Flea Market Fabulous: Designing Gorgeous Rooms with Vintage Treasures

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Focusing on nine different rooms (including her own recently purchased Manhattan apartment), Lara Spencer shows readers that all it takes is planning, shopping know-how, and a little imagination to create beautiful and comfortable homes that reflect their personal style. She takes readers through the step-by-step process of overcoming the challenges of the room, offering helpful tips and lessons along the way. She identifies the design dilemma; comes up with a decorating plan; makes a mood board for inspiration; compiles a shopping list; scours flea markets for furniture and accessories that fit the bill; restores, repurposes, and reinvents the pieces she finds, giving them new life; and brings all the elements together in the gorgeous, finished space. With illuminating before, during, and after photographs of her DIY projects and the room installations, Lara demystifies the decorating process and allows readers to envision endless possibilities for what they can do in their own homes.

Playful Home: Creative Style Ideas for Living with Kids

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Tapping into today's trend to return to unstructured playtime and move away from over-scheduling and electronic games, "Playful Home" is perfectly suited to the times. Andrew Weaving celebrates the best of childhood, from his favorite games and crafts projects to the whimsical decor that kids love. The result is kids' rooms designed to feed and inspire the imagination, as well as to hold fabulous collections of toys and books.
With the philosophy of integrating play into our daily lives, "Playful Home" looks at twelve family homes designed with children in mind, from the foyer to the back door, which stylishly embrace kids' activities and interests. The featured spaces are the kids' rooms, which combine flair and fun so successfully that they end up being the hub of the entire house.
Including design ideas for displaying toys and collectibles, plus clever ways of storing them, as well as great tips on how to make murals and unique wall decorations, "Playful Home" inspires creativity as well as good design.

Shades of Light: Making Tailored Lampshades

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Design inspiration and practical instruction for a satisfying home craft needing small work space, little specialist equipment, and plenty of reusing and recycling..; An invaluable practical reference guide, which includes both clear written instructions and helpful illustrations, this book explores the history of lampshade-making, its trends and design inspirations. It looks at the technical elements required, shows the techniques needed to make the shade properly in the traditional way, and then explores more advanced techniques such as chiffon swathing and knife pleating. Once the reader has understood the potential of the hand-crafted shade, he or she can begin the design process, even using creative skills from other disciplines. The great thing about lampshade-making is that it doesn't require a large financial outlay and can involve a lot of reusing and recycling. For readers who want to create something beautiful, unique, and practical but don't have unlimited resources or a wealth of technical skills, home craft could be just the project.

Away at Home: Creating Relaxed Spaces of Your Own

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Live every day like you're on vacation with tips, tricks, and inspiration for creating a relaxed home. That sun-drenched feeling of a perfect vacation shouldn't have to go away when you get back home. Taking inspiration from road trips, beach houses, boutique hotels, and summer holidays spent playing under a sprinkler, Mr. Jason Grant shows you how to style your spaces to capture that vacation feeling in your own home. With tips for making your yard feel like your own private resort, holiday-style entertaining, how to choose a color palette for the perfect holiday vibes, bringing the outdoors in, and upcycling found and secondhand items, Away at Home is filled with inspiration and practical information for making your living spaces into your own little patches of paradise.

House Beautiful Think Small: Make the Most of Every Square Foot

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The editors of "House Beautiful" magazine have assembled another title in their informal series of home-decorating books in which much expert advice is provided. Here the focus is on small dwellings from 295-square-foot studio apartments to single family homes of 1,650-square-feet. Professional interior designers describe in the captions of more than 170 color photographs the design techniques they used to create attractive, comfortable surroundings for clients as well as in their own homes. The emphasis is on employing all available space and selecting multipurpose furniture, but also includes advice that may seem counterintuitive, such as using oversized furniture and bold color. "Anatomy of a Home" displays an entire dwelling with tips on how the decor accommodates the inhabitants' needs. VERDICT The variety of suggestions from professional designers will provide novices with a wealth of stylish decorating ideas to use in their own homes, whether small or large. Copyright 2014 Library Journal

Cabins & Cottages and Other Small Spaces

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In this collection from Fine Homebuilding magazine, the authors look at houses both new and remodeled, urban and rural, traditional and modern, and even a few of the truly quirky. The houses exude as much style as homes many times their square footage and all are as big as they need to be to fit the lifestyles and aspirations of the people who live in them. Included will also be a section of sheds, studios and other small structures demonstrating interesting uses of small spaces."