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Essential Pruning Techniques: Trees, Shrubs, and Conifers
Tony Kirkham - Timber Press
Format: Print book
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A master class on pruning Pruning is an essential part of garden maintenance; it is necessary to regulate and control growth and to encourage flowering and fruiting on trees and shrubs. It is also one of the most difficult parts of garden maintenance. To prune well, gardeners must have... |
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Terrain: Ideas and Inspiration for Decorating the Home and Garden
GREG LEHMKUHL - Artisan
Format: Hardcover
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Named one of the Wall Street Journals Best Interior-Design Books to Give as Holiday Presents Founded in a historic nursery in southeast Pennsylvania, Terrain is a nationally renowned garden, home, and lifestyle brand with an entirely fresh approach to living with nature. Its an approach... |
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Kitchen Upgrades
Taunton Press - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback
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Kitchen Upgrades is a compilation of the very best expert design and product advice, using real-world remodels to help professionals and passionate amateurs remodel a kitchen of any shape and size, on any budget. The pros take you through every step of the remodeling process, with over... |
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How to Window Box: Small-Space Plants to Grow Indoors or Out
Chantal Aida Gordon - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover
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From the founders of the popular gardening blog The Horticult comes a guide to the window box, the container garden that is by far the most accessible for any skill level, space, or quality of light. The 16 indoor and outdoor projects range from succulents to veggies, and showcase... |
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Life at the Top: New York's Exceptional Apartment Buildings
Kirk Henckels - Vendome Press
Format: Hardcover
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What are New York City's best apartment buildings Before 1900, it was the Dakota and the Osborne; soon after came McKim, Mead & White's 998 Fifth and the ultra-soign 820 Fifth Avenue. The roaring twenties produced true luxury: 740 Park Avenue, the art deco-inspired River House,... |
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Pretty Tough Plants: 135 Resilient, Water-Smart Choices for a Beautiful Garden
Plant Select. - Timber Press
Format: Print book
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Tough-but-beautiful plant picks There's a growing demand for dependably hardy plants that require less maintenance and less water, but look no less beautiful in the garden. Plant Select - the leading purveyor of plants designed to thrive in difficult climates - meets this need by promoting... |
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Green Enough: Eat Better, Live Cleaner, Be Happier
LEAH SEGEDIE - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover
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A real, no-holds-barred take on making smart, healthy choices for you and your family.In Green Enough, Mamavation blogger Leah Segedie uncovers the truth behind the food and household products that are misleadingly labeled "all-natural" and healthy but are actually filled... |
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Happy Houseplants: 30 Lovely Varieties to Brighten Up Your Home
Angela Staehling - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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For anyone who has longed for a garden of their own - whether a city dweller or one with less-than-green thumbs - this is a handy little guide to growing and maintaining houseplants. Cheerful and informative, Happy Houseplants will guide any budding indoor botanist through a bevy of topics,... |
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Make Yourself at Home: Design Your Space to Discover Your True Self
Moorea Seal - Sasquatch Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the blockbuster hit journals The 52 Lists Project and 52 Lists for Happiness, comes a book to help you design your space to discover what is really important to you and express the creativity and style you already have! This book is all about beautifying your life inside... |
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Color Me Floral: Stunning Monochromatic Arrangements for Every Season
Kiana Underwood - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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Learn the secrets to designing showstopping monochromatic arrangements in this spectacular guide from floral artist Kiana Underwood. Underwood shares her techniques for creating dazzling single-color displays using inspired ingredients, dramatic textures, and vibrant colors. Organized by season,... |
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Coastal Blues: Mrs. Howard's Guide to Decorating with the Colors of the Sea and Sky
Phoebe Howard - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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From design expert (and interior design readers' favorite) Phoebe Howard comes a new book focused on decorating with beautiful blue color schemes. Coastal Blues is a glorious decor book filled with inspiring images of beach houses, seacoast getaways, vacation cottages, and luxurious... |
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The New Bohemians Handbook: Come Home to Good Vibes
Justina Blakeney - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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The New Bohemian Handbook guides readers in beautifully simple techniques for adding good vibes and style to living spaces. Packed with hundreds of ideas for bringing positive energy to your home, the book features exercises and activities for thinking about rooms in new ways.... |
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Building with Secondhand Stuff, 2nd edition: How to Reclaim, Repurpose, Re-use & Upcycle Salvaged & Leftover Materials
CHRIS PETERSON - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback
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From Craig's List, your basement, and estate sales, you can salvage what you need to upcycle all kinds of cool things. You can build tables, install vintage hardwood floors and salvaged windows, mason reclaimed stone walls, and do much more using free or very inexpensive, high-quality,... |
