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101 Bedrooms: Stylish Room Solutions
by Julie Savill Details
The 101 bedroom ideas in this book are grouped by style: Contemporary - Classic - Country - Creative - Budget - Bohemian. Each room is illustrated with a full-color photograph and accompanied by invaluable information on the specific features of the room, including color, lighting, accessories and flooring. There is a directory of useful suppliers at the back of the book you'll have everything you need to recreate the look for yourself.
Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In
by Bryan Batt Details
From a charmed New Orleans childhood to a successful acting career on Broadway and the award-winning TV show "Mad Men" to the opening of his popular Big Easy home furnishings boutique, Hazelnut, Bryan Batt has always turned to home design as a creative outlet. To him, the best rooms are unexpected yet refined and, above all, evoke emotion. "Big, Easy Style" showcases rooms that make Bryan smile, with pages of rich photography featuring the work of many designers and plenty of Crescent City interiors framed by his own entertaining maxims on color, pattern, collecting, living areas, intimate spaces, and more.
Bringing Tuscany Home: Sensuous Style from the Heart of Italy
by Frances Mayes Details
This is a lavishly illustrated book for everyone who dreams of integrating the Tuscan lifestyle -- from home decoration and cooking, to eating and drinking, to gardening, socializing, and celebrating -- into their own lives. When Frances Mayes fell in love with Tuscany and Bramasole, millions of readers basked in the experience through her three bestselling memoirs. Now Frances and her husband share the essence of Tuscan life as they have lived it, with specific ideas and inspiration for readers stateside to bring the beauty and spirit of Tuscany into their own home decor, meals, gardens, entertaining and, most important, outlook on life.
Decorating Small Spaces
by Vicki L. Ingham Details
Tiny rooms don't have to make you feel claustrophobic. You can expand the sense of space -- and make rooms work better -- with the help of some simple tricks. This book will help readers learn how to combine space-enhancing principles with personal style to make a small home feel like your castle.
House Beautiful Style 101: 400 Designer Secrets to a Beautiful Home
by Lisa Cregan Details
Want to change your home? Baffled by all the available design choices? "House Beautiful" helps you define your style -- and get the look you love in every room. With advice and insider tips from dozens of designers, this entry in the magazine's popular pocket guide series simplifies all your decorating decisions.
Romantic Prairie Style: Homes Inspired by Traditional Country Life
by Fifi O'Neill Details
This book embraces simple pleasures, comfort, and the long-cherished ideals of natural beauty, simplicity, and harmony with the earth. It's a style that says home wherever you may be because, more than anything else, it's a mindset: gentle but strong, welcoming and lasting, durable yet sophisticated, and, above all, real.
Shabby Chic: Inspirations and Beautiful Spaces
by Rachel Ashwell Details
Ashwell shares her inspirations and her humor, celebrates the charm of the old and battered, and demonstrates time and again how interiors touched with her magic transcend fashionable trends, extending a calming, personal welcome to all.
The Perfectly Imperfect Home: How to Decorate and Live Well
by Deborah Needleman Details
Style is a luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy. Over the years, founding editor-in-chief of Domino magazine Deborah Needleman has seen all kinds of rooms, with all kinds of furnishings. Her conclusion: It's not hard to create a relaxed, stylish, and comfortable home. Just a few well-considered items can completely change the feel of your space, and "The Perfectly Imperfect Home" reveals them all.
Undecorate: The No-Rules Approach to Interior Design
by Christiane Lemieux Details
Jettison the old rulebooks about home décor and "undecorate" your space. As the founder and creative director of DwellStudio -- which is famous for its brightly colored, graphic textile designs for home furnishings -- designer Christiane Lemieux challenges tradition in a quintessentially American way, championing a fresh, unconventional approach to creating a beautiful and comfortable home.
Updated 01/10/2012
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