By rethinking layout or period features, converting redundant space or expanding up, down or out, readers can make the most of basements, cellars, attics, and garages to suit their own lifestyle and needs, maximizing the practicality and comfort of a home. Converted has all the practical information needed, from dealing with budgets and schedules to tackling legal issues, as well as ideas and inspiration for making the most of the available space. With separate chapters looking at different types of conversion and individual case studies showing various schemes in practice, Converted opens up a whole new world of possibilities. There’s always room for improvement.

Converted: How to Extend Your Home Up, Down and Out

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

WILHIDE, ELIZABETH

Home Improvement & Design

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

Domestic lighting has traditionally been functional but conspicuously lacking in inspirational qualities. Now, a new generation of lighting designers has brought a more creative approach into play, adding a magical element to interior lighting schemes. From the practical to the theatrical, this book -- which includes hundreds of full-color photographs -- provides all the information home owners need to light their dwelling in style.
A visually compelling and informative celebration of options, Light Your Home begins with “Practical Lighting,” covering everything from assessing your needs in different rooms in the home to the basic principles of designing a lighting scheme. “Designing with Light” demonstrates how to combine light sources to enhance the quality and practicality of a home's interior. Decorating with Light highlights the most up-to-date lighting techniques and products. The Compendium presents an exciting array of lighting options across a wide range of styles and budgets. 
Whether they're looking for something simple or simply stunning, Light Your Home will guide home owners through the process of enhancing their living space with the perfect lighting.

Light Your Home: A Comprehensive Guide to Practical and Decorative Lighting

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Harper

“A marvelous work of historical fiction, beautifully crafted and inhabited by morally complex and fully realized characters... compelling, immersive, and utterly impossible to put down.” —Jennifer Chiaverini, New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker Anna Karenina meets World War II, a novel of love, war, and the resilience of one woman's spirit England, 1939: Julia Compton has a beautifully well-ordered life. Once a promising pianist, she now has a handsome husband, a young son she adores, and a housekeeper who takes care of her comfortable home. Then, on the eve of war, a film crew arrives in her coastal town. She falls in love. The consequences are devastating. Penniless, denied access to her son, and completely unequipped to fend for herself, she finds herself adrift in wartime London with her lover, documentary filmmaker Dougie Birdsall. While Dougie seeks truth wherever he can find it, Julia finds herself lost. As the German invasion looms and bombs rain down on the city, she faces a choice—succumb to her fate, or fight to forge a new identity in the heat of war.

If I Could Tell You: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Penguin??Books

If I Could Tell You

'Heart-wrenching . . . intoxicating . . . a very English Anna Karenina' The Times 'Vivid, candid, engaging. So honest' Helen Dunmore Suffolk, 1939: Julia Compton has a beautifully well-ordered life. Once a promising musician, she now has a handsome husband who pays the bills, a young son she adores and a housekeeper who takes care of her comfortable home. Then on the eve of war something unexpected happens. She falls in love. The consequences are devastating. Cut off from family and friends, Julia loses everything. Penniless, denied access to her son, completely unequipped to fend for herself, she is cast adrift in wartime London with her bohemian filmmaker lover Dougie. As invasion looms and the bombs rain down her struggle is only beginning. While Dougie seeks truth wherever he can find it, Julia finds herself lost. Before long, ruined and broken, she faces a choice - succumb to her fate, or fight to forge a new identity in the heat of war.

Women's Fiction

Fig Tree

Elizabeth Wilhide's debut novel Ashenden traces the history of an English house across two and a half centuries.  When Charlie and Ros inherit Ashenden from their aunt Reggie a decision must be made. The beautiful eighteenth-century house, set in acres of English countryside, is in need of serious repair. Do they try to keep it in the family, or will they have to sell?  Moving back in time, in an interwoven narrative spanning two and a half centuries, we witness the house from its beginnings through to the present day. Along the way we meet those who have built the house, lived in it and loved it; those who have worked in it, and those who would subvert it to their own ends, including Mrs Trimble, housekeeper to the rackety, spendthrift Mores; the wealthy Henderson family, in their Victorian heyday; six-year-old Pudge; Walter Beckmann, prisoner in its grounds.  A novel about people, architecture and living history, Ashenden is an evocative and allusive reflection on England and its past.   'Lively interlinked historical vignettes display distinct post-Downton commercial savvy . . . a pleasurably subtle web of connections . . .  a beguilingly effortless read'  Daily Mail  'An engrossing debut . . . a sparkling jewel: full of fascinating detail, high drama and sly wit'  Amanda Foreman  'I adored this book; I saw it as a sort of love letter to a vanished way of life, and a slice of English history at the same time, tracing as it does the lives of all the people who lived in Ashenden, a beautiful English country house, for over two hundred years. It's very touching and very compelling'  Penny Vincenzi  Elizabeth Wilhide is the author of over 20 books on interior design, decoration and architecture and a co-author and contributing editor to some 30 other titles, collaborating with authors such as David Linley, Terence Conran and Tricia Guild. Born in the United States, she has lived in Britain since 1967. She lives with her husband, an architect, and their two children in the East End of London.

Ashenden

Hamish Hamilton UK

A perspective on window decoration with ideas on different styles.

Laura Ashley Windows

Crafts & Hobbies

Orion Publishing Co

Using thirty homes chosen for their combination of budget-saving technique, high-quality style, and innovative solutions, this book shows how a low budget can be an asset to creating fashionable interior designs

Conran's Stylish Interiors

Spencer, Andrea

Little,Brown & Co

Demonstrates how to restore or redecorate a home to particular period specifications, including advice on how to recreate authentically Empire, Art Deco, Modernist and other period styles

Period Style

GILLIATT, MARY

An essential resource for any designer, crafter, artist, or historian, THE COMPLETE PATTERN DIRECTORY is the most comprehensive, practical, and beautiful directory of patterns throughout history, covering all periods, styles, and cultures. Throughout history, patterns have come in countless permutations of motif, color, and scale. From the first rhythmic marks pressed onto clay vessels, to the latest digital design, pattern-making has been an essential part of the decorative arts since time immemorial. With 1500 illustrations of patterns from all ages and cultures, THE COMPLETE PATTERN DIRECTORY is not only a visual feast, it is the most comprehensive resource available on the subject. The book is arranged thematically according to pattern type, with chapters on Flora, Fauna, Pictorial, Geometric, and Abstract designs. Each pattern includes the name of the pattern, the year of its creation, and a brief description. The categories are supplemented by in-depth features highlighting the work of key designers including William Morris, Sonia Delaunay, Charles and Ray Eames, Lucienne Day, and Orla Kiely, as well as sections detailing the characteristic motifs of key period styles from Baroque to Art Deco.

The Complete Pattern Directory: 1500 Designs from All Ages and Cultures

Black Dog Leventhal

A guide to fireplaces which helps the reader choose the right design for the right location, while at the same time describes how these styles evolved. It also details the range of implements available, from firedogs to firescreens, which are often as ornate as the fire surround itself.

The Fireplace

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