Category: Decorating Design

By Vicky Grubb

Take your love of material to the subsequent point and remodel your place with this shiny and available e-book for upholstery newbies. The Beginner's consultant to Upholstery takes you lightly through the hand and exhibits you the straightforward ideas you must take the bounce into DIY upholstery. faraway from being a dry, technical, conventional upholstery handbook, this beginner-friendly ebook offers 10 a possibility upholstery and re-upholstery tasks utilizing smooth fabrics and techniques. In jargon-free, plain-English phrases, gifted upholsterer and workshop instructor Vicky Grubb takes you step by step during the strategy of upholstering fascinating items of furnishings stumbled on at old markets, highway revenues and thrift shops, that are all upcycled and given a latest twist. tasks diversity from an easy stool, classic stitching field, and blanket field to a fluted headboard, Danish eating chair, patchwork armchair and a mid-century couch, all guided by way of the author's down-to-earth guide. along every one undertaking, it's also possible to watch Vicky upholstering each one merchandise in a sequence of targeted time-lapse video clips.

By Kathryn Gill

This good referenced publication offers an amply illustrated ebook on upholstery conservation which discusses and reports the problems concerning the care, interpretation and therapy of upholstered furniture.

Through many good illustrated case reviews the inter-disciplinary collaboration basic to upholstery conservation, and the advanced decision-making strategy interested by the therapy of upholstered furnishings, are made obtrusive. The case histories are contributed through top overseas practitioners within the box and situation items and collections within the care of English background, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of artwork and different across the world popular institutions.

Likewise, the members, from either side of the Atlantic, are world-renowned experts and leaders during this zone of conservation operating for the private and non-private sectors. The case histories, illustrated in color, black and white and in particular ready line drawings, quandary item remedy and documentation, the conservation of knowledge, the functionality and the artefact. they vary from the documentation of eighteenth century detachable chair covers and the therapy of a 19th century carriage to a 20th century foam-filled chair belonging to a museum.

By Jane Purr

Indicates the way to utilize the house and paintings with what you could have. The ebook display Feng Shui counsel and tricks for relocating residence, together with clearing and detoxification, evolving a mode, making sure a move, and together with the surface.

By Pam Damour, Katie Bartz

Combining domestic decor recommendations and criteria with the foundation and creativity designers Pam Damour and Katie Bartz, Pillow speak offers modern sewer with new stitching suggestions, tasks and guide on tips on how to customize each one undertaking. With a CD-ROM incorporated within the within entrance hide, Pillow speak takes complete good thing about know-how with a disc choked with embroidery designs prepared for move for your stitching desktop. Pillow speak starts off with a primer on computer stitching, masking the entire fundamentals together with making non-stop bias, welting and zipper insertion. The initiatives hide a wide selection of pillow varieties and services with transparent directions and full-color step by step photographs of the recommendations, styles and designs.

By Libby Langdon

The South Florida domestic Book is sort of easily the main whole connection with the house of Southern Florida. This good-looking, easy-to-use listing is designed in a concise and arranged demeanour, to be either functional and inspirational. The South Florida domestic Book bargains shoppers an in depth sourcebook for development, designing, and adorning upscale houses in South Florida. no matter if attracted to home improvement a kitchen or development a million-dollar-plus dream condominium, this publication may give shoppers the knowledge they should get the standard provider and product they want...and deserve. Over forty sections of domestic specialist showcased to motivate the shopper, together with: customized domestic developers * inside Decorators * Architects * Kitchen and tub Designers * panorama Architects and Contractors * pools and Spas * and masses extra.

By Brian Santos

By Elizabeth Moran

Reviewed by means of Feng Shui for contemporary residing journal as "an American masterpiece that tops the lot," it's now thought of the feng shui bible by way of classical practitioners, lecturers, and scholars of feng shui. the whole Idiot's GuideA (R) to Feng Shui, moment variation will proceed the 1st edition's luck with the subsequent significant additions.The revision contains assurance of the subsequent point of a style of classical feng shui known as Flying begin. And moment, for these readers simply in arranging one's furnishings to permit qi to meander in a efficient development, this part is multiplied. extra images and floorplans are incorporated.

The wide variety of initiatives provided during this quantity constitutes a accomplished examine of the newest developments within the structure and layout of kid's areas. every one undertaking offers an leading edge use of fabrics, colour, lights and texture to shape an area that's stimulating, academic and secure for children. either verified structure corporations and emerging stars have contributed to this stellar number of the simplest in child-friendly design.

By Carter Oosterhouse, Chris Peterson