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Bring the look of the 1920s to 1950s into your home with 30 fabulous designs from the Coats & Clark archives. Whether you enjoy outfitting your rooms in totally retro style or are just adding a beautiful accent from the past to traditional or modern décor, Vintage Crochet for Your Home is full of ideas. From potholders and dishcloths to rugs and afghans, each design has the charm of...
Award-winning flower designer Shinichi Nagatsuka explains how anyone can create beautiful arrangements using his signature N Style method. Easy to follow, it is based on accent lines rather than the complex system of rules used for traditional Ikebana.
Accent lines are the natural shapes of the flowers themselves—which means vertical arrangements require a different eye than...
From the best-selling author of Villa Décor and Unmistakably French comes an insider's guide to French design secrets for home interiors. Betty Lou Phillips, America's foremost interior design expert on French style, shares some of her best-kept secrets-ones that the French seem to know instinctively. Secrets of French Design looks behind heavy lacquered doors at the design principles the French hold dear.
Less Is More tackles the very contemporary issue of de-cluttering your life. This includes not just the physical aspects of de-cluttering a home or a room, but also the emotional clutter that might be inherent in a life. This book helps clutterers learn to accept, understand and deal with the deep-seated emotions that go with cluttering, while at the same time providing smart, practical techniques, methods, and rules of thumb to clear away the
...How Your House Works, Second Edition reinforces the fact that it pays to be an informed consumer. Knowledge of your home's systems helps you control repair and construction costs and makes sure the correct elements are being installed or replaced. How Your House Works uncovers the mysteries behind just about every major appliance and building
...All over the world, consumers are discovering the merits of the small space lifestyle, abandoning the work and burdensome expense that goes with living in a "McMansion" in favor of the elegance and practicality of living in cozier spaces. From young homeowners who have rediscovered the joys of loft-style homes in the city , to empty-nesters who prefer smaller, more manageable living spaces, millions of homeowners have migrated to the "not-so-big"
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Ever wish you could have a nationally known interior designer walk through your home and save you from your very own decorating disasters? Now is your chance! With his 'take-no-prisoners' approach to home design, James Swan shares his spot-on observations about mistakes we all make as we try to decipher the world of home décor and design. His fresh, frank way of looking at rooms liberates us from the safe, predictable edicts
...Washing the dishes is an ordinary, everyday task—but with examination and care, it can become much more. In this reverent guide to the household chore, Peter Miller shows us how washing dishes can become a joy, a delight, a meditative exercise, and an act of grace and rhythm.
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“Subversive in the best possible way.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author
The Abundance of Less captures the texture of sustainable lives well lived in these 10...
From Apartment Therapy's cooking site, The Kitchn, comes 150 recipes and a cooking school with 50 essential lessons, as well as a guide to organizing your kitchen—plus storage tips, tool reviews, inspiration from real kitchens, maintenance suggestions, 200 photographs, and much more. WITH 18 RECIPES EXCLUSIVE TO THE EBOOK EDITION.
“There is no question that the kitchen is the most important room of the home,”