Antique Decorating

Scrapbooking Life's Celebrations: 200 Page Designs

Product Description
Scrapbookers have a new reason to celebrate: the arrival of the fifth entry in the successful 200 Page Designs Series, which includes Holiday Scrapbooking and Scrapbooking Childhood Memories. Here, crafters will find unbounded inspiration in page after page of unique layouts for beautifully documenting every one of life's special moments: birthdays, graduations, weddings, anniversaries, holidays and all baby's "firsts" (first step, first smile, first snowstorm). The designs feature the prettiest combinations of paper, decorative details such as stickers and charms, and smart suggestions for finding vintage images. There are also dozens of creative ideas for using today's great scrapbooking products to create cards, tags, books, and memory boxes. A Selection of the F&W Book Clubs.

Second-Hand Style: Finding and Renewing Antique Treasures

Book Description
Clean out that attic and go to that rummage sale! Among the racks of items at garage sales and flea markets lie diamonds in the rough: candlesticks, lampshades, picture frames, and furniture that, with just a little imagination, can be transformed from junk into household jewels. This crafty, creative, how-to title features 42 easy and affordable projects with step-by-step instructions that teach readers how to refurbish their findsand use them to accent their home decor.

Using common art supplies and some elbow grease, anyone can turn faded treasures into retro-chic, totally unique home accessories. Feathered candelabras, sequined mules, a tea cozy knit from old sweaters: the 179 color photographs not only illustrate each stage of a project, but also showcase fabulously funky interiors chockful of inspirational details.

Shell Chic: The Ultimate Guide to Decorating Your Home With Seashells

From Library Journal
The fashion for seashells as decorative material has taken a variety of forms over time, from baroque garden grottoes encrusted with shells to Victorian bric-a-brac displayed under glass. This well-illustrated book by Marshall and Vollmer von Falken (who coauthored Making Bits & Pieces Mosaics) contains step-by-step projects for traditional items of shell art such as flower arrangements and shell-encrusted boxes, all interspersed with a colorful running narrative describing decorative uses of shells by contemporary designers. Highly recommended for public libraries.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Not a guide to shell games, exactly, but to marvelously creative ways to use the fruits of the sea in and outside the home. In fact, Marshall has produced one of the most unusual crafts-home decor books yet--unusual in the more than 15 projects offered, in the elegant photography by Sabine Vollmer von Falken, and in the wealth of information on collectors, artists, history, and shell life. A profile of painter Ann Getsinger, who specializes in shells, nestles near the sidebar on the Sanibel Shell Fair, a juried show held during the first week of March. Recipes form the author's "Shell Buffet," in which she thanks all contributors to the book, and are featured in the same chapter as a profile of Elegant Cheesecakes, a pastry firm majoring in shell-ornamented cakes. Though well designed and aesthetically pleasing, projects detailed here wouldn't quite fit in the run-of-the-mill home, for these are inventive, imaginative, and almost 100 percent fantasy. Barbara Jacobs
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Silly Dog Tricks: Fun for You and Your Best Friend

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Pooch-loving kids will get a kick out of this 'fetching' look at how to teach their dogs new tricks. The concealed-spiral–bound book contains a cool training clicker and squeaky toy securely tucked inside. And it’s filled with “pawsitively” great stuff—everything from “fetch” to “high-five fido.” Each stunt is fun to teach, low-pressure, and gives youngsters pride in themselves and their pet. Plus, these enjoyable and scientifically state-of-the-art training methods help alleviate behavioral problems in dogs and strengthen the attachment between animal and owner. The information covers basic “tricks of the trade,” including using treats and sound effects to reinforce lessons.  Soon children will have dogs retrieving balls; sitting, lying down, and begging on command; waving bye-bye; giving a little wink; and even skateboarding.
 

Sit and Solve Crosswords (Sit and Solve Series)

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Don't get cross when you're sitting on the can.keep calm with crosswords! Know the name of Kate Winslet's Titanic character (4 letters)? Another word for an "average guy" (7 letters)? What has 78 cards (5 letters)? More than 40 small, fun puzzles cover topics like TV, sports, theater, food, politics, history, and geography. Here's just a sample to get you started.


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Got a few minutes? Make every one of them count when you put your crossword skills to the test! They may be small in size, but each puzzles poses a big challenge.

Sponging Etc.: The Home Decorating Institute (Creative Touches)

Book Description
- Shows the best tools and materials for a job.

About The Author
The editors of Creative Publishing international have created dozens of best-selling titles in the fields of home repair, home improvement, home decor, and landscaping.

