Spaces for Living is about the way we live today. With time and space at a premium, our homes must not only look good but must also make optimum use of available space and be easy to live in. Rooms often need to serve two or more purposes and open-plan layouts frequently have to accommodate a home office as well as family life. With nineteen real-life cases plus hundreds of ideas for innovative room planning, clever storage, and dual-purpose furniture, Spaces for Living shows you how to make the most of any space, creating a comfortable, functional, yet stylish home.

Spaces for Living: How to Create Multifunctional Rooms for Today's Homes

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bauwens, Liz

Home Improvement & Design

Three Rivers Press

Shows examples of multi-function rooms, and suggests a variety of dual-use furniture and furnishings designed to add style

Campbell, Alexandra

Clarkson/Potter

Take classic country and combine it with modern urban interiors—and you have a fresh style that works anywhere. “Stylish yet livable country looks. Whether you are an eclectic city slicker or live in a traditional Maine cottage, you can create your own melting pot of styles. Learn to combine old with new, and how to mix and match classic patterns and colors.”—Bridal Guide Magazine.

Country Living Country Chic: Country Style for Modern Living

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hearst

Offers ideas and suggestions for mixing and matching colors, materials, furnishings, and antiques to create a unique country-style living space.

Country Living Country Chic

Crafts & Hobbies

Thrifty Chic: Interior Style on a Shoestring

Thrifty Chic shows you how to create a stylish yet individual home without spending a small fortune. Room by room, Thrifty Chic explains how to give old furniture a new lease of life and how to bring vintage charm to a room through an inspired use of fabrics and paints. There are ideas for window dressings as well as bed and table linens. There are projects for jazzing up old wooden furniture for both house and backyard, and suggestions for pulling together mismatched items into cohesive schemes. The all-important finishing touches—display, china and ceramics, glassware, paintings and frames, fabrics and trims—are covered in detail, and you can learn how to create a variety of stylish accessories for your home. Get insider tips on what to look for at antique markets and in thrift stores, and how to care for and restore your bargain purchases. Whether you are creating your first home on a tight budget, or wanting to give your existing home a new look, Thrifty Chic contains a treasure trove of irresistible ideas.

Thrifty Chic: Interior style on a shoestring

Arts & Photography

Decorative Arts & Design

CICO Books

In an age when we can buy the same bookcase in Sweden, Singapore, and San Francisco, adding individuality to our surroundings is increasingly important. It creates a sense of place, a feel of home. Upcycling sums up today’s approach to interiors. It means re-using or re-styling things in an innovative and contemporary way, transforming an older piece of furniture from junk to fabulous. The same idea can even be applied to mass-market modern furniture—through "hacking," you can give it a brand new use or an entirely different look. Both upcycling and hacking are about re-purposing, taking an inexpensive item and re-working it into something special and unique. It’s not just about making the most of your budget, although upcycling and hacks will save you money. It’s about having a home that reflects your style and individuality. Sometimes it’s just a question of looking at "that old thing" in a different way, such as hanging an empty picture frame on the wall, using a piece of outdoor furniture inside, adding different doors to chain-store fittings, or combining traditional and modern in quirky, individualistic ways.

Upcycled Chic and Modern Hacks: Thrifty ways for stylish homes

Learn how to reuse, recycle, restyle, restore, and revamp your old furnishings to create a stylish and unique home, without spending a fortune! Whether you are on a tight budget, or simply want to give your existing home a new look, Thrifty Chic provides a treasure trove of ideas at your fingertips. Learn how to reuse, recycle, restyle, restore, and revamp your old furnishings to create a stylish and unique home, without spending a fortune! Whether you are on a tight budget, or simply want to give your existing home a new look, Thrifty Chic provides a treasure trove of ideas at your fingertips. Divided into 7 chapters, Thrifty Chic will take you through everything you need to know to jazz-up your home. Starting with “Elements of Design”, you will learn how to utilize fabric, paint, windows, frames, lighting, and more, to make the most of your environment. Then, room by room, each chapter will show you how best to pull together mismatched items into cohesive schemes, how to upcycle furniture, and how to introduce some clever ideas for storage. You will learn how to create certain styles in your home, from French-inspired antique chic, to the cosmopolitan eclectic and the steel-finished urban cutting-edge. You will even gain insider tips on what to look for at antique markets and in thrift stores, and how to care for and restore your bargain purchases. Packed full of irresistible designs, and with a final chapter detailing how to do the projects yourself, there will be no stopping you from creating your perfect habitat.

Architecture

Easy Cottage Style offers a fresh, contemporary take on country house style that is ideally suited to relaxed, modern living and easy to achieve in your own home.\nCountry style evokes ideas of natural comfort – the warm glow of a winter fire or floral fabrics swaying in a summer breeze – which can be recreated in all types of interiors. In this book, inspiring case studies demonstrate how every room can be given a taste of rustic charm: the kitchen made warm and comfortable, the bedroom soft and romantic, and the living room natural and tranquil. Even antiques can be used in a contemporary way, as we all embrace the importance of sustainability in our daily lives. Easy Cottage Style highlights new ways to look at the country and shows you how vintage and second-hand finds can enrich your home.\nBook Description\nEasy Cottage Style offers a fresh, contemporary take on country house style that is ideally suited to relaxed, modern living and easy to achieve in your own home.

Easy Cottage Style: Comfortable interiors for country living

<div> Bring texture, colour and depth to your home and embrace sustainable living with vintage finds. Flea-market finds are the perfect finishing touch to any interiors scheme. In modern rooms, a distressed chair or a vintage mirror bring much-needed character. And in traditional decorating schemes, faded textiles and mismatched china are all part of the charm. Of course, Flea Market Chic is about sustainable recycling, upcycling and repurposing. But it's also about a sense of history and place, about individuality and creating a home that reflects your life and personality. Every piece has a story: the colourful jug you found at a car boot fair, the vintage telephone that belonged to a favourite aunt, the little chair you found in a village junk shop or the old dustbins that have been converted into fashionable zinc planters. In Flea Market Chic, we'll show you how to spot the clever find in a pile of junk, where to look and how to negotiate, how to smarten up (and when not to smarten up) second-hand items and how to reuse things you already have. </div>

Flea Market Chic: Treasure hunting for stylish homes

Antiques & Collectibles

Spaces for Living contains real-life case studies in which owners have come up with clever, original solutions to make the space in their home fulfil their needs.'

Spaces for Living: How to Create Multi-functional Rooms for Today's Homes

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Spaces for Living: How to Create Multifunctional Rooms for Today's Homes

Spaces for Living: How to Create Multifunctional Rooms for Today's Homes

Country Living Country Chic: Country Style for Modern Living

Country Living Country Chic

Thrifty Chic: Interior style on a shoestring

Upcycled Chic and Modern Hacks: Thrifty ways for stylish homes

Thrifty Chic: Interior Style on a Shoestring

Easy Cottage Style: Comfortable interiors for country living

Flea Market Chic: Treasure hunting for stylish homes

Spaces for Living: How to Create Multi-functional Rooms for Today's Homes