Small Spaces: Maximizing Limited Spaces for Living (The Small Book of Home Ideas series) Reviews
Built-In Furniture: A Gallery of Design Ideas (Idea Book)
Readers will be inspired by this series of visual ideas for some of the most-used rooms in the house. Each book is rich with beautiful color photographs, practical sidebars -- and designs of all kinds that will appeal to a wide range of tastes and budgets.
With Built-In Furniture Jim Tolpin has put together an idea book, a lushly illustrated look at built-in furniture through history and in modern homes, from Shaker attic storage systems to Frank Lloyd Wright room designs to contemporary dream houses. A blending of furniture and architecture, built-ins are known for saving space, but Tolpin takes us to a new level of art and inventive design; for example, he depicts a cleverly designed, secure document-storage area that is completely hidden behind a pivoting bookcase. Even a casual page-through reveals hundreds of useful, creative ideas, such as a revolving entertainment center, hidden storage rooms, and elegant but sturdy built-in shelves. Built-In Furniture will have you walking from room to room, fantasizing about built-in projects that you could construct yourself.
Best-selling author Jim Tolpin explores new ways to design and construct built-in furniture throughout the home. Includes design ideas for window seats, benches, bookcases, storage cabinets -- even entertainment centers.
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Leave a commentBlack & Decker Finishing Basements & Attics: Ideas & Projects for Expanding Your Living Space
Black & Decker Finishing Basements & Attics: Ideas & Projects for Expanding Your Living Space
About This Book:This book shows homeowners how to accomplish perhaps the greatest and most rewarding of all do-it-yourself projects: converting the unfinished space in a basement or attic into comfortable, safe, and truly customized living areas. Many Americans grew up in homes that had "finished" basements (do dark wood paneling and a sloping pool table sound familiar?), and their parents likely used one of the books still available on the how-to shelf. But today's homeowners are claiming their unfinished square footage for more specific uses: high-tech home offices, fully equipped home theaters, and secondary living spaces for aging relatives. For these new "home spaces", Finishing Basements & Attics is the up-to-date guide they need. An Ideas section at the front of the book provides inspiration for a variety of creative, functional options, followed by an overview of basement and attic Dos and Don'ts. The rest of the book is devoted to useful projects. These cover the essentials, from framing around pipes and ductwork to building knee walls in an attic, as well as popular specialty jobs, like wiring a home theater and installing a skylight. The projects are designed not only to appeal to today's consumer but to teach readers the fundamental techniques of each task, so that they can adapt the given project for their specific situations.
Highlights:
Contains over 300 color photos and illustrations.
Features dozens of step-by-step projects, including plumbing a basement bathroom, adding forced-air ducts, and installing a window in a gable wall.
Aimed at consumer trends toward cocooning and working from home offices.
Shows all aspects of the remodeling process, including wiring, plumbing, insulating, finishing walls and ceilings, and installing windows and doors.
Includes an idea section with color photographs of successful basement and attic conversions.
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New Cottage Style : Decorating Ideas for Casual, Comfortable Living (Better Homes and Gardens)
New Cottage Style : Decorating Ideas for Casual, Comfortable Living (Better Homes and Gardens)
- Decorating ideas to achieve a cottage look that’s clean, simple, and light.
- New and remodeled homes that incorporate cottage style via architectural features and easy decorating choices.
- Secrets to creating harmony and simplicity with paint, furniture, fabrics, and accessories.
- Examples of projects in the country, the woods, suburbia, and oceanfront locations.
- Practical ideas and decorating techniques to create a comfortable getaway look.
- Effective color schemes that achieve a serene palette.
Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure: Ideas and Inspiration for Your Garden
A ready reference of stimulating garden features from all over the world.
Renowned garden designer Derek Fell has compiled more than 800 photographs to create a personal scrapbook of his favorite design features from around the world. Together with his insightful commentary, they provide a wealth of ideas and inspiration for the home gardener.
The book features:
- A-Z listing of more than 100 design categories, from balconies and paths to abstract concepts like silhouettes, framing, and whimsy
- More than 800 fully captioned, full-color photographs of award-winning gardens
- Hundreds of practical suggestions for garden planning, planting, and design, and achieving year-round interest.
Valuable tips on plant cultivation mingle with garden history and elegant description as Fell guides readers through famed gardens such as Monet's Clos Normand, Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and Rome's Villa d'Este, plus private gardens like his own Cedaridge Farm.
Country Living: 750 Style and Design Ideas for Home and Garden (Country Living),
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Outdoor Living Idea Book (Taunton Home Idea Books)
Even if you have a small piece of land behind your home–whether it’s in the country or the city–you, too, can create your own outdoor room. An outdoor room can be as simple as a barbeque grill and a table and chairs on a patio or as elaborate as an outdoor guest bedroom complete with a teak-framed bed and outdoor fireplace. Creating outdoor living spaces is the new American pastime, with homeowners wanting to create a place in their backyard that extends their living space and capitalizes on all the outdoors has to offer, whether it’s relaxing by the pool, playing a game of volleyball with the kids, or hosting an al fresco dinner party on the patio. Whatever your desire, you can have it! Outdoor Living Idea Book features hundreds of the latest ideas for creating outdoor living spaces of all kinds, from cooking and dining to entertaining and relaxing to playing, no matter what size yard you have and what your budget. Creative examples of furnishings and accessories, landscaping, lighting, sculpture, and water features offer readers the most up-to-date ideas for adding style to any outdoor space.
Topics covered include:
Outdoor Kitchens
Dining & Entertainment
Furniture & Accessories
Pools & Recreation
Landscaping
Storage
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