Contemporary dining room furniture > Elegant and Easy Living Rooms: 100 Trade Secrets for Designing with Style by Dylan Landis, ISBN 0440508592

Elegant and Easy Living Rooms: 100 Trade Secrets for Designing with Style by Dylan Landis, ISBN 0440508592

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You've admired those gorgeous living rooms in design magazines. Now you can create your own -- a living room that's a personal haven for you, a magnetic gathering spot for friends. Whether you want a design overhaul or just a few beautiful upgrades, this compendium is packed with designer-tested (and budget-conscious) tips. Metropolitan Home contributing editor Dylan Landis has gathered the best trade secrets from top interior decorators and compiled them in this user-friendly guide to decorating with personal style -- whatever your budget. Discover:
-- How to resist the big decorating myth (hint: white walls will not make your living room look larger)
-- The best taupes, corals, reds, and other specific paint colors that the pros love for living rooms
-- Restful, romantic ways to brighten a living room starved for sun
-- Simple ways to make your ceiling look higher (or lower)
-- Why every living room needs one unexpected and quirky chair
-- Perfect patinas to gently age any wall (think Roman ruins, or Victorian smoking rooms)

PLUS...Details that make a living room feel instantly intimate...Spectacular ways to reinvent the coffee table...How to take the starch out of a too-formal living room...

Peek-A-Boo, Lizzy Lou!: A Daytime Book & Muppet Puppet with Other by Lauren Attinello, ISBN 076110948X

From bedroom to hall to dining room, Lizzy Lou finds her friends everywhere, in delightful rhymes that will have children chiming in, as if on cue, with "Peek-a-boo!" Here is a bouncy tale for curious toddlers, filled with the rambunctious spirits of playtime and the comfortingly familiar routine of a favorite game. Comes with a nine-inch yellow puppet. Full color. & up. Peek-A-Boo, Lizzy Lou!: A Daytime Book & Muppet Puppet with Other by Lauren Attinello, ISBN 076110948X
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Window Treatments & Slipcovers for Dummies

Gain inspiration from 8 pages of full-color photos

Create a stunning room with dozens of step-by-step projects

Want to ditch your drab drapes and so-so slipcovers and create a style that's uniquely your own? Top designer Mark Montano reveals how easy it is to jazz up your windows and furniture — without breaking the bank! You get expert tips on everything from measuring and cutting material to accessorizing, as well as savvy shortcuts and quick fixes.

Window Treatments & Slipcovers for Dummies

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French Country at Home:

Whether you go wall-to-wall or simply select a few mood-setting accents, this exquisitely photographed idea book will inspire the French country designer within. Pull together a bedroom with a jaunty Provencal fabric, furnish the dining area with handsomely carved antique pieces, or warm up a sterile space with charmingly rugged architectural details. Use decorative touches from wrought iron fixtures to rich color schemes, to infuse every type of room--living room, kitchen, bath, even the patio-with earthy, romantic appeal. Charming details help keep the country feel and capture the quaint, rustic flavor of traditional French rural life, even in the most modern American home. The result: a look that's elegant yet succeeds in staying cozy and comfortable, too. French Country at Home:
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Window Treatments & Slipcovers for Dummies

Gain inspiration from 8 pages of full-color photos

Create a stunning room with dozens of step-by-step projects

Window Treatments & Slipcovers for Dummies

Contemporary dining room furniture > Window Treatments & Slipcovers for Dummies

Remarkable Service: A Guide to Winning and Keeping Customers for Servers, Managers, and Restaurant Owners by Culinary Institute of America, ISBN 0471380229

Topics include: Dining room and kitchen organization and personnelReservations, greeting, and seatingClassic and modern styles of table service Beverage and wine serviceMoney handlingService challenges– – what to do when things go wrongFront-of-the-house safety and sanitation

Industry surveys consistently show that service is the number one reason that people come back to a restaurant– or dine elsewhere. With competition increasing for today’ s dining dollar, restaurants must go beyond culinary excellence to ensure their success. They must offer Remarkable ServiceSM, the kind of service that makes guests feel comfortable, makes dining out enjoyable, and creates customer loyalty.

This book offers unique, comprehensive coverage of the principles, standards, and practices that are the hallmark of truly Remarkable ServiceSM. Written by The Culinary Institute of America, which has been hailed by Time magazine as " the nation’ s most influential training school...

Remarkable Service: A Guide to Winning and Keeping Customers for Servers, Managers, and Restaurant Owners by Culinary Institute of America, ISBN 0471380229

Contemporary dining room furniture > Remarkable Service: A Guide to Winning and Keeping Customers for Servers, Managers, and Restaurant Owners by Culinary Institute of America, ISBN 0471380229

Kit's Magnetic Mini World

Girls have a fun new way to explore the worlds of the American Girls! They will love playing with Kit and her best friend, Ruthie, in scenes they set up themselves, from Kit's attic bedroom to her classroom at Gates Elementary School. A variety of magnets can be endlessly arranged and rearranged--and they stay put during play. Perfect for travel, Kit's Magnetic Mini World includes: 2 dolls in 4 different outfits; 2 magnetic scenes; 28 magnetic furniture pieces and accessories; and a booklet about furniture and customs in Kit's time. Kit's Magnetic Mini World
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