Interior Decorating BooksSometimes, you just have to see something written or shown on a page, that you can study and refer to again and again. When that happens, there is no substitute for a beautiful interior decorating book!
These resources are filled with helpful ideas, loads of pictures and they are actually very practical 'study guides' for every area of your home. Select one or all for your home decorating library! These interior and home decorating books are categorized by room and also by style, so it's easy and simple to find what you are looking for. Take a few minutes to peruse the ever growing, hand-selected (by me, of course!) books and resources for your home interior design projects. DECORATING AND DESIGN Candice's fresh, honest approach to design shows readers how to create rooms that are beautiful and functional, perfectly geared to what they love and how they live. With her trademark humor and sense of fun, Candice shares design secrets, smart tips, and practical advice to help readers plan and execute successful room makeovers. 24 dramatic before-and-after room transformations reinvent living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and more. Details bring a room to life--and "House Beautiful" shows how to make every room special by accentuating exquisite finishing touches. Each chapter covers a different room, focusing on such eye-catching features as colorful crockery on open kitchen shelves, elaborate glass chandeliers shimmering with light in the dining room, scenic wall treatments, and crystal beads sparkling on pillows. From glamorous to minimalist, there are beautiful examples for every taste, and each chapter has an introduction, a gallery of photos, tips, and three sidebars focusing on popular decorating styles. LIVING & DINING ROOM
LIVING AND DINING ROOMS
LIVING ROOMS
Offers sixty illustrated, easy-to-follow projects and hundreds of ideas for living and dining rooms, from painted floors and walls to small furniture and fixture makeovers. Original. 50,000 first printing. BEDROOM Decorating the bedroom poses some unique challenges, but with this "Country Living Easy Transformations" guide walking you through the process, you'll successfully create an attractive and relaxing personal sanctuary. Find out how small changes can yield big results; go retro or romantic; soundproof for true tranquility; incorporate a home office into the space; and fully express your personality.
Providing a host of ideas for creating an attractive, comfortable bedroom for adults or children, this interior design guide features excellent advice on how to organize the room, the best styles of decoration, the appropriate lighting, and the choice of bed. The book is organized into easy-to-use sections, starting with making the best use of space, proceeding to the initial planning, offering decorative options, learning all about the bed, choosing the rest of the furnishings, and, lastly, offering ideas on where to go for what. BATHROOM After the kitchen, the bathroom is the best investment a homeowner can make, especially in a tight real estate market. And, again like a kitchen, bathrooms can be deal breakers if there are too few or they are outdated. So the success--and ultimate value--of a new bathroom depends on making the right choices when it comes to fixtures and finishes, bathing options, layout, and storage. Design Ideas for Bathrooms, Second Edition (2009) informs homeowners about the latest products and trends in bath design. In a market that offers an overwhelming selection, it's important to know what differentiates one product or finish, for example, from another, and how to choose what is best suited to your lifestyle, needs, and budget. Contains 500 photos that showcase the newest tubs, showers, fixtures, faucets--from no-frills to spa features. Includes more than 50 sample floor plans and layouts for master and family baths, three-quarter baths, and powder rooms. A small investment in this book may provide a large return many bathroom design ideas for your project! It's the most private room in the house, a personal sanctuary where homeowners can escape the stresses of day-to-day life and rejuvenate body, soul, and spirit. Is it any wonder that the master room is the second-most-remodeled room in the house after the kitchen? "Grand Masters: Inspired Ideas for the Master Bath" will address the desires and needs of homeowners who want to indulge themselves with his-and-her grooming stations, therapeutic air-jet tubs and super showers, and luxury extras such as towel and floor warmers, glamorous materials, and technologic delights. KITCHENS What's the smartest investment a homeowner can make--especially if he or she can't afford to remodel the entire house? The kitchen, of course Why? It offers the largest return on the remodeling dollar, not to mention the value a new kitchen adds to the quality of lifestyle. The kitchen is often the deal-maker--or breaker--in today's tough real estate market, too. So making the right decisions about this investment is more critical now than ever, requiring the widest range of knowledge possible regarding layout, cabinets, appliances, fixtures, finishing materials, and style trends. With almost 500 color photos, Design Ideas for Kitchens, Second Edition, is the source for the latest information on products and design trends for kitchens--whatever the size of the layout or the budget.
COTTAGE
COTTAGE: AMERICA'S FAVORITE HOME The humble cottage offers a place of calming retreat and the opportunity to express a proud sense of individuality. In this timeless photographic treasury, the authors shine light on three charming characteristics that unify all cottages: a connection to nature, an intimately scaled design, and the use of locally made materials. They explore 24 superb American examples of all types-permanent homes and weekend getaways in rural, suburban, and urban locations, new cottages and remodels-discussing site planning, vernacular building materials, roof pitches, window sizes, interior design, and garden styles. Emphasizing current and future trends, "Cottage" is a storybook fantasy come alive. COUNTRY
COUNTRY LIVING - THE NEW LOOK OF COUNTRY The look of country has changed: Country Living brings decor up to date in a beautifully illustrated guide.Every beautiful color photograph in this magnificent decorating guide from the experts at Country Living celebrates the new soul of country style and reveals a fresh, sophisticated approach to fusing the best traditional and contemporary ideas. Interiors with inspiring decor abound, filled with soft slipcovered pieces, bold color palettes, and chic touches. Room by room, you see the wide range of possibilities that country style now offers: mix-and-match textures and patterns, showcased collectibles, and even homes dressed entirely in white. Alongside classic features such as baskets and flowers are innovative, up-to-date suggestions and restorations. You'll see how any space can display a personal take on country style.
