<p>Describes the country look, and demonstrates restoration techniques for buildings and their furnishings</p>

Country Home Decorating Book

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

miranda-innes

Home Improvement & Design

Gramercy

In 1996, former Country Living garden-editor, Miranda Innes decided to change her life completely. Tired of urban living, bored of her career, out of love with her long-standing partner, she and her son spied a romantic ruin in Andalusia amid its own olive groves, and made an offer. What happened next - selling her London house, and handing in her notice at the magazine - was going to be straightforward, or so she thought. She had not counted on the sudden emergence of a New Man in her Life, the plans of Arsenal football ground to purchase her back garden, a badly slipped disc and the logistics involved in moving a lifetime's possessions. Nor had she realised what a struggle re-building the house, room by room, or planting a garden in the hostile terrain of southern Spain would be. But helped by her new husband, Dan, and an assortment of eccentric locals, not least by the worldly wisdom of Juan the builder, she made it, and over the ensuing four years, the house and pool were built and the garden began to take shape. This is the story of how Miranda got to ma?ana, of her love affair with Spain, and a countryside where 'great jagged peaks range above little fields, white villages tumble like sugar cubes down the sides of hills, and white houses grow room by room in a puzzle of rectangles, topped by corrugated cinnamon-brown terracotta tiles moulded on a man's thigh'. Illustrated throughout with line-drawings by Dan Pearce, Getting to Ma?ana is a book to read and treasure.

Getting to Manana

Travel

Travel Writing

Black Swan.

In 1996, former "Country Living" garden-editor, Miranda Innes decided to change her life completely. Tired of urban living, bored of her career, out of love with her long-standing partner, she and her son spied a romantic ruin in Andalusia amid its own olive groves, and made an offer. What happened next - selling her London house, and handing in her notice at the magazine - was going to be straightforward, or so she thought. She had not counted on the sudden emergence of a new man in her life, the plans of Arsenal football ground to purchase her back garden, a badly slipped disc and the logistics involved in moving a lifetime's possessions. Nor had she realised what a struggle re-building the house, room by room, or planting a garden in the hostile terrain of southern Spain would be. But helped by her new husband, Dan, and an assortment of eccentric locals, not least by the worldly wisdom of Juan the builder, she made it, and over the ensuing four years, the house and pool were built and the garden began to take shape. This is the story of how Miranda got to manana, of her love affair with Spain, and a countryside where "great jagged peaks range above little fields, white villages tumble like sugar cubes down the sides of hills, and white houses grow room by room in a puzzle of rectangles, topped by corrugated cinnamon-brown terracotta tiles moulded on a man's thigh". Illustrated throughout with line-drawings by Dan Pearce, "Getting to Manana" has high production values. With Miranda's gift for lyrical description of place and landscape, and her laugh-out-loud humour, this is a book to read and treasure.

Transworld Pub

Ornamental Gardener

Gardening & Landscape Design

Headline Book Publishing

A selection of leading artists working in the field and commissioned pieces represent papier mache's wide-ranging technical possibilities and creative potential. The projects - jewellery, bowls, frames, clocks, containers, masks and ornaments - are comprehensively explained with easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs and text. They have been carefully selected to teach the reader techniques of papier mache, from using pulp and pasting, to moulding and using ready-made shapes.

Papier Mache (Creative Crafts)

Dorling Kindersley Publishers

Combining practical know-how and ideas with easy-to-learn, step-by-step techniques, this book shows how to make such things as a kaleidoscope cushion for a sofa, and how to revamp an old tray with decoupage. Other techniques include gilding, ceramics, beadwork, fabric painting and papier mache.

Complete Homecrafts

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd.

Craft book, on how to make decorative frames

Craft Library: Decorative Frames

The Book of Candles

<p>A complete guide to using candles in home decoration discusses different types of candles and candle holders, decorating ideas for different themes and occasions, and how to make a variety of candles</p>

The Book Of Candles

Crafts & Hobbies

DK Publishing

The Country Home Decorating Book

The aim of this decorating guide is to help readers restyle their homes in a wide variety of country designs. The book provides advice on how to create a complete look - including soft furnishings, furniture and creative ideas - and how to display collections and restore structural features. The commissioned photography, and inventive artwork, gives creative ideas first for choosing a look that is right for your home and then carrying - from the first steps in restoration through to a range of decorative finishes - an individual result that suits the country today. These include painting a floor design, reverse stencilling and how to achieve a traditional aged look. All are shown in step-by-step photo sequences. A furniture chapter tells you how to recognize traditional construction techniques as well as how to use the furniture stylishly; the country table, the country seat, dresser cupboards and shelving. Finally, a chapter entitled "Treasure Troves" gives advice on the display of collections: jugs, plates, basketry and pictures as well as decorative techniques for displaying fresh flowers.

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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Country Home Decorating Book

Getting to Manana

Getting to Manana

Ornamental Gardener

Papier Mache (Creative Crafts)

Complete Homecrafts

Craft Library: Decorative Frames

The Book Of Candles

The Country Home Decorating Book

The Book of Candles