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If The Sea Calls You
This beautiful book will transport you to the sea of your dreams. The photographs are evocative and dreamlike. Whatever your sea dreams are, you will find them in this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Decorating    3. Decorating - General    4. House & Home    5. Interior Design - Style Books    6. Interior decoration    7. Seaside architecture    8. House & Home / Decorating   

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Expected more..
I was sorta disappointed with this book. I expected more wide-angled shots, instead i get endless queues of close-ups. Monochrome Home makes a nice coffee-table book nevertheless, but if you're seeking pages and pages of pretty examples with varied shots..then forget this..browse on. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Decorating    2. Decorating - General    3. Home Improvement / Construction    4. House & Home    5. Interior Design - Style Books    6. Residential Interior Design    7. Architecture / Interior Design    8. Art / Design / Decorative   

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Intelligently Presented and Extremely Useful
After sourcing out dozens of books on office interior design, I found Julie Rayfield's Guide To Office Interior Design more than helpful. It was a real gift from heaven! I'm totally new to the world of design and about to start a job in sales and management for an international office furniture supplier and designer. I needed some information quickly. And I wanted it in a user-friendly, comprehendible manner. Reading the Gudie to Office Interior Design was like doing a crash-course in interior design without the heavy technical approach you would normally be subjected to. Read more

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Commercial Interior Design    3. Decorating    4. Interior Design - General    5. Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings    6. Architecture / Interior Design    7. Interior design    8. Office & workplace    9. Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc   

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Great approach, with a bit of everything
This book pulls together a variety of spiritual concepts - feng shui, goddesses, purification/smudging, creating altars, use of stones and crystals, aromatherapy/scents in the home, and colors.It's really a great overview.Activities like spring cleaning and decluttering are covered as are specific rooms like bedrooms, kitchen, etc.There are some terrific photographs throughout the book which really inspire.I like that the author put all of this together into one book.I have other books that talk around all this - one on feng shui, one on crystals, one on potpourri, etc.This book ties them together and I feel like now I can go back to those other books and apply them better.

One of the best "sacred space" books I've read
This book was a real "find" for me.I have several books on feng shui and space clearing, and this one was intuitive, yet practical at the same time.It is spiritual but loaded with remedies for clearing one's space on this earth while we are here!I never thought to talk to my house, yet it makes perfect sense!It reads almost like a novel and is just full of information.I wish I could go home from work now and continue with the "read"!

Great Overview of different spiritual aspects of home
When I first looked over this book I did not get into it.But as I began to buy new furniture for a new home and pulled together my tastes and sytles (The Domain Book is great for that!), I found this book to be awonderfully insightful book that helped me to consider Feng Shui andblessing my home and many other spiritual and tangible aspects of thisplace called my home. I have ordered a second one today for a friend. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Decorating    2. Decorating - General    3. Feng-shui    4. General    5. Home Improvement / Construction    6. Interior Design - Style Books    7. Interior decoration    8. Body, Mind & Spirit / New Thought    9. Fortune-telling & divination    10. Home furnishing & decoration    11. Mind, body, spirit: disciplines & techniques   

Subjects:  1. Ancient Law    2. General    3. Government - Comparative    4. Interior Design - General    5. Law    6. Law, Hittite    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Sources    9. Jurisprudence & General Issues    10. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    11. Literary studies: classical, early & medieval   

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100 Of The World's Best Bars
This is a great resource book. And this group out of Milwaukee, FLUX DESIGN
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Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Interior Design - General    3. Interior Design - Style Books    4. International Architecture - General    5. Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings    6. Interior design    7. Restaurant & pub guides   

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Inspirational, Energizing...
This book is fun to own.Lots of good ideas that can be realistically applied. The pictures are beautiful and the writing truly energizes and inspires one to look with new eyes at the way space is used not only in ones own home, but also in public buildings and spaces which one occupies as daily life is lived.I refer to this book often, and would recommend it to anyone interested in beautifying and simplifying their environment.

Great BEFORE you build
This book has wonderful design ideas if you are working with an architect designing a new home, if you are or remodeling an old one.If you already have a home and want to incorporate her ideas, it might be a little difficult.It is a very educational book with beautiful photos, however, I wouldn't recommend it if you aren't planning on doing any major renovation or construction.

A beautiful book to simply page through for ideas
Architect and visionary Sarah Susanka presents Home By Design: Inspiration For Transforming House Into Home, a tour of thirty beautifully designed homes with the author's twenty-seven key insights into what gives each dwelling its special aesthetic panache. Full color photographs by Grey Crawford and floor diagrams of each home illustrate the text, which turns a keen eye toward the unique character and flow of each construction. Home By Design is a beautiful book to simply page through for ideas, and an inspirational resource for the novice do-it-yourself enthusiast, as well as having value for the experienced architectural designer as well.
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Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Architecture    3. Architecture, Domestic    4. Decorating    5. Decorating - General    6. Decoration & Ornament    7. Design & Construction    8. Designs and plans    9. Home Improvement / Construction    10. House & Home    11. Interior Design    12. Interior Design - General    13. United States    14. House & Home / General   

