The Creation of Shelter

Arts & Photography

Greer, Nora Richter

Architecture

Aia Pr

Author, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott N and Publisher, Rockport publishers

Architecture As Response: Preserving the Past, Designing for the Future : Einhorn Yaffee Prescott

Einhorn Yaffee Prescott

Biographies & Memoirs

Rockport Pub

"Architecture Transformed: New life for old buildings" is a beautifully illustrated volume documenting today's building preservation efforts from around the world. 
Includes more than 300 color photographs, floor plans, and line drawings. 
Presents an in-depth look at almost 40 significant projects worldwide located in such places as the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Singapore, and the Netherlands. 
Features a wide variety of buildings - theaters, museums, corporate headquarters, libraries, and cathedrals. 
A valuable resource that gives a sweeping look at the extent and breadth of the movement to preserve architectural heritage.

Architecture Transformed: New Life for Old Buildings

Go inside the intriguing world of interior design to find out the latest secrets for home decorating. This volume gives readers a chance to look at what other designers are doing at the moment and also lets them in on the secrets behind their great designs. Up to date information and beautiful photographs illustrate this book, and readers will be happy to add this to their collection.

Design Secrets Architectural Interiors

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Henderson, Justin

Crafts & Hobbies

The right light makes the room. It sets the stage for our lives, creates a comfortable environment, and enhances home décor. Bring a new brilliance to your home with this expert guide that demystifies all aspects of lighting your home. 
The Right Light examines a wealth of lighting sources, types, and styles. It shows you how to find and use the best light fixtures, how to create mood with lighting, and how to balance the functional and aesthetic aspects of lighting throughout your home on a room-by-room basis, and even outdoors. Read The Right Light and discover hoe to custom-design your own lighting to decorate your home. 
 -Detailed lighting plans for your home, and inventive ways to use the lighting resources you already have in place. 
 -Decorative tricks on how to use lighting to enlarge your space, make it more intimate, and give it more height. 
 -Lighting design tips on working with color and light, designing concealed lighting, and turning a garden into an outdoor room. 
 -Eight beautiful handcrafted lamp projects to help you make your own lamps and light fixtures.

The Right Light: Lighting Essentials for the Home

Skolnik, Lisa

Ease into contemporary home design with Modem Nostalgia. Despite predictions that the new millennium would find us lounging on shiny metallic and disposable furniture, most people still want room for familiar classics-whether graceful 'Windsor dining chairs or a beautiful French country table. If you treasure tradition but long for a fresh, new look, this hook is for you. Here is a collection of rooms that intrigue with a unique fusion of design ideas-harmoniously mixing heirloom pieces and contemporary looks. 'This streamlined, modern style guide will help you: 
 -Give crowded rooms breathing space, atmosphere, and depth -Balance rooms with a blend of old and new -Use "pieces with a past" to create a softer, looser style 
Hold on to the things you love, and give them drama and impact with fresh MODERN style.

Modern Nostalgia: Mixing Personal Treasures and Modern Style

Kasabian, Anna

Today’s gardeners are cultivating a new level of comfort. They don’t just want to furnish their outdoor living space; they want to decorate it to reflect personal style and taste. But how do you create the equivalent of the family "great room" in the open air? 
The Outdoor Decorating and Style Guide is the ultimate how-to guide for applying the principles of interior design—for furnishings, accessories, lighting, color, flooring, and walls—to the great outdoors. This comprehensive guidebook takes readers step by step through the entire design process, helping readers with visualizing the desired type of outdoor room; choosing the materials, colors, and furniture that work best with a preferred style; and arranging, decorating, and putting it all together. Full-color photos depict a variety of outdoor rooms, from romantic porches to formal patios, and from exotic huts to elegant garden rooms, with descriptive advice on achieving each look. 
From coordinating colors to garden palettes and choosing weather-resistant fabrics for outdoor seating, this savvy guide shows how to transform any garden room or backyard living space into a fabulous outdoor haven. 
Nora Richter Greer is an architecture and design critic. She has written for numerous magazines and newspapers and has contributed to and authored more than a dozen books on architecture, urban design, and interior design. She resides in Washington, D.C.

Outdoor Decorating and Style Guide: Fresh Ideas and Inspiration for Making Beautiful Outdoor Rooms

MORGAN, SUSAN

Your home doesn?t have to stop at its four walls?not if you don?t want it to. With a little creative decorating, you can extend your living space beyond the house, creating special outdoor spaces that combine the comfort of indoor living with the glory of Mother Nature. With this beautiful book, now in paperback, you can learn how to transform your outdoor space into a splendid retreat that celebrates nature, fulfills your rest and relaxation needs, serves as an elegant entertainment room for friends and family, and soothes your soul with its peacefulness. Learn how to make patios and terraces, sunrooms and porches, gazebos and summer houses, decks and loggias, garden rooms and conservatories, and trellises, archways, arbors, and pergolas. Author Nora Richter Greer shows through a variety of full-color photos how all this can be accomplished to make the space as useful, practical, and livable as possible.

Outdoor Decorating And Style Guide

Llewellyn, A. Bronwyn

Quarry Books

Ease into contemporary home design with Modern Nostalgia. Despite predictions that the new millennium would find us lounging on shiny metallic & disposable furniture, most people still want room for familiar classics--graceful Windsor dining chairs or a beautiful French country table. If you treasure tradition, but long for a new look then this book is for you.

Modern Nostalgia

New Line Books

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