Antique Decorating

House Sensation: Spirited and Stylish Home Decorating

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Think Laura Ashley, Terence Conran, Martha Stewart, Marimekko, and Matisse, and you'll have some idea of what Anne McKevitt creates with her bold, original home decor ideas. Her first book introduced her philosophy of reasonably priced, easy-to-achieve, and personally meaningful interior design. House Sensation, her second book, takes up the drop cloth where Style on a Shoestring left off, addressing more permanent decorative changes and leaving no room unreconstructed. From large-scale kitchen remodels to small-scale bathroom redecorating, the author applies her trademark energy to making every project accessible, affordable, and fun.

The book is divided into two parts: "Style and Content" urges the reader to dream and plan, while "How to Achieve It" provides basic techniques and simple methods for turning those dreams into reality.

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How to Buy And Sell Antiques: A Comprehensive Guide from Boot Sales to Full-time Dealing

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Buying and selling antiques is an increasingly popular pastime and many dealers find that it can develop into viable business opportunity. Whether you see it as an enjoyable hobby or a burgeoning profession you will want to be sure that you are well informed; that you know where to find the bargains and how to sell for the greatest profit. That's exactly what this book will tell you: what to buy and sell; where to buy and how much to pay; where and how to sell; using the internet; and doing it properly - the paperwork and the payback. The author also highlights the tricks of the trade and some of the common, and costly, mistakes made, making sure that you make only the best deals. Being an antiques dealer brings with it a huge sense of freedom, along with the opportunity to travel, meet like-minded people and indulge in a profitable and enjoyable occupation. What could be better?

How to Make $20,000 a Year in Antiques and Collectibles Without Leaving Your Job

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The real estate boom has come and gone. The stock market is always a risky business. Today the smart money is in antiques and collectibles: you don't need much to get started, and the market for everything from furniture to folk art, from bottles to baseball cards, is just beginning to explode!

Bruce Johnson, the expert called the "Dear Abby" of antiques, shows how you can turn today's bargains and discounts into tomorrow's hot money-making deals. Here are hundreds of inside tips that show you how to:
-- Get in on the bottom floor before prices begin to go through the roof
-- Enter the business without a formal education or a sizable investment
-- Expand your operation and increase your income without taking time away from your present job
-- Find the best sales, the best days to attend, and the best deals
-- Negotiate bargains with dealers -- and beat them at their own game
-- Create print ads for your wares that will pull in customers eager to buy
-- Sell your treasures at a profit from your home, or at flea markets, yard and garage sales, auctions, and antique malls

Plus:
More than thirty antiques-related services you can run from your home, including caning, appraising, and refinishing.

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The real estate boom has come and gone. The stock market is always a risky business. Today the smart money is in antiques and collectibles: you don't need much to get started, and the market for everything from furniture to folk art, from bottles to baseball cards, is just beginning to explode!

Bruce Johnson, the expert called the "Dear Abby" of antiques, shows how you can turn today's bargains and discounts into tomorrow's hot money-making deals. Here are hundreds of inside tips that show you how to:
-- Get in on the bottom floor before prices begin to go through the roof
-- Enter the business without a formal education or a sizable investment
-- Expand your operation and increase your income without taking time away from your present job
-- Find the best sales, the best days to attend, and the best deals
-- Negotiate bargains with dealers -- and beat them at their own game
-- Create print ads for your wares that will pull in customers eager to buy
-- Sell your treasures at a profit from your home, or at flea markets, yard and garage sales, auctions, and antique malls

Plus:
More than thirty antiques-related services you can run from your home, including caning, appraising, and refinishing.

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How to Sell Antiques and Collectibles on eBay... And Make a Fortune!

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Dennis Prince teams up with antique and collectible expert Lynn Dralle to provide all the information necessary to reap the huge benefits of selling antiques and collectibles on eBay. Written by an eBay Power Seller whose earnings topped $20,000 a month, this book helps you:

• Research types--and eras--of antiques and collectibles
• Find the best merchandise
• Use language that gets buyers to pay the most for the seller's items
• Price strategically. . . and much more!

• List items on eBay for maximum visibility
• Use antiques trade lingo to get the highest bids
• Find, appraise, and buy the five hottest categories
• Use your eBay store to attract customers
• Create a selling strategy that fits your market
• Handle, store, and ship fragile merchandise
• Price strategically for the eBay market

Ideas for Great Home Decorating (Great Series)

Illuminate

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Illuminate sheds new light on how decorating with candles can create different effects and moods throughout the home. Candles are gaining popularity as an economical way to accessorize the home, a back-to-basics accent. While most treatments concentrate on making or decorating the candles themselves, Illuminate shows us how using light can orchestrate a calm environment in every room. Drawing on the mainstream elements of color and aromatherapy, each chapter inspires the home decorator and candle enthusiast to discover the elements of celebration and luxuriation, contemplation, hibernation, invigoration and to use candlelight like a pro.

Inspirations from France and Italy

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In this luxurious new book, best-selling author and acclaimed interior designer Betty Lou Phillips presents fresh and inspiring design ideas from France, Italy, England, Portugal, and beyond, bringing old-world artistry to uptown European glamour.

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French flair and Italian panache combine exquisitely in these rooms that are rich with quality furnishings and well-chosen colors. Beloved author and interior designer Betty Lou Phillips shows how favorite objects gathered from around the globe can be artfully blended in one's home to create a beautiful international setting that is both personal and inviting. Setting one well-appointed space apart from others is a distinctive way of defining style, which invariably communicates the thoughts, needs and feelings of those raising families, welcoming friends and celebrating meaningful occasions in these spaces. That these interiors owe more than a little to French and Italian influences, and sometimes England or Portugal, is noticeable. However, the images also illus-trate that inspiration can readily come from other far-flung cultures, including American shores. One picture offers a wealth of bright ideas.
This eighth book in Betty Lou Phillips' series on European design is filled with 200 color images that dismiss polarized notions about what understated elegance means or doesn't mean as Phillips urges readers likewise to fashion their own unmistakably swank empires, of sorts, whether furnishing a town house, chateau, palazzo or villa by the sea. Aware that old-world artistry is not enough for a sizeable and growing number of design aficionados, Phillips caters to today's tastes, revealing that satisfaction comes from creating uptown European glamour-a chic blend of the traditional and edgy with a bit of attitude apt for an era with more choices than ever.
Betty Lou Phillips is the author of the award-winning Villa Decor, plus The French Connection, Secrets of French Design, Unmistakably French, French Influences, French by Design, and Provencal Interiors: French Country Style in America. A professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers, her work has appeared in Southern Accents, Traditional Home, Decorating, Bedroom & Bath, Window & Wall, Paint Decor, and more. Additionally, she has appeared on the Christopher Lowell Show and the Oprah Winfrey Show. She lives in Dallas, Texas

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Just Like Grandma

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Night is coming, and it's time for Grandma and Granddaughter to get ready for bed. Look at how alike they are: both have pajamas and fluffy white robes, and striped socks and fuzzy slippers. Each one has her own toothbrush and toothpaste, and pillows and blankets for cozying up and cuddling. Plus, the two love reading their books before shutting their lights and going to sleep. Sweet dreams to both!