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Sharon Hanby-Robie My Name Isn't Martha but I Can Decorate My Home: The Real Person's Guide to Creating a Beautiful Home Easily and Affordably
Pocket 1998-02-01 0671015427 / 9780671015428 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
There are a lot of home-decorating books out there that don't do more than show you a bunch of pretty pictures of expensive rooms, but this is not one of them! It is probably the most valuable primer available on everything that goes into the decoration of a house. Sharon Hanby-Robie knows what home-decorating newbies really need to know. The book is organized with a let's-start-at-the-very-beginning approach, containing an enormous wealth of very basic information (such as the internal construction of a sofa). There's a heavy emphasis on furniture--four chapters are devoted to various aspects of it, from case goods to built-ins to upholstery; other chapters deal with flooring, walls, windows, and fabrics. Important tips, many of which can save you a great deal of money, are included in sidebars. (For example, when you have furniture reupholstered, be sure to ask for any unused fabric to be returned to you--you might need it eventually, and you've already paid for it!) When you finally talk to a decorator, painter, furniture salesperson, carpet installer, or other professional, you'll be armed with the right questions and information to avoid silly mistakes (such as buying a sofa that won't fit through your doors) and getting taken for an expensive ride.
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Tracy Kidder House
Houghton Mifflin (T) 1985-10 0395363179 / 9780395363171 Paperback Used: Good Paperback
Book DescriptionTracy Kidder takes readers to the heart of the American Dream: the building of a family's first house with all its day-to-day frustrations, crises, tensions, challenges, and triumphs.
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Witold Rybczynski Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture
Viking Adult 1992-11-01 0670844217 / 9780670844210 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
Former library copy with usual markings. Good, clean condition. 100% of the proceeds from the purchase of this book will go towards our family's Christmas fundraising project. We are going to sponser at least one child for cleft palate corrective surgery through the Smile Train organization. Thank you for your purchase! Dust jacket protected by mylar cover. With catholic taste, McGill University professor of architecture Rybczynski admires Michael Graves's post-modernist Portland Building in Oregon, Swedish artist Carl Larsson's modified log cabin and the New York Public Library, "built for the ages." Readers of his books Home and The Most Beautiful House in the World will enjoy this collection of previously published articles and essays. Rybczynski touts the advantages of smaller houses and links the revival of traditional house forms to a longing for the bourgeois ideals of stability and domesticity. With his usual grace, wit and lucidity, he writes about the quest for a regional California architectural style, about high tech as a "mass-market fashion," about airports, about Palladio's 15th century Italian villas and about art museum design and suburban sprawl. In one essay he interprets the decade 1910-1919 as a period of disorientation that ushered in modernism. As for the 1990s, Rybczynski sees no end to the profession's self-indulgence, as architects shirk their responsibilities to community and society. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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