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Duct Tape Engineer: The book of big, bigger, and epic duct tape projects
Lance Akiyama - Rockport Publishers
Format: Paperback
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In Duct Tape Engineer, hands-on educator, master tinkerer, and author of Rubber Band Engineer, Lance Akiyama will show you how to design, sculpt, and build backpacks, kayaks, catapults, and queen-size beds out of duct tape in your own backyard.These fourteen projects are designed to be long-lasting... |
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Signature Spaces: Well-Traveled Interiors by Paolo Moschino & Philip Vergeylen
Paolo Moschino - Vendome Press
Format: Print book
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This lavishly illustrated volume explores the interior world of Paolo Moschino and Philip Vergeylen, the talented duo behind the award-winning design studio Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam Limited. Acknowledged by Architectural Digest as one of the top 100 designers in the world,... |
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Wedding Bouquets and Flowers
Jill Woodall - Crowood Press
Format: Hardcover
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Today's brides can choose from an ever-widening range of flower styles and designs including spectacular blooms, individual fantasies and simple, natural displays - the creative potential is huge when a love of flowers is combined with the confidence to experiment. This book gives brides... |
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Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
Fumio Sasaki - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo -- he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided... |
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The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan
ANDY COUTURIER - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
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Andy Couturier captures the texture of sustainable lives well lived in these ten profiles of ordinary - yet exceptional - men and women who left behind mainstream existences in urban Japan to live surrounded by the luxuries of nature, art, friends, delicious food, and an abundance of time.... |
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Nathan Turner's I Love California: Live, Eat, and Entertain the West Coast Way
Nathan Turner - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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Designer Nathan Turner's style is synonymous with the easy glam of California living. His first book introduced readers to his casual American style and chic design sense. Now, he has written a love letter to his home state in I Love California. This book is a journey up and down Highway... |
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150 Best Interior Design Ideas
none - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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An in-depth review of the latest trends in residential interior designs from internationally renowned architects and designers, showcasing 150 full-color profiles and 500 pages of color photos - an outstanding addition to the popular 150 Best series.In 150 Best Interior Design Ideas you'll... |
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Baking Soda: House & Home
Diane Sutherland - Flame Tree Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Baking soda is far more than a baking ingredient - it can be used in all manner of household tasks including cleaning, laundry, animal care, and health and beauty. This is the essential guide to maximizing the potential of this cheap, environmentally-friendly and multi-purpose product.... |
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How the French Live: Modern French Style
SIHAM MAZOUZ - Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover
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At home with modern French families . . . Si Mazouz, curator of the popular blog FRENCHBYDESIGN, introduces a dozen sophisticated French families in her debut book, How the French Live to engage and inspire. Si shares each family's personality and values through the lens of their uniquely... |
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Simply Styling: Fresh & Easy Ways to Personalize Your Home
Kirsten Grove - Sterling
Format: Print book
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Get the stylish and comfortable home youve longed forwithout breaking the bank or your back! Renowned interior stylist Kirsten Grove guides you every step of the way, going room by room and item by item, giving you the tools and tricks you need to create a space that captures your personality... |
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Southern Rustic Cabin
Emily Followill - Gibbs Smith Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In the cool, wooded mountains of the South, each log cabin has a rich history and a unique personality. Homeowners featured here have preserved the age-old qualities of their cabins while renovating, revitalizing, and redecorating these treasures to support modern living and reflect their... |
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Better Homes and Gardens Flea Market Style: Fresh Ideas for Your Vintage Finds
Better Homes and Gardens - Better Homes & Gardens
Format: eBook
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The Indispensible Guide to Scoring, Using, Collecting, and Displaying Vintage Flea Market Finds Flea markets, Craigslist, and even a neighbor's curb can yield vintage treasures that make a house sparkle. But knowing what to do with those pieces can be intimidating. This innovative book... |
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History of Interior Design
Jeannie Ireland - Fairchild Books an Imprint of Bloomsbury Publ
Format: Paperback(New Edition)
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History of Interior Design, Second Edition, covers the history of architecture, interiors, and furniture globally, from ancient times through the late twentieth century. Each chapter gives you background information about the social and cultural context and technical innovations of the period... |
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Organization Hacks: Over 350 Simple Solutions to Organize Your Home in No Time!
