Acclaimed art consultant and style writer Barbara Guggenheim shows how she decorated a home using eBay, and provides all the information you need to create your own unique home. 
 When art consultant Barbara Guggenheim took on the project of decorating a sample house for KB Home, a premier builder of home development, she wondered how she (or anyone else) could juggle the project with her full–time job and other daily duties. EBay offered the perfect solution–all–hours convenience and an easy and affordable tool for finding just the right thing–and some unexpected things, as well! The result was a fantastic four–bedroom home, completely decorated on a budget using eBay.
 This book follows Barbara on her personal journey, from looking for inspiration, to planning a concept for each room–from the Tiki Loft to the Adirondack–style guest room. It also shows how she navigated the pitfalls of eBay and learned to maximize its advantages, from search and bidding tips to transforming imperfect items. Filled with creative and practical ideas, Decorating on eBay is certain to appeal to the wide audience of young people on a budget–many of whom are already familiar with eBay. This lush four–color book will come alive through the glorious photographs of Jim McHugh of Architectural Digest, and through Barbara's warm, accessible, pithy tone, which will encourage readers everywhere that they, too, can achieve their dream home without the outrageous price tag.

Decorating on eBay : Fast & Stylish on a Budget

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Guggenheim, Barbara

Crafts & Hobbies

Harper

Draws on the professional decorator's experience with utilizing eBay resources to collect needed materials and work within a budget, recounting how she implemented specific design themes within a sample house while overcoming eBay pitfalls, mastering bidding skills, and adapting imperfect items. 30,000 first printing.

Decorating on eBay

HarperDes

What more could possibly be said about the 30 people featured in this volume? Surely, we've all read their biographies or seen biopics, and we're up to speed about how these giants ruled countries, created great art, entertained us, invented stuff, and changed history. Enough, already! But wait. Little-Known Facts About Well-Known People goes beyond stock biographies which reel off the broad strokes or professional accomplishments and what made these people famous or infamous. Rather, the focus here is on what these gods and monsters were up to on the way to the history books-the formative experiences, quirks, and watershed moments that made them the individuals they were or are. Even described are the ways in which they're all just a little bit, shall we say, off-kilter. And thanks to Pamela Sztybel's piercing, touching watercolors, you'll experience Elvis Presley, Winston Churchill, Julia Child, Mahatma Gandhi and the others as you never have before. Yeah, these 30 people are immortal, but as you're about to see, they were human, too. Did you know, for example, that Benjamin Franklin wrote a paper on the benefits of farting, or that Walt Disney was responsible for the death of his mother? Or that Mark Twain invented the modern bra fastener? These facts will change your view of the greats forever. We only hope that reading this book is half as much fun as it was working on it.

Little-Known Facts About Well-Known People

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Marmont Lane

This delightful book, shaped like an actual handkerchief, features over 650 hankies in full color, ranging from the 1940s to the early 1960s. Categories include animals, food and drink, instructions and recipes, history and politics, florals, music, the fifty states, holidays, proverbs, horoscopes, and advertisements. There is even a section on the care and decorative uses of handkerchiefs. 2004 values.

Handkerchiefs: A Collector's Guide- Identification & Values (Book 1)

Guarnaccia, Helene

Antiques & Collectibles

Collector+books

Collecting handkerchiefs is one of the few affordable areas of collecting in which the collectible also takes up very little space. Most people have preconceived notions of what hankies are - white cotton or linen square, decorated with a bit of lace or embroidery - and are surprised and delighted with what they see in this book - color, pattern, and humor. What's more, these hankies are a social history of their time, the 1940s and 1950s. With World War II, women became Rosie the Riveters, making their own money and enjoying their independence. The hankies in Handkerchiefs: A Collector's Guide, Volume 2, reflect this new equality with their bright, optimistic colors and subjects. New social conventions, such as road trips, barbecues, and the cocktail hour, which became the fabric of America in the decade after the war, were chronicled in handkerchiefs. This book brings out the collector in anyone who inherited hankies from a mother or grandmother, or who enjoys good design. There are no repeats from Volume 1 in the more than 600 new examples shown. 2006 values.

Handkerchiefs: A Collector's Guide- Identification & Values, Vol. 2