Let's Ask Michael by Michael Payne, ISBN 0071416277
HOME SWEET STYLISH HOME
Michael Payne -popular host of the HGTV's hit series, "Designing for the Sexes - brings his unique talents and expertise to this beautiful and practical reference designed to help homeowners find stylish solutions to today's most challenging home design dilemmas.
REAL LIFE QUESTIONS ASKED BY REAL LIFE PEOPLE:
Utilizing a vibrant full-color format, Michael answers such questions as:
* I want a classic Victorian theme in my family room, where do I begin?
* Our new living room has 20-foot ceilings and makes furniture look miniature, what should we do?
* We want color in our room, but have no idea where to start, what do you suggest?
Michael Payne's ingenious--and beautiful--answers will give you ideas you'll want to try in your own home. Whether you're married or single, you'll appreciate the exciting decorating solutions in "Let's Ask Michael. This book --
* Puts 100 complete design answers in front of your eyes in gorgeous 4-color, 2-page spreads
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Beautiful Interiors: An Expert's Guide to Creating a More Liveable Home
The work of Chris Little, an Atlanta-based photographer specializes in corporate and residential interiors with many award-winning designers is shown throughout the book.
Award-winning designer Charles Gandy creates an amazingly informative guide to the ABCs of interior decorating. Through beautifully photographed homes in a variety of styles, this very basic reference presents the fundamentals of design, such as line, rhythm, scale, shape, form, pattern, and proportion. There's advice on setting the stage and establishing an overall mood through light and color, as well as floor, wall, ceiling, door, and window choices. Fabric, furniture, and other embellishments receive their own special section, and a room-by-room tour covers everything from entry halls to home libraries. For a final touch, Gandy discusses the WOW factor: the elusive quality that makes a space extra-special. "A Selection of the Homestyle Book Club.
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Decorating Easy: Create a Simple, Comfortable Home with Pure Style
The book details how to put an entire room together, from the basic architectural structure and use of space, through the furniture and fittings, down to the small but essential decorative finishes. The main body of the book, Decorating Secrets, has complete schemes for every room in the house from the entrance to the garden. Essential information is given on preparation work and other practical aspects of DIY that need to be considered, including working up designs and sketches, putting together color and pattern, working to a budget and the core decorators? tools needed to get the job done. There are features on the key areas that transform a room, from adequate storage in the kitchen to calming color in the bedroom. A section with Twenty Things to Make and Do contains full instructions for a range of projects for stylish finishing touches, including decorative painting ideas, soft furnishings and home accessories to give a home its heart.
Decorating Easy: Create a Simple, Comfortable Home with Pure Style
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Making Fine Furniture: Perfect Results with Power Tools
Even those with no woodworking experience at all can experience the satisfaction of making beautiful furniture--right away. The secret lies in modern-day power tools, which allow anyone to produce first-class results without years of practice. And this superbly illustrated and easy-to-follow guide shows novices the way to success. It contains all the information necessary to a fundamental understanding of the craft, including essential descriptions of wood's characteristics, explanations of the basic principles of furniture construction, and guidance on all the necessary techniques. Buying lumber, planing, jointing, gluing, and using the tablesaw, bandsaw, routers, and drills: it's all here. For every one of the projects--which include a chest of drawers, bookcase, and end table--each procedure is shown in fine detail.
Making Fine Furniture: Perfect Results with Power Tools
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Decorating Easy: Create a Simple, Comfortable Home with Pure Style
The book details how to put an entire room together, from the basic architectural structure and use of space, through the furniture and fittings, down to the small but essential decorative finishes. The main body of the book, Decorating Secrets, has complete schemes for every room in the house from the entrance to the garden. Essential information is given on preparation work and other practical aspects of DIY that need to be considered, including working up designs and sketches, putting together color and pattern, working to a budget and the core decorators? tools needed to get the job done. There are features on the key areas that transform a room, from adequate storage in the kitchen to calming color in the bedroom. A section with Twenty Things to Make and Do contains full instructions for a range of projects for stylish finishing touches, including decorative painting ideas, soft furnishings and home accessories to give a home its heart.
Decorating Easy: Create a Simple, Comfortable Home with Pure Style
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Santa Fe: A Walk Through Time
In Santa Fe: A Walk Through Time, author Kingsley Hammett takes us on a tour of downtown historic Santa Fe, capturing the architecture in both photographs and essays. He tells the stories of the buildings that have come and gone; who lived, worked, and played in them; and the continual changes that make Santa Fe what it is today-a town of adobe architecture that blends with the high desert landscape, a destination spot for art lovers, culinary enthusiasts, and Epicureans alike. Relive the history, nostalgia, and old-time romance of one of America's favorite cities. Kingsley Hammett has been working as a journalist since 1979 and is publisher of DESIGNER/builder magazine. He holds a master's degree in both journalism and humanities/history. Kingsley is the author of three books on New Mexican furniture: Crafting New Mexican Furniture, Classic New Mexican Furniture, and Early New Mexican Furniture. He has lived in Santa Fe, with his wife Jerilou, for nearly twenty-five years.
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