Bed and breakfast decoration books
General decoration books
Vintage style is faded rose prints, crisp antique linens, and the cozy elegance of country living. Popular and pretty, it's a look that can be captured with the help of this definitive guide. Christina Strutt, owner of the renowned design firm Cabbages & Roses, takes a tour of town and country homes to showcase, with beautiful photographs, hundreds of style ideas. Handmade floral fabric prints, mismatched country crocks, heirloom pieces, and thrift-store finds decorate the vintage kitchen, while living rooms are cozy with patchwork cushions, antique silks, and oversized family sofas. The room-by-room tour leads to the vintage bedrooms, where billowing muslin drapes, flower prints, and embroidered bed linens create a tranquil retreat. The look is beautiful and timeless--and with this book, easy to achieve.
Cottage-style decorating is the practice of creating the ambience of a 19th century English cottage. It captures the romance of a simple but delightful home located in a peaceful, country landscape. A cottage-style home is quaint and colorful, full of nooks and crannies; where the furnishings and accessories are truly unique and demonstrate ingenuity and charm. A cottage-style home is fascinating in its attention to detail. Hand-crafted themes predominate, and the use of decorative fabric projects is striking. The most popular themes are those evoking a carefully cultivated, natural landscape.
The cottage-style movement is one of the most popular trends in home decorating. It reflects a striking consumer movement toward lifestyle simplicity. This book teaches readers the key principles behind cottage-style decorating. It includes hundreds of idea photos demonstrating these principles in real-life practice, and gives instructions for more than two dozen ingenious projects that anyone can build.
Those who relish staying in the cozy, warm and design-rich bed and breakfast inns know that these inns add a new dimension to travel! The author features a nationwide selection of inns that have a flare for showcasing antiques and collectibles. This volume is a rich treasury of 41 such inns with 160 gorgeous color photographs. You will love your visit in pictures of inns that are passionate havens for people who love glass and pottery such as Watts and Yellow Ware; textiles including vintage clothing and quilts; home furnishings such as rare books and furniture; the toys of our childhood including dolls and teddy bears; decorative and holiday items featuring Snowbabies and Longaberger baskets, and housewares including teapots, crocks and coffee grinders. With this book you will find many ideas to bring your antiques and collectibles in your own condo, apartment and home to life! 160 color photos.
Landis, contributing editor to Metropolitan Home, expands on her previous book, Elegant and Easy Rooms (LJ 1/98), dividing its information into separate books and giving more tips she has assembled from interior designers over the years. While in her previous book she gave unaccredited tips, here she identifies the designers and even mentions specific products, such as which Benjamin Moore color a designer recommends for hallways, making the information even more helpful to amateur decorators. In each book, she discusses furniture, windows, ceilings, and walls, concluding with a list of resources for home furnishings, paint, and accessories. An excellent purchase for public libraries.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Much of this book provides a look at homeowners' decorating schemes in a variety of styles, such as traditional, mid-century modern, and southwestern, through numerous color photographs captioned with budget-stretching tips and the homeowners' decorating tips. Chapters that illustrate the use of color, pattern, furniture, and wall and window treatments, again with color photographs and captioned with decorating tips, follow these real-life decorating examples. A good addition for any size public library.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Bedroom decoration books
Enter more than 250 of the most beautiful guestrooms in the world, and dream up wonderful ideas for your own sleeping quarters. Herein lie all manner of inspiration for every sort of bedroom, from lofty hideaways under slanting eaves, to enormous, two-room master suites. You'll get ideas for bedspreads and pillows, curtains and upholstery, wallpaper and window seats, and ideas for incorporating antiques or a favorite collection into your decor. An amazing showcase of beds, from four-posters fit for a king, to unique, handcrafted antiques in all their intricate glory. Plus ideas for incorporating extra features like whirlpool tubs and fireplaces into the sleeping chamber.
About the Author
Tina Skinner is a professional writer and editor specializing in home design.
Your visitors will feel like pampered guests at a good hotel when you follow the decorating and entertaining advice of two successful innkeepers. It doesn't matter whether you dedicate an entire room to guests, or simply adapt a convertible sofa in a multi-purpose room: it's not size that counts, but the imaginative touches that matter most. You'll find pages of grace-over-space ideas for furnishing, decorating, and outfitting many types of guest areas, all photographed to display magic hospitality touches. Best of all are the hundreds of tips for pampering your guests, including seating, lighting, and privacy, along with welcoming touches like flowers, snacks, and gift baskets. There's even a section on how to make a bathroom guestworthy, with special oils, soaps, salts, and towel arrangements.
