Monday, March 18, 2024
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Decorating and Color Books

Learning to See

Learning to See: Bringing the World Around You Into Your Home by Vicente Wolf Hardcover – 199 pages ISBN: 1579652174 In Learning to See, interior designer Vicente Wolf provides real-life advice and over 160 inspiring photographs to open the door on the creative process behind successful interiors, and to open your eyes to the designer […]

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The Home Zone

The Home Zone: Making the Most of Your Living Space with an introduction by Caroline Clifton-Mogg Hardcover – 256 pages ISBN: 1841722677 This book is one of my favorites. In The Home Zone, top interiors writers and hundreds of inspirational photographs of real homes guide readers through five popular decorating styles and discuss working with […]

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Designing With Spirituality: The Creative Touch

Designing With Spirituality: The Creative Touch by Carol Soucek King Hardcover: 160 pages ISBN: 0866366911 Designing With Spirituality: The Creative Touch explores the link between good design and its spiritual reflection. Beautiful photographs of 30 residences in the US, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Bali, and Brazil illustrate how color, form, texture, light and proportion are used […]

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Colors for Your Every Mood

Colors for Your Every Mood: Discover Your True Decorating Colors by Leatrice Eiseman Paperback – 176 pages ISBN: 189212338X In Colors for Your Every Mood, sumptuous photographs of different rooms, in a wide variety of decorating styles, are accompanied by color wheel basics and an in depth look at how different colors inspire different moods […]

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Tricia Guild on Color

Tricia Guild on Color: Decoration, Furnishing, Display by Tricia Guild Paperback. ISBN: 0847818772 While Color Palettes is serene, Tricia Guild on Color is bold. Based in England, designer Tricia Guild is famous for her ability to mix color and pattern. Her company produces fabric, wallpaper and home furnishings. In 200 color photographs she inspires us […]

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Color Schemes for Every Room

Color Schemes For Every Room by Annie Sloan Paperback – 160 pages ISBN: 1571457615 In Color Schemes, author and renowned paint expert Annie Sloan presents over 30 inspiring themes and 300 color palettes, ranging form the light-filled hues of the Scandinavian landscape to the vibrant tones and rhythms of a Latin carnival and the ethereal […]

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Color Palettes: Atmospheric Interiors

Color Palettes: Atmospheric Interiors Using the Donald Kaufman Color Collection by Suzanne K. Butterfield, Donald Kaufman, Jacqueline Goewey Hardcover: 208 pages ISBN: 060960144X Filled with information that takes the mystery out of how color works in a room. Twenty six amazing interiors are shown with explanations of why each palette was chosen, and how individual […]

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House of Belief: Creating Your Personal Style

House of Belief: Creating Your Personal Style by Kelee Katillac Paperback: 160 pages ISBN: 1586850741 In House of Belief: Creating Your Personal Style, author and interior designer Kelee Katillac urges us not to become slaves to design trends, but inspires us to find a decorating style that is a reflection of our personal style and […]

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A Room of her Own

A Room of her Own: Women’s Personal Spaces by Chris Casson Madden Hardcover: 224 pages ISBN: 0517599392 A Room of her Own: Women’s Personal Spaces introduces us to the sanctuaries various women have created in their own homes. Whether it’s a quiet sewing room, a tent in the garden, or even a corner of a […]

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Inspiring Books to Help You Create Empowering Personal Space

A house is just an empty shell until we make it a home by filling it with color, furnishings, art and special objects that have meaning for us. Through thoughtful placement of these, we build an environment that enriches us, provides sanctuary and also one that is welcoming to others. They feel it as soon […]

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