Staffordshire III: Romantic Transfer Patterns : Cups Plates and Early Victorian China

Stairscaping: A Guide to Buying, Remodeling, and Decorating Interior and Exterior...

Product Description
Staircases are an unavoidable design choice for any multilevel home. Because a staircase can set the entire tone for you house, it is imperative to find the style that suits you to a tee. Stairscaping, at once an idea book and a how-to-guide, brings you up close and personal with this indispensable piece of architecture, and shows you how to enhance your existing staircase to fit your style.

This primer covers the worldwide evolution of residential staircases, including both classical and contemporary interior and exterior staircases, thorough well-researched, accessible text and detailed, designer photography. A full resource section provides information for staircase restoration, resource tools, and other helpful industry contacts.

About The Author
Andrew Karre is a writer and an editor specializing in home improvement. He is the author of a book on lighting design and has contributed to and edited books on topics ranging from plumbing to remodeling to woodworking. He lives and writes in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Start Taking Great Landscape Photographs

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We've all been there--a beginning shutterbug, camera in hand and hopes high, staring over the precipice of the Grand Canyon, or up at the skyline of New York City--yet all you take home is some lousy rolls of hand-size fuzzy photos. It doesn't have to be that way-an award-winning landscape photographer shows how to improve your techniques, one tip at a time, until you, too, produce photos worthy of a site's grandeur. The secret is learning to see like your camera does, using your lenses and filters to make the most of light, focus, exposure, and choose just the right location and composition, as well as digital image processing and enhancement, to make Mother Nature your friend.

Step-By-Step Table Decorating (Step-By-Step)

Stephanie Hoppen's Decorating with Style: Elegant Details and Creative Solutions for...

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Detail decorating is a simple and effective way to revitalize and personalize a room without changing the furniture or knocking down walls. In her latest book, Stephanie Hoppen offers hundreds of quick, stylish ideas for transforming a room to get a new, refreshing, and elegant look.

Stephanie's chapters include "Window on Style," which focuses on curtains, window seats, blinds, borders, trim, and window boxes; "Pretty as a Picture" tells how to select and display paintings, photographs, panels, mirrors, and wall hangings; and "Chic Changes," with sections on cushions, throws, fabrics, and textures.

More than 200 full-color photographs provide the inspiration and Hoppen's 40 years of experience as an international interior designer supply the know-how for anyone who wants to transform their living spaces quickly, inexpensively, and stylishly.

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Detail decorating is a simple and effective way to revitalize and personalize a room without changing the furniture or knocking down walls. In her latest book, Stephanie Hoppen offers hundreds of quick, stylish ideas for transforming a room to get a new, refreshing, and elegant look.

Stephanie's chapters include "Window on Style," which focuses on curtains, window seats, blinds, borders, trim, and window boxes; "Pretty as a Picture" tells how to select and display paintings, photographs, panels, mirrors, and wall hangings; and "Chic Changes," with sections on cushions, throws, fabrics, and textures.

More than 200 full-color photographs provide the inspiration and Hoppen's 40 years of experience as an international interior designer supply the know-how for anyone who wants to transform their living spaces quickly, inexpensively, and stylishly.

Straight Talk on Decorating from Lynette Jennings

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Takes a down-to-earth approach to decorating: Design isn’t mysterious; it’s about tools, not rules.

Tour fabulous homes from coast to coast, including exclusive, never-before-seen tours of Jennings’ homes in Toronto and Atlanta.

Teaches the basics on color, accessories, fabrics, proportion, and furniture.

Inside Flap Copy
Lights! Camera ! Decorate!

TV's most popular interior designer is about to make a house call -- to your place! And all you have to do is open this book to let her in. In her fresh, fun, and conversational style, Lynette Jennings, host of Discovery Channel's top-rated television show, "Lynette Jennings Design," advises, cajoles, commiserates, pokes holes in common decorating myths -- and then guides you in creating the comfortable, stylish, and personal home you've always wanted. Along the way, Lynette:
* Takes you on never-before-seen tours of her own homes in Toronto and Atlanta, showing how she has meshed good design and personal style with the varying needs of five children and one husband
* Explains design basics in conversational, often witty copy
* Shows you how to cut through what she calls the miseries of choice and map out your own personal color scheme using her exclusive Color Charting System
* Challenges you to take some color and style risks in her motivational No Excuses Now! chapter
* Tells you how to make the most of any space using her No-Nails 7-Step Approach to Getting a Roomy Feeling