House & Home : Decorating

Get a realisitic guide to producing construction documents that clearly communicate the interior space of new construction, remodeling, or installation projects with Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors . This highly visual book:.:.; includes such details as furniture, finishes, lighting, and others. more...

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For six years, House & Garden editor-in-chief Dominique Browning has written a monthly column that weaves together personal stories and tips about home decorating, gardening, and raising children with universal themes of domestic life. In Around the House and in the Garden , Browning adapts and expands these well-loved pieces, adding dozens of new essays, to create an insightful and moving narrative about the solace and sense of self that can be found through tending one's home. more...

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emotional. ROOMS. the sensual interiors of benjamin noriega-ortiz. Named by House Beautiful as one of ''America's Most Brilliant Decorators'' for ten consecutive years, Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz is recognized as one of the most stylish and influential of today's interior designers. His sensuous, glamorous, and ethereal work captures an unusual sense of openness and light through the use of color, materials, architecture, and the unexpected integration of fashion. Noriega-Ortiz has traveled the world to design spaces for such clients as rock superstar Lenny Kravitz, bestselling author Laura Esquivel, and celebrity photographer Mark Seliger. Now, with Emotional Rooms, he shares his process with anyone who may not have access to a high-end designer but wants a home or workspace that is at once beautiful and true to themselves. more...

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Plan your home, improve your relationships, and achieve career success with. this easy to follow Feng Shui Guide. Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement objects. in space to achieve harmony with the environment. The practice is estimated. to be more than 3,000 years old. Feng Shui literally means "wind and water". in Chinese. Feng Shui is based on the premise that people, places and things. have energy. Positive energy is called chi and negative energy is called sha. According to an ancient Chinese teaching every person is born with four favorable. and four harmful directions. To fulfill his/her potential a person should utilize. the auspicious directions and avoid “unlucky” ones. Each of the. auspicious directions attracts a slightly different kind of good fortune. For. example sleeping in your SHENG CHI direction will bring you money and career. luck. It is also the direction that you should face when negotiating or giving. an important presentation. If you want to get married or conceive a child you. should focus on your NIEN YEN direction. Your auspicious direction can be calculated. based on your gender and the year you were born. This software uses the Eight. Mansions formula to identify your auspicious directions and explain the meaning. of each direction. Audience: Intended for everyone interested in Feng Shui. Table of Contents:. Home Planning : Landscape | Environment | Front Entrance. Inside the House : Entrance Door | Bedroom | Office | Chinese. Traditional Methods to Enhance Chi Energy | Color Guide. Auspicious Directions : Auspicious Directions Calculator |. Sleeping Directions | Doors | Office. Product Features:.:.; Fully illustrated.; Optimized for a small screen.; Detailed description.; Reveal your auspicious directions and achieve career success, excellent. health, happy marriage and harmonious relationships (based on gender and date. of birth).; Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases.; Acc more...

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Presents an organised, comprehensive and easy to understand overview of the lighting design process. It covers every topic from the nature of light itself, through selecting the correct equipment, to preparing project plans and the finished design documents. Using a dummy example the student is taken through an entire project step by step where the full range of alternatives and design processes are illustrated. The easy to read conversational tone makes the novice feel at home with complex technical concepts and provides an excellent introduction to all newcomers to the subject. The book is ideal for those working in architecture, electrical engineering and interior design who will one day design lighting systems for others to build. A companion website runs alongside the book, at http://litinterior.com/, supporting distance learning projects, providing manufacturers data, calculation engines and downloadable courses for carrying our design exercises. The content of the courses will be linked directly to the book. Includes US codes and standards. more...

Price: $39.95