The editors of <IT>Domino <RO>magazine present a guide to furnishing and decorating every room of a home, in a reference that demonstrates strategic layouts and includes insider shopping tips. 150,000 first printing.
It's All Too Much by Peter Walsh (Paperback - Reprint)
The organizational advisor for TLC's <IT>Clean Sweep <RO>outlines a program for home organization and clutter elimination as a means of reducing stress, in a reference that makes step-by-step recommendations for addressing related psychological obstacles. By the author of <IT>How to Organize (Just About) Everything. <RO>Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
Solar Power Your Home for Dummies by Rik Degunther (Paperback - For Dummies)
The Not So Big Remodeling by Sarah Susanka (Hardcover - Taunton Pr)
The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery (Paperback - Sasquatch Books)
A revised and expanded guidebook to sustainable, self-sufficient living uses anecdotes, advice, and good humor to introduce a wide array of topics, from growing food to cooking and canning, cultivating a garden, raising farm animals, churning butter, and more. Original. $20,000 ad/promo.
It's All Too Much by Peter Walsh (Paperback - Workbook)
Fences & Gates by Not Available (Paperback - Better Homes & Gardens Books)
Covering a wide range of outdoor living projects, a colorful manual uses step-by-step photographs, detailed diagrams, and instructions to guide homeowners through the planning, design, materials selection, and construction of a variety of fence and gate options. Original.
Preventive Maintenance for Multi-Family Housing by John C. Maciha (Paperback - R S Means Co)
Inside the Not So Big House by Sarah Susanka (Paperback - Taunton Pr)
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Wiring by Not Available (Paperback - Creative Pub Intl)
Design Ideas for Decks & Patios by Heidi King (Paperback - Revised)
Featuring more than 350 full-color photographs, an inspirational handbook of ideas for adding a deck or patio presents a panoramic array of styles to suit any taste or budget, with examples of floating, single-level, and multi-level designs, as well as ideas for add-on structures, guidelines on the latest materials, outdoor furnishings and media equipment, cooking equipment, and more. Original.
Black & Decker The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair by Not Available (Hardcover - Creative Pub I
New Fix-It-Yourself Manual by Reader's Digest (Hardcover - Putnam Pub Group)
In more than 3,000 instructional photos, illustrations, charts and diagrams, the New Fix-it-Yourself Manual shows you how to troubleshoot faulty appliances, repair them, and put them back together so they work as good as new. It gives you the same essential information on furniture and other household items as well, providing homeowners with precisely the time- and money-saver they need. 1,030 full-color photos.
Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic by Rachel Ashwell (Hardcover - Regan Books)
It helps the healthiness both of body and soul to live among beautiful things. --designer William Morris, 1882 Shabby Chic--the rich, inviting, practical, time-worn style created by one of America's top designers, Rachel Ashwell, is a style of living that reflects the grace and simplicity of another time.Now you can do more than just dream of living in a Shabby Chic home. You can create one yourself. With invaluable treasure hunting advice and tips for essential materials, furniture, objects, and decorations, you can live a life of simple, but rich, beauty. With her practiced eye Rachel takes you on a tour of flea markets, antique malls, and a variety of secondhand sales--estate, tag, yard, church, garage--to demonstrate how, with a little taste, imagination, work, and ingenuity, you can turn trinkets from the past into treasures for today. As Rachel sifts through the discarded, the crumbling, the shabby, she takes you step by step through her personal process, sharing how you, too, can spot a fabulous buy, repair and alter it, and by following her guideline words--comfort, function, and beauty--develop your own distinctive, original look that is down-to-earth yet truly exquisite. Following her sensible advice you an exchange the anonymity of mass-produced furniture and home accessories for unique, inviting surroundings for a fraction of the cost and decorate comfortable, livable rooms in which family heirlooms blend with flea-market finds and the new combines gracefully with the well worn. Lavishly illustrated with lovely and informative photographs and drawings, Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Treasure Hunting & Decorating Guideshows you how to have the home you've always dreamed of, a place where children's dinners are served on mix-and-match antique plates at a table covered with lace from a renovated curtain set with unironed linen napkins. A space where fresh flowers stand in antique jugs, complementing comfortable furniture covered in crisp white denim that is enhanced with each laundering. For Rachel, Shabby Chic is not just style. It is a way of living. With her trademark warmth and charm she reveals how she sleeps on embroidered antique linen and dresses in cashmeres and bias-cut silk dresses discovered in vintage clothing shops and flea markets. Throughout, she teaches you how to recognize and appreciate beauty in unlikely and often overlooked places, as well as how to define and refine your individual taste. Worn damask, relaxed velvets, tea-stained florals, washed-out cotton prints, tattered lace, monogrammed linen...Comforting colors: celadon, mint, and seafoam greens; dusty rose; ivories, creams, and faded grays; a touch of pale sky blue; crisp, clean white...Faded granduer: the incomplete, the neglected, the crumbling, the cracked, the mismatched, the wrinkled...Ruffles, gathers, tucks; scuffs, chips, imperfections; worn moldings, tired elegance, peeling paint...An appreciation of vintage and history...This is Shabby Chic
Hull Historical Molding Catalog by Brent Hull (Paperback - Fox Chapel Pub Co Inc)
Country Style Kitchens by Tina Skinner (Paperback - Schiffer Pub Ltd)
Cast-in-place Concrete Countertops by Tom Ralston (Hardcover - Bilingual)
Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui by Karen Kingston (Paperback - Broadway Books)
The author of the international bestseller "Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui" presents a concise guide to clearing clutter from the home, as well as from the body, mind, and spirit. Line drawings.