Carrie Higgins - Adams Media
Format: Paperback
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Fix your cluttered cabinets, overflowing drawers, and messy living areas with these tips, tricks, and project ideas from Carrie Higgins, the organization expert of the Making Lemonade blog.. Carrie Higgins has made it her mission to share fresh ideas for the home on her blog Making Lemonade.... |
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Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home
Monica Penick - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting and superbly illustrated account of the enigmatic House Beautiful editor's profound influence on mid-century American taste From 1941 to 1964, House Beautiful magazine's crusading editor-in-chief Elizabeth Gordon introduced and promoted her vision of "good design"... |
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The Art of Elegance: Classic Interiors
Marshall Watson - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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Marshall Watson's first book reveals how to make traditional interiors fresh. Known for his meticulously researched, European-inspired style, Marshall Watson creates interiors that are rich in texture, detail, and simple luxuries. In his first book, Watson shares his finest work,... |
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French Accents: Farmhouse French Style for Today's Home
ANITA JOYCE - Plain Sight
Format: Hardcover
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Brighten up your home with a little "joie de vivre"! Filled with gorgeous photography and an abundance of helpful design ideas, this book will teach you how to create the cozy comfort of classic French style. Lots of new photography, a larger size and more detailed information... |
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House Beautiful Colors for Your Home: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Paint
House Beautiful - Hearst
Format: Flexibound
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Based onHouse Beautiful's popular color column,thispocket-sized handbook shows how a simple coat of paint can set the mood and add a designer's touch in any room. This gorgeous primer showcases more than 450 colors selected by top interior designers who explain how and why they... |
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Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 535 Easy
KELLY WILLIAMS BROWN - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Paperback
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING GUIDE, WITH UPDATED MATERIAL AND A NEW FOREWORDIf you graduated from college but still feel like a student . . . if you wear a business suit to job interviews but pajamas to the grocery store . . . if you have your own apartment but no idea how to cook or clean... |
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged
DK PUBLISHING. - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Can't keep a houseplant alive, no matter how hard you try and how good your intentions are? This is the book for you. You need this book. Give plants a chance.Help your plant live with survival tips and learn the simple ways not to kill your plants.With over 50 different types of popular... |
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Clutter Intervention: How Your Stuff Is Keeping You Stuck
TISHA MORRIS - Llewellyn Publications
Format: Paperback
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Get to the Heart of Why It's So Hard to Let Go of Your Stuff What's your clutter actually covering up? Once you're aware of the real issue, letting go is simple and decluttering can happen immediately. Using step-by-step instructions and easy-to-understand explanations, Tisha Morris shows... |
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Building Community: New Apartment Architecture
Michael Webb - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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An international survey of the most inventive contemporary apartment buildings, to inspire architects, developers, urban planners, and informed city dwellersThere's an urgent need to build more and better apartments: to relieve an acute shortage of affordable housing in major cities;... |
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Nature's Essential Oils: Aromatic Alchemy for Well-Being
CHER KAUFMANN - Countryman Press
Format: Paperback
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Lavender is calming and relaxing; lemon uplifting and stimulating. But why do each of these scents provoke specific, visceral responses? In Nature's Essential Oils, certified aromatherapist Cher Kaufmann demystifies the how and why behind essential oils, explaining the environmental... |
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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Roma Agrawal - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind The Shard, Western Europe's tallest building.While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what goes into creating the built environment, let alone how a new building... |
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The Art of Discarding: How to Get Rid of Clutter and Find Joy
Nagisa Tatsumi - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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The book that inspired Marie Kondo's The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Nagisa Tatsumi's international bestseller offers a practical plan to figure out what to keep and what to discard so you can get - and stay - tidy, once and for all.Practical and inspiring, The Art of Discarding... |