Subjects:  1. Ancient - General    2. Government - Comparative    3. History    4. Interior Design - General    5. Language Arts & Disciplines    6. Law    7. Law, Ancient    8. Library & Information Science    9. Middle East    10. Politics / Current Events   

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Surprisingly useful
I loved this book--and, while I'm certainly not going to work in a Tiki-flavored cube and expect a promotion, the ideas weren't terribly impractical for my home office (zen cube) and my kids' rooms (garden cube), guest bathroom (modified safari cube), so if you're looking for fresh and interesting ideas for small spaces, this book is for you.
Great ideas to get rid of your boring gray cube!
It's great for gathering some interesting ideas for improving the standard-issue cube. Most of the finished cubes are way too over the top to really do, but I think the tips are useful for how to copy some of the things they did, plus they have a resources list in the back if you want to visit the websites they used. I'm definitely planning to use this book for inspiration to make my workspace more fun. Even if you never actually change anything in your area, this book is still good for laughs - use it as a "cube"-table book! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Humor    3. Interior Design    4. Interior Design - General    5. Office decoration    6. Topic - Business and Professional    7. United States    8. Humour   

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Colourful Cuba
This is a great coffee table book of good quality.The colour photographs are excellent, accompanied by descriptive text.I bought it out of a sense of curiosity of how the more affluent Cubans might live.Unfortunately, as it turns out, I don't generally share their taste in design or dark furniture, but don't let that put you off an excellent and informative book.

Astonishing
Cuban Elegance is an astonishing work. That Michael Connors and Bruce Buck were able to navigate the bureaucracies to get to Cuba and to the subjects of the book; astonishing that with an admitted paucity of research material they were able to craft a book that reveals the wealth of historic artifacts in Cuba.
Beautiful photos and fine writing about Cuban furniture
This book is the first comprehensive review of Cuban furniture from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century.Connors and Buck, the author and photographer, spent months touring Cuba and doing detective work to gain access to relics of past eras.Read more

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Cuba    3. European    4. Furniture design    5. Furniture, Colonial    6. Interior decoration    7. Subjects & Themes - Travel - World/South America    8. Travel - Foreign    9. Architecture / Interior Design    10. Furniture & cabinetmaking    11. Interior design   

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Great for beginners!
For someone that knows absolutely nothing about putting together a room this book has my highest approval.This is like a crash course in design because he gives you all of the design basics like how to choose color, what kind of furniture to use, how to place your pictures, where to place the furniture, how to make a room look smaller or bigger with all of the above.Plus there's a lot of information on the basics of window treatments, lighting, upholstery.This book was titled very well and I very much recommend it for someone that doesn't have a clue about decorating.

This Book is Worth $40 Because....
...it gets you thinking about where to spend your precious decorating dollars. (Bilhuber advises against dumping your budget in kitchens and bathrooms in favor of making bigger statements in foyers and living rooms, for example.) I cook almost all my family's meals so I was EXTREMELY tempted to replace the white appliances in a home I recently purchased with stainless steel ones. I have instead decided to spend that money having the home's interior professionally painted and perhaps purchase a new oriental rug for my living room. When I think about which will make a bigger impact (freshly painted walls and a lovely rug in the first room people see or silver GE Profile appliances versus white ones in the rear of the house) it's pretty much a no brainer. I suppose it's fine to throw a wad of dough at a kitchen remodel if you're filthy rich and can also afford to decorate the rest of your house to the hilt. Bilhuber seems to recognize that that's not the case for the bulk of us, however. The book has also inspired me in smaller ways like decorating with ferns and pinpointing paint colors based on my favorite possessions such as the oat-colored cashmere cardigan I always turn to. Now if I could only decide whether to paint my ceilings Benjamin Moore's Atrium White as he suggests or Swiss Coffee, which is my favorite!

Give It A Browse
Bilhuber is obviously a talented designer and the lovely rooms in the book demonstrate this. Getting the basic concepts of design across to his readers somehow didn't gel. He includes some information that seems obvious:
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Subjects:  1. Decorating    2. Decorating - General    3. Decoration & Ornament    4. Home Improvement / Construction    5. House & Home    6. Interior Design - General    7. Interior decoration    8. Interior design    9. Residential Interior Design    10. Architecture / Interior Design    11. Home & House Maintenance    12. House & Home / Decorating   

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MR YORK DID NO RESEARCH - FULL OF MISTAKES
I live in The Royal Palace in Belgrade it is my family's home and my home since our revolution 5 October 2000. Mr York did not even bother to contact anyone in my office to get the correct facts. His entry about Milosevic (Page 102) is loaded with errors. Please visit [...] for correct information. If he writes rubbish about Milosevic and me and my family then imagine what he writes about the other entries. Again it is all wrong.