About the Author
The author of 14 books, Chris Madden is host of HGTV's Interiors by Design, has been design correspondent for The Oprah Show and Later Today, and has made frequent appearances on Today and Good Morning America. She is editor-at-large for Homestyle magazine, writes a weekly syndicated column for The Scripps-Howard News Service, and is spokesperson for the Wallpaper Council. The highly successful "Chris Madden Collection" for Bassett Furniture was introduced in 2000, and her accessories collection for Austin InternationalChris Madden & Companydebuts in 2001. She lives with her husband and two sons in Rye, New York.
Living room decoration books
Landis, contributing editor to Metropolitan Home, expands on her previous book, Elegant and Easy Rooms (LJ 1/98), dividing its information into separate books and giving more tips she has assembled from interior designers over the years. While in her previous book she gave unaccredited tips, here she identifies the designers and even mentions specific products, such as which Benjamin Moore color a designer recommends for hallways, making the information even more helpful to amateur decorators. In each book, she discusses furniture, windows, ceilings, and walls, concluding with a list of resources for home furnishings, paint, and accessories. An excellent purchase for public libraries.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Dining room decoration books
In collaboration with photographer Joshua Greene (Lee Bailey's Country Weekends), journalist Shelia Chefetz presents a unique book that turns the dining experience into a feast for the senses. 250 full-color illustrations.
Table settings decoration books
All it takes are a few easy and thoughtful touches to set a perfect table! Just one look at these beautiful color photographs will inspire you to rediscover the hidden bounty in your cupboards and drawers, and to go out and search for treasures in shops and flea markets. Design settings with china or ironstone, damask or homespun, candles or lanterns, and other attractive details. Do the little things that count--like intricately folding napkins, following the specially commissioned how-to photos.
From Publishers Weekly
For occasions when cooking a delicious meal just isn't enough, freelance writer and photo stylist Rigg here offers domestic dynamos ideas for themed table décor. Twenty table settings and their accompanying crafts projects (e.g., "French bistro" calls for red sponge-painted bowls, "Ethnic ambience" for a hand-stamped tablecloth and "Winter picnic" for an appliqued throw) are displayed in bright photographs designed to inspire readers to ever higher heights of mealtime style. The projects themselves are simple and inexpensive, as the introduction promises, although the settings in their entirety may not be so easy to achieve. For the "Afternoon tea" tabletop, for instance, the suggested handicraft is a lovely and uncomplicated hydrangea and rose centerpiece. But as far as the rest of the décor is concerned, "only the best" will do: white linen napkins with a matching tablecloth, "dainty cake forks and teaspoons" and a bone china tea pot are all "musts." The "Winter picnic" is a little simpler-though "stylish picnicware, napkins and a cruet set are vital"-but its cute throw, achieved by sewing felt leaves onto a blanket, probably wouldn't last through a single wash cycle. Other, smaller projects (Rigg calls them "mini-makes") are also recommended, and may be more realistic endeavors for the time-pressed homemaker: a bangle napkin ring, a pumpkin serving bowl and fabric jar tops are all quick ways to liven up a table. But ideas like these-and indeed, like many of the projects-abound in women's lifestyle magazines, which means readers might want to spend a few dollars on a Martha Stewart issue instead of many times that much on this glossy but superficial guide.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The bestselling author of The Scented Room, Simply Flowers, and All Things Are Possible now applies her talents to creating splendid tables with this collection of dozens of ideas for marvelous centerpieces, napkin rings, candles, and more. 275 color photos.
Bathroom decoration books
The bathroom, any bathroom, begs to be designed as a space for both relaxing comfort and complete privacy--at once a utilitarian space of functionality and a peaceful oasis. The Bathroom Planner is full of practical advice and handy tools that will help readers looking to update their bathroom--or completely remodel it--find the perfect design.
From the planning stage to final decorating, this book includes innovative and dramatic ideas for master baths, fitness bathrooms, family bathrooms, powder rooms, and more. More than 200 color illustrations and photographs.