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My Cool Kitchen: A Style Guide to Unique and Inspirational Kitchens
Jane Field-Lewis - Pavilion Books
Format: Hardcover
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This book departs from the standard look-alike conventional kitchens offered by mass-market home stores. Instead, it celebrates individuality, creativity and artistic flair. From the kitchens of tiny city flats to baronial castles, this is a refreshing look outside of the box of the catalogue... |
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Ellen Shipman and the American Garden
Judith B. Tankard - University of Georgia Press
Format: Hardcover
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Between 1914 and 1950, Ellen Shipman (1869-1950) designed more than 600 gardens in the United States, from Long Island's Gold Coast to the state of Washington. Her secluded, lush formal gardens attracted a clientele that included Fords, Edisons, Astors, and du Ponts. Shipman's... |
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Garden Wisdom & Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Plant, Grow, and Harvest
Rodale Press - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Paperback
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Classic information, contemporary feel: Garden Wisdom & Know-How shows green-thumbs and novices alike everything they need to know about gardening; from soil composition to fertilizers to planting and landscaping on your dream-acres or in small containers. Charmingly illustrated with... |
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Ray Booth: Evocative Interiors
Ray Booth - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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Ray Booth's debut monograph presents curated home interiors by this master of modern elegance.Trained as an architect, designer Ray Booth's distinctively elegant, strikingly evocative spaces exude modernism while reflecting a sense of place and history. Booth's creativity is palpable... |
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Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You
Julie Morgenstern - Holt Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling organizational guru takes on the ultimate time-management challenge -- parenting, from toddlers to teens -- with concrete ways to structure and spend true quality time with your kids. Would you ever take a job without a job description, let alone one that requires a lifetime... |
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Popular Mechanics How to Fix Anything: Essential Home Repairs Anyone Can Do
POPULAR MECHANICS. - Hearst
Format: Hardcover
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For any home repair, big or small, homeowners can turn to this practical and portable reference. Got a squeaky floor or a rattling door? Is your grout a color you don't recognize anymore? From quick fixes like linking broken chains and patching drywall to more involved projects like replacing... |
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Plant Society: Create an Indoor Oasis for your Urban Space
Jason Chongue - Hardie Grant
Format: Flexibound
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Plant Society is your 101 guide on how to love and keep indoor plants. Even if youve killed every house plant in the past, plant-cultivator and stylist Jason Chongue will show you that its really not that difficult. Covering everything from basic plant care and re-potting, to plants suited... |
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How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home
Charles Wing - RSMeans
Format: Paperback
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The updated and highly illustrated guide to understanding how just about everything in your house works! The revised and updated third edition of How Your House Works is a hands-on guide that gives you the low-down on why your faucet is leaking, your dishwasher is overflowing, or your... |
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Moving Heaven and Earth: Capability Brown's Gift of Landscape
Steffie Shields - Unicorn Press Ltd
Format: Hardcover
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A world-famous eighteenth-century British figure, Lancelot "Capability" Brown (1716-1783) is today considered the father of landscape architecture. Moving Heaven and Earth reveals the driven polymath behind the famous nickname, exploring both Brown's artistic legacy and his pioneering... |
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Sidewalk Gardens of New York
Alicia Whittaker - Monacelli Press
Format: Print book
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"New York City looks nothing - nothing - like it did just a decade and a half ago. It's a place of newly gorgeous waterfront promenades, of trees, tall grasses and blooming flowers on patches of land and peninsulas of concrete and even stretches of rail tracks that were blighted... |
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About Decorating: The Remarkable Rooms of Richard Keith Langham
Sara Ruffin Costello - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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This first book on the esteemed decorator and tastemaker, known for beautiful interiors that are replete with tradition, saturated color, elegance, and Southern flair, will inspire and delight readers.Richard Keith Langham's all-American interiors unite a traditional approach with dashes... |
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Black & Decker Wood Floors: Hardwood - Laminate - Bamboo - Wood Tile - More
COOL SPRINGS PRESS. - Pepperbox Press Ltd.
