Choosing a Color Scheme explains all you need to know to use color effectively and to your home's best advantage. You'll learn the basic principles of working with color. Discover how professionals design with color to make all the rooms in a home flow seamlessly from one to the next or to change the perception of a room's size. Understand the ways in which light, pattern, texture, and color affect each other and how they can be manipulated. Dozens of ideas are beautifully illustrated with color photographs, including wallcovering, fabric, and floorcovering swatches that make it easy to understand how to pull all these elements together in one handsome interior design.

Choosing a Color Scheme: How to Handle Samples and Use Color Successfully in Your Home

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Crafts & Hobbies

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400 Affordable Home Plans offers an extensive variety of affordable home plans. The reader may choose from a superior selection of designs. Livability and expense are the major concerns with all of the designs featured here. This thorough mix of architectural styles from every region coast to coast is bound to please even the discerning, budget-conscious builder. These homes contain desirable amenities while keeping economy in mind and the building budget at a minimum. There are plans for one- and two-story as well as multi-level homes. Many of the designs are exclusive only to this book.

400 Affordable Home Plans

Home Improvement & Design

600 Most Popular Home Plans is an encyclopedic collection of 600 of the most popular homes of all styles and sizes. The extensive variety of homes presented in this collection offer a superior selection from which to choose. The book offers traditional and contemporary designs for one- and two-story homes: luxury, sunbelt, country, vacation, and more. Rich in architectural variety and appealing to a great variety of lifestyles, this comprehensive collection of homes contains the favorite choices of buyers throughout North America. Many of the designs shown are exclusive to this book. Complete construction blueprints are available for every home shown, allowing the builder to save time and money.

600 Most Popular Home Plans

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Engineering

508 Two-Story Home Plans is one of the largest collections of two-story home plans available. Vastly appealing and rich in architectural variety, the two-story home remains one of the favorite choices of families all over the country. The two-story home is the best way to create the maximum amount of living space possible on a smaller lot. This extensive collection of two-story homes offers the best range of styles and sizes in this category. Styles include Colonial, Georgian, Victorian, Tudor, French, Spanish, Contemporary, Southwestern and more. Complete construction blueprints are available for every home shown, allowing builders to save time and money.

508 Two-Story Home Plans: Complete Materials List Available for Most Homes

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Kitchens: Plan, Remodel, Build offers a complete package of information to homeowners who want to improve or update their kitchen. The first part of the book deals with the basics of design, giving readers the latest information on remodeling trends and product developments. The four basic kitchen layouts are shown in beautiful renderings, along with a number of variations of each and many problem-solving floor plans. Every aspect of kitchen design is touched on in text and photos. The second section provides step-by-step instructions on completing a variety of kitchen-related improvements, from walls to floors to cabinets and everything in between. Readers can start from scratch designing and building a completely new kitchen or choose to improve specific areas.

Kitchens: Plan, Remodel, Build

408 Vacation and Second Home Plans is an extensive collection of home plans for people looking to build a vacation retreat or retirement home. The book includes such styles as A-Frames, Cottages, Ranches, Waterfront Homes, Cabins, and includes a special section on Cedar Homes. Both single and multi-level homes are offered. Complete construction blueprints are available for every home shown. Information on options allowing builders to save time and money is also provided.

408 Vacation & Second Home Plans

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Architecture

Country style is the hottest design trend on the market today. 380 Country &amp; Farmhouse Home Plans is a collection of 380 country homes and farmhouses for building in urban areas as well as their natural rural settings. This book offers traditional and contemporary designs for one- and two-story homes characterized by gable roofs, wraparound porches, and peaked windows. Whether the reader is looking for a Colonial, Victorian, Cape Cod, Farmhouse, European, or more modern look, our collection surely has the home they want. Combining charm with practicality, these homes are suited for a wide variety of family lifestyles and needs. Many of the plans are exclusive to this book.

380 Country & Farmhouse Home Plans: Complete Plans for a Comfy Country Home

375 Southern Home Plans is an encyclopedic collection of 375 homes of all styles and sizes in the Southern tradition. The book covers such styles as Stucco, Colonial, Floridian, Acadian, Country, and more. Home plans range in size from modest to luxurious in both single- and two-story homes. These plans are rich in architectural variety and appeal to many different lifestyles, and while they also keep in mind the grand Southern homesteads of the past, they are also modern and appealing to those throughout North America. All of the home plans offered have been designed by the most talented designers in the industry. Many of the designs are exclusive only to this book.

375 Southern Home Plans

Creative Homeowner's Home Book: The Ultimate Guide to Home Repairs &amp; Improvements is the largest, most comprehensive home-improvement book on the market-608 pages packed with over 3,300 photos and illustrations. This clearly written, sensible how-to book covers the home top to bottom, inside and out. The reader will find out about common repairs step-by-step, including wiring and electricity, plumbing, floors and stairs, walls and ceilings, basements and attics, improvements top to bottom, yards and gardens, decks and porches, exterior structures, masonry, framing and carpentry, roofing and siding, and much more. There is information about tools, materials, and basic skills, and over 300 step-by-step projects with full-color how-to photo sequences. The book also includes full-color illustrations that peel away the mysteries of remodeling and repair work, as well as informative charts and maps. In addition, there is a comprehensive index, a glossary of terms, and a 12-page, chapter-by-chapter resource guide, offering consumer information on products and services shown in the books.

Home Book: The Ultimate Guide to Repairs & Improvements

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Fences &amp; Gates: Plan, Design, Build is a comprehensive guide for designing, building, and maintaining a fence designed to provide privacy, security, and beauty to a home's landscape. The book offers a practical combination of design, planning, and construction information. All types of fences and gates are covered, including pickets, split-rails, board designs, and more. Wood fences and gates are featured, but there are also chapters on vinyl, chain-link, and other utilitarian systems, such as underground electric pet fences. Individual chapters explain material options and show how to install, finish, and repair many types of posts, rails, and gates with step-by-step photo sequences.

Fences & Gates: Plan-Design-Build

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