NEW COUNTRY AND FARMHOUSE HOME PLANS Providing a unique combination of full-color photography and illustrations, "Country & Farmhouse Home Plans" offers readers 350 plans of the best-selling and stylish home designs available. From farmhouses with wraparound porches to center-hall colonials to comfy cape cods, this book offers a wide variety of home styles and sizes to fill the need for tradition and meet the budget of most readers. In addition to the designs, the book offers practical tips and advice to create the home of one's dreams.
FRENCH COUNTRY This book is rich in ideas for a wide variety of styles--elegant crystal chandeliers may take center stage in one room, but a simple wooden bench, worn smooth with centuries of use, can be just as captivating in another. Gently faded neutrals create a quiet harmony in one setting, while another is alive with splashes of vivid color. Sleek and modern or cozy and rustic, each of these hand-picked settings is as inviting as a deep leather armchair. Organized thematically, these destinations will inspire the reader to recreate the same atmospheric interiors at home.
Rich, beautiful full-color photography will inspire you, with more than 30 home tours and nearly 300 photos showcase Country French style in every room of the house. The kitchen is truly the heart of the home, and nowhere is this exemplified with more style and personality than in France. Distinguished by striking craftsmanship, bold colors, and vintage accents, the French country kitchen--whether a rustic retreat or an urban oasis--is always unique and inviting.
Learn from eclectic designer Charles Faudree, who has elevated French Country style to a fine art. With an exuberant decorating attitude based around his favorite principle that "too much is never enough," Faudree has achieved an international reputation for creating settings that have all the elegant accoutrements of a French Country estate, lacking pretension but never charm. SHABBY CHIC If you love shabby chic decor, you'll love the series of books written by founder Rachel Ashwell. From her first book, published in June 1996, to her latest publication in September 2009, you can learn to create a beautiful shabby chic home through Rachel Ashwell's eyes.
A behind-the-scenes look at a flea market lets readers in on Rachel's personal secrets of how to cull hidden treasures from flea market trash--an old trunk, its paint peeling around the edges, can be given new life as a coffee table, while a chipped white iron salvage piece becomes the perfect frame for a vintage mirror. This book tells you not only how to restore these pieces but how to find the perfect place for them in your home. Gorgeous color photographs and accompanying text reveal how this relaxed look works with a variety of different styles, from Victorian to Mediterranean to contemporary. Now you can do more than just dream of living in a Shabby Chic home. You can create one yourself. With invaluable treasure-hunting advice and tips for essential materials, furniture, objects and decorations, you can live a life of simple, but rich, beauty. With her practiced eye Rachel takes you on a tour of flea markets, antique malls, and a variety of secondhand sales -- estate, tag, yard, church, garage -- to demonstrate how, with a little taste, imagination, work and ingenuity, you can turn trinkets from the past into treasures for today.
In her previous books, Rachel showed you how to recognize beauty in overlooked places. Now, in The Shabby Chic Home, she teaches you how to find it in the nooks and crannies of your own home and then apply it to everyday life. She reveals how work, love, a lot of white paint, and Shabby Chic details can turn any new house into a comfortable, functional, beautifully designed home.
DECORATING WITH COLOR AND NEUTRALS
SMALL SPACES
Room by Room provides simple, quick storage solutions using readily available and inexpensive storage products to organize every room in the house. Also included are tips on assessing storage needs, organizing for easy storage and efficient use as well as tips on staying organized. From clothes to toys to sports equipment to tools to the pantry storage needed for todayas busy families, this helpful guide makes organized storage easy by giving time-saving ideas for using readily available (and inexpensive) storage products. When someone says they live in a small house or apartment, the image that comes to mind is all too often negative--cramped, cluttered, or confining. But America's leading small space designer, Libby Langdon, knows just how to counter that stereotype. In "Libby Langdon's Small Space Solutions," she finally offers a practical, user-friendly guide to decorating small spaces so they look stylish, beautiful, and larger than their actual dimensions. Setting out from the premise that it doesn't take lots of money to achieve a warm and inviting atmosphere, she delivers practicality and inspiration that's affordable.
WINDOWS
From first-time homeowners to interior design students and studio professionals---when it comes to window dressings and coordinated accessories "The Complete Book of Curtains, Drapes, and Blinds" will help you through bewildering choices in a simple and easy way. "The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments" makes it easy to choose and construct today's most popular window treatments - 20 styles of valances, swags, and cornices; 20 styles of curtains and draperies; plus 10 types of window shades. Room photographs show each style in a variety of decorating styles, fabrics, and hardware. Each project has step-by-step instructions from beginning to end: measuring the window, cutting the fabric with confidence, sewing or constructing the project, and installing the treatment the professional way. Over 500 how-to photographs and diagrams make it easy to have professional results. CHRISTMAS I don't know about you, but I love to have resources like holiday books at my fingertips every year...it's a tradition for me. They are full of great Christmas decorating ideas! I never grow tired of leafing through the beautiful pictures, recipes and ideas, and each year I select a different recipe, craft or decor idea to try for the holidays. Here is my little 'bookstore' of holiday treasures for you...check back often because it will grow over time!
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Room by Room provides simple, quick storage solutions using readily available and inexpensive storage products to organize every room in the house. Also included are home decorating tips on assessing storage needs, organizing for easy storage and efficient use as well as tips on staying organized. From clothes to toys to sports equipment to tools to the pantry storage needed for todayas busy families, this helpful guide makes organized storage easy by giving time-saving ideas for using readily available (and inexpensive) storage products.
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