Format: Paperback
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Solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate floors can enhance the beauty of any room in a home. Wood creates visual warmth, is available in a wide variety of colors and grain patterns, and is durable enough to last a half century or more when installed and maintained properly.New variations... |
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Grow Your Own: How to Be an Urban Farmer
ANGUS LEAKE SIMON STEWART - Murdoch Books
Format: Hardcover
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Urban environments require specific techniques to optimise growing conditions for plants. Two leading experts in horticulture and soil science teach the reader how to grow their own food - from the ground up - in this authoritative, accessible, generously photographed guide. Grow Your Own Food... |
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Dream House: An Intimate Portrait of the Philip Johnson Glass House
Adele Tutter - University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover
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Famous for its transparency, the Philip Johnson Glass House--the icon of modernism that Vincent Scully called "the most conceptually important house of the century"--has nonetheless proven vexingly opaque to interpretation. Its architect, Philip Cortelyou Johnson, has been equally... |
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern
Wanda M Corn - Prestel
Format: Hardcover
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This book explores how Georgia O'Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book... |
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Sunshine Spaces: Naturally Beautiful Projects to Make for Your Home & Outdoor Space
BECI ORPIN - HARDIE GRANT Books
Format: Print book
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Crafty, easy-to-achieve projects that bring a little sunshine into your life and home spaces.In Sunshine Spaces, designer Beci Orpin show us how to make and create a range of fun homewares and other fabulous ideas for your outdoor space, including outdoor entertaining as well as how to bring... |
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Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
Dana K. White - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback
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You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff--you can get rid of clutter for good!While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, many of us simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is a home that is difficult to maintain,... |
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A Garden Can Be Anywhere: Creating Bountiful and Beautiful Edible Gardens
Lauri Kranz - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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Edible Gardens LA founder Lauri Kranz shares her secrets for planning, planting, growing, and maintaining luscious edible gardens, no matter the setting or size of the plot. Through gorgeous gardens created for her well-known clientele, including James Beard award-winning chefs, celebrities,... |
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100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive
Xerces Society - Storey Publishing
Format: Print book
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The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract... |
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Life in the Garden
PENELOPE LIVELY - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and lifePenelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards... |
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Energy Accounts: Architectural Representations of Energy, Climate, and the Future
Daniel Willis - Routledge
Format: Hardcover
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How does one tell the story of energy production, use, or conservation in a manner sufficiently convincing to influence policy, behavior, and design? Energy Accounts explores potential answers to this question through compelling images, data visualizations, narratives, and other examples... |
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Van Life: Your Home on the Road
Foster Huntington - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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Showcasing hundreds of funky vehicles, awe-inspiring landscapes, and cleverly designed interiors in tiny spaces from around the world, Van Life is perfect for who anyone daydreams about living on the open road.More and more people-from millennials to baby boomers-are taking a break... |
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Remodel Success: Home Remodeling Done Right, On Time, and On Budget
MONICA HIGGINS - Schiffer
Format: Paperback
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Most homeowners are uninformed and ill-prepared for big-ticket remodels. The knowledge they do have often comes from reality-TV home makeover shows that gloss over the ingredients essential to success. This book by a construction management pro gives homeowners increased confidence in making... |
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Wiring Complete: 3rd Edition
Michael W Litchfield - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback
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The third edition of this best-selling volume is a comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-use reference for homeowners covering all home wiring situations from the most basic to advanced. Wiring Complete is a highly visual book focused on real world situations faced by homeowners and real... |
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Space Planning Basics
Mark Karlen - Wiley
Format: Paperback
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Conquer the complexity of interior design with a logical, methodical approachSpace Planning Basics is a definitive introduction and principle resource for thousands of designers. With step-by-step methodology based on the author's several decades of design experience, this authoritative... |
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Whiskey in a teacup
Reese Witherspoon - Touchstone
Format: Book
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Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.Reese Witherspoon's grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination... |
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House Jungle: Turn Your Home into a Plant-Filled Paradise!
