Matthew Mead's Ultimate Recycled Style Guide

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Discover how to transform common flea market finds into fabulous treasures to feather your nest with the help of design expert Matthew Mead.
Re-imagine every room of your home with this collection of stunning photos and expert tips for cleaning, painting, and re-crafting.
Be inspired by every gorgeous page filled with colorful, creative, and chic ideas. Flea market shoppers, bargain hunters, crafters, and anyone who appreciates great design will find plenty to love in Matthew Mead's Ultimate Recycled Style Guide.

How to Live in Small Spaces: Design, Furnishing, Decoration, Detail for the Smaller Home

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In How to Live in Small Spaces, Terence Conran explains that what's paramount to livability is not the square footage you have, but how you divide it. In this comprehensive, full-color book, Conran tackles the many challenges posed by small spaces. Chapters cover storage, bedrooms, children's rooms, lighting, extension and much more. "Assessing your needs" checklists and "Points to consider" sidebars add valuable ideas. Six case studies conclude the book with excellent examples of great designs.

Good Bones, Great Pieces: The Seven Essential Pieces That Will Carry You Through a Lifetime

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The McGraths, the mother and daughter team who write the popular blog goodbonesgreatpieces.com, identify items of furniture they feel add extra flair to residential interiors: the love seat, demilune, bench, dresser, slipper chair, side table, and occasional table. With close to 200 color photographs, the McGraths justify their choices by describing the pieces' versatility--a bench can provide seating at a dining table--the use of the pieces in their own homes and residential commissions, and the color and decorative accessories to complement each piece. For each item, they offer a selection of various styles with emphasis on quality construction and timeless design. A list of resources is provided. VERDICT The decorating tips contained in this book will give amateurs an abundance of ideas for adding special touches to their decor. Library Journal (09/01/2012):

Fairy Gardening: Creating Your Own Magical Miniature Garden

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Fairy gardens are enjoying an astonishing surge in popularity and now you can begin making your own enchanting miniature landscapes, complete with pint-sized accessories, diminutive plants, and quaint fairy figures. Gardeners Julie Bawden-Davis and Beverly Turner provide you with step-by-step instructions for creating a magical garden that will attract Thumbelina herself! Learn how to design, plant, accessorize, and care for your very own small corner of the world by following seven simple steps, including choosing the perfect container, planting luxurious pint-sized plants, decorating with properly scaled accessories, and telling a story through the delicate fairies you choose to inhabit your magical wonderland. Included are full-color photographs showcasing various types of fairy gardens and accessories, which are sure to inspire the designer in you! And best of all, these perennial gardens are perfect for the busy gardener, as they require less than ten minutes per week to maintain--this could be your new favorite hobby! For the inner child in us all, Fairy Gardening is sure to enchant both the novice and the experienced gardener who wishes to stir up Lilliputian flights of fancy.

The Organic Backyard Vineyard: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growing Your Own Grapes

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In "The Organic Backyard Vineyard" expert Tom Powers walks the small grower through the entire process of growing grapes, with a month-by-month maintenance guide covering all regions of the U.S. and Canada. He explains everything a beginning grape grower needs to know: how to design and build a vineyard, how to select grapes for each region, how to maximize yield using organic maintenance techniques, how to build a trellis, how to harvest at peak flavor, and how to store grapes for wine-making.
Updated from his self-published version, this edition includes organic growing information and all new photography. "The Organic Backyard Vineyard" features everything a wine lover needs to build and care for a backyard vineyard.

Country Living Simple Sustainable Style: Ways to Make a House Your Home

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In his previous book, "Restore. Recycle. Repurpose.: Create a Beautiful Home", Florke discussed his decorating style with an eye toward sustainability. Here he focuses on his "three muses of design: comfort, economy, and color," as demonstrated in seven homes, from an Iowa farmhouse to a Harlem, rowhouse. Accompanied by more than 150 color photographs, Florke describes the renovation and decoration of the kitchens, living and dining rooms, bedrooms (including kids' rooms), bathrooms, and porches with decorating advice and tips on the restoration process. Safety concerns, flea market shopping advice, and exterior design suggestions are also included.
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The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life

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Kirkus Reviews (11/01/2012):
Reflections on being saved, and finding happiness, through gardening. Early in the book, Roach (And I Shall Have Some Peace There, 2011, etc.) includes a quote from Bertrand Russell: "Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite." This conundrum encapsulates this third book from Roach, a longtime blogger and former editor for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. From the descriptions within, the author gardens in much the same way she writes--nothing is turned away, provided there's a suitable space for it. Roach considers the sounds of gardening, terminology, different pricings of what she grows to sell, childhood gardens, the passing of seasons--both for a garden and for a person--and the contributions of science toward the creation of a more pleasing experience of garden tending. The author is also unafraid of poking fun at herself and the many well-entrenched habits of gardening she cannot back away from--for example, having spent a lifetime gardening in long pants, she tried shorts only to relent within the half-hour, feeling that she was doing a disservice to the colors of the flowers with "the color of the canvas I provide with my tender flesh." Roach scatters gardening tips throughout the book, noting that other books provide more along those lines but that these tips are shared in the interest of spurring on readers to return to their own gardens. Many a gardener will likely find that motivation from this pleasant book. COPYRIGHT(2012) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.