Annie Dornan-Smith - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback
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House Jungle is a joyful, illustrated introduction to indoor gardening, presented with a decorator's eye. The vibrant drawings and hand-lettered text of author-illustrator Annie Dornan-Smith show how to prepare the perfect container and select plants based not only on their light... |
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Start with Your Sock Drawer: The Simple Guide to Living a Less Cluttered Life
Vicky Silverthorn - Sphere
Format: Paperback
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Cupboards packed with unused gadgets. Boxes full of obsolete chargers. Unpaid bills hidden among piles of junk mail. Wardrobes bursting with unworn clothes. Heaps of neglected children's toys. A dresser jammed full of mismatched socks. . . Sound familiar? Many of us feel increasingly... |
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Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes
Piet Oudolf - Timber Press
Format: Paperback
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The soul of a famous garden, revealed Before it was restored, the High Line was an abandoned landscape overgrown with weeds and wild flowers. Today it is much more than that; it's a year-round garden, an unprecedentedly ecological urban park, a promenade and an ever-evolving cultural... |
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Vern yip's design wise : your smart guide to a beautiful home
Vern Yip - Running Press
Format: Print book
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Vern Yip is one of the most beloved and recognizable interior designers in America. Over the course of his near-decade at HGTV, he has counseled thousands of people on beautifying their homes on limited budgets. Through his shows, as well as in his regular column "Learn from Vern"... |
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The Country House Library
Mark Purcell - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning with new evidence that cites the presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this generously illustrated book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries. Replete with engaging anecdotes about owners... |
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Gardenista: The Definitive Guide to Stylish Outdoor Spaces
Michelle Slatalla - Artisan
Format: Print book
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Our homes' outdoor spaces can - and should - be as welcoming and carefully considered as our living rooms; when treated as extensions of our homes, these spaces enrich our lives immeasurably. That was the guiding principle when, under the direction of editor in chief Michelle Slatalla (whose... |
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Veranda Decorating
CLINTON SMITH - Hearst
Format: Hardcover
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From beautiful design details that inspire to pretty personal spaces you'll want to call your own, this stunning volume from Veranda captures the allure of luxurious decorating. Learn all there is to know about creating a glorious home. VerandaDecorating takes you on an A-Z journey... |
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150 Best New Eco Home Ideas
NOT AVAILABLE. - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the latest in sustainable architecture and environmentally friendly home design in this outstanding volume in the popular 150 Best series, which features nearly 500 pages of full-color photographs and dozens of inventive and decorative profiles.Architects, designers, and homeowners... |
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New York Behind Closed Doors
Polly Devlin - Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover
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A look inside the homes of New York's artists, designers, writers, and social influencers. Twenty-four homes and stories of real New Yorkers who live in small spaces with art, books, collections, treasures, and fabulous, sometimes funky furniture -- each space expressing the resident's... |
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The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife
Nancy Lawson - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists... |
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Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs
Whitney Cranshaw - Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
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This second edition of Garden Insects of North America solidifies its place as the most comprehensive guide to the common insects, mites, and other "bugs" found in the backyards and gardens of the United States and Canada. Featuring 3,300 full-color photos and concise, detailed text, this... |
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Your Home, Your Style: How to Find Your Look & Create Rooms You Love
DONNA GARLOUGH - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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The first book from the style director for the popular home decor site Joss & Main is a lively, chic road map to finding and implementing your style at home. In this age of Instagram and Pinterest, there is no shortage of decorating inspiration. Then why is it so hard to make the leap... |
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Year of No Clutter: A Memoir
Eve O Schaub - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book
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Eve has a problem with clutter. Too much stuff and too easily acquired, it confronts her in every corner and on every surface in her house. When she pledges to tackle the worst offender, her horror of a "Hell Room," she anticipates finally being able to throw away all of the unnecessary... |
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City Farmhouse Style: Designs for a Modern Country Life
KIM LEGGETT - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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Come along on the hunt to coveted country sources and the best secret antiquing spots, and learn how to create country farmhouse style in your city dwelling. Author Kim Leggett is the creator of City Farmhouse, an interior design business, pop-up antiquing fairs, and vintage store. She is also... |
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The Art of Natural Cleaning: Tips and techniques for a chemical-free sparkling home
Rebecca Sullivan - Kyle Books
Format: Hardcover
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This handy little guide is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to keep their home sparklingly clean without resorting to chemical products. Rebecca draws on traditional cleaning techniques, bringing them up to date to suit the modern home. Taking the time to create your own cleaning... |
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Renovating for Profit: Transform Your Property on a Budget
CHERIE BARBER - Hardie Grant
Format: Paperback
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Highly illustrated and extremely practical, Renovating for Profit reveals Cherie's secrets to success and equips you with all the tips and knowledge you need to renovate and make a profit. Including information on budgeting, time saving ideas, organization and how to successfully use color... |
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Henri Samuel: Master of the French Interior
Emily Evans Eerdmans - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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The first book dedicated to Henri Samuel, considered one of the pre-eminent French interior designers of the twentieth century and acclaimed for his mastery of historic design, as well as his eye for contemporary presentation and furnishings--a high-point addition to Rizzoli's continuing... |
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Venice: The Art of Living
LYDIA FASOLI - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover
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This beautiful, aspirational book offers a seductive vision of living and entertaining in the most elegantly appointed private interiors of Venice. For centuries, millions have succumbed to the magic of Venice, but few have been able to venture into its sumptuous private spaces. This book... |
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