A Book You Can't Quite Put Down, Thankfully It's Small
The front end flap of the dust jacket says a lot about the book. It's a quote from P. J. O'Rourke: 'Saddam's chandelier was the size of a two-car garage. If a reason to invade Iraq was wanted, felony interior decorating would have done.'
Pairing interior design with a funny look at history's alarming dictators
DICTATOR STYLE: LIFESTYLES OF THE WORLD'S MOST COLORFUL DESPOTS is a hard book to peg: pairing interior design with a funny look at history's alarming dictators, it blends a racy sense of humor with fun profiles of the inner sanctums of the terrifying. Sixteen such interiors - largely bygone by now - are featured along with dictator profiles and 'achievements': you don't know whether to laugh or cry - but will probably wind up doing both.
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Subjects:  1. Decorating    2. Decorating - General    3. Home Improvement / Construction    4. House & Home    5. Political Corruption    6. Residential Interior Design    7. House & Home / Decorating   

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. History    3. History: World    4. Interior Design - General    5. Renaissance   

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A New Genre?
In her Bungalow books Jane Powell has come close to inventing a new genre: the architectural book that is actually fun to read.The latest (Bungalow Details:Interior)is no exception. The illustrations by Linda Svendsen are stellar, as always, but sometimes I think they distract from the best part: Ms. Powell's writing. Jane Powell manages to combine extraordinary erudition with a real sense of fun, two things that virtually never go together. Her knowledge is encyclopedic, her humor unending, her love of puns totally scandalous. She is also wise, with a real sense of what should and should not be done with old houses and the resources they represent. The writings in her Bungalow (and Linoleum) books deserve to be excerpted and presented in a smaller, less expensive edition: the Sayings of Chairman Jane, if you will, devoid of distracting pictures. I highly recommend this and all of her books. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Bungalows    3. Decorating    4. Decorating - General    5. Do-It-Yourself    6. History    7. Home Improvement / Construction    8. House & Home    9. Interior Design - Style Books    10. Interior architecture    11. Interior decoration    12. Repair    13. United States    14. Architecture    15. Home & House Maintenance    16. House & Home / Decorating   

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Decorating    4. Decorating - General    5. Decoration and ornament    6. Handicraft    7. Hobbies/Crafts    8. Home Improvement / Construction    9. House furnishings    10. Interior Design - Style Books    11. Louisiana    12. Crafts & Hobbies / Decorating   

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best of the bunglaow books
Together writer Jane Powell and photographer Linda Svendsen create the best bungalow books on the market -- full of information, not just fluff. Whether you are thinking of remodelling your house, changing a few details, or just want to understand the history of your bungalow, this is the book to buy... and really, this book is very cheap compared to the price of a bad remodel.
Excellent reference guide to Craftsman bungalows.
I don't live in a Craftsman bungalow, but I'm adding a number of Craftsman details to my existing NW cabin style house. Over the years I have collected numerous books full of photographs of various bungalows but I have sold all of them now that I have this book. This one book contains information on nearly every exterior detail you are likely to need, and is lavishly illustrated with photographs and drawings. It's an excellent reference for buffs and restorers. I have already pre-ordered the next volume which will cover interiors. Shame I have to wait 6 months!

Bungalow exteriors gives great needed detail
This book became and instant reference for our home project and I have quite a few in my collection.If you are looking for good examples to put the finishing touches on a bungalow or arts and crafts project, Ilike this one! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Arts and crafts movement    3. Bungalows    4. Details    5. Domestic    6. History - Specific Styles    7. Interior Design - General    8. North America    9. House & Home / General    10. Houses, apartments, flats, etc    11. Interior design   

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My new decorating bible
I adore this book. I found a copy of it mysteriously in my office (I'm a set dresser) and it has completely overhauled my beliefs in decorating. The pictures are feasts for your eyes... There's just so much to look at, all layered so perfectly. I can't wait to create my own lofted bed, my own hooshes, and mysteriously curtained nooks. I feel like I finally fit into a design catagory.
Close-to-realistic decorating
I have mixed feelings about this book, despite the 5 stars. I don't actually like clutter myself. I take its presence as a sign that somebody needs to tidy up and/or throw a few things out.
Not for the faint of heart
Upfront here:If you're the sort who likes to have your space organized, if you dislike the shabby, the thrift store look, the impression of disrepair, do not bother with this book.Purcell leans heavily on the idea that interior fantasy is built up of layers of eccentric, aged, lived-in objects and artifacts, and the result, while remarkable, is not going to be to everyone's taste.Read more

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Subjects:  1. Architectural Design    2. Architecture    3. Business/Economics    4. Design & Drafting    5. General    6. Interior Design - General    7. Management - General    8. Office layout    9. Space And Enclosure Design    10. Architecture / General    11. Design styles: from c 1900 -    12. Interior design    13. Office & workplace    14. Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc   

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Inside the Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Interior
Great source for anyone who is considering doing and architectural project, either interior or exterior, with an Arts and Crafts feeling.

Beautiful photographs of interiors
This book contains big color photographs of interiors; reference guide at the end of the book detailing resources of Arts and Crafts literature and furnishings

Friendly Resource
This is auser friendly book to have close at hand. If you're like me I am always looking at ways to incorporate colors, designs and arts and crafts style into our 1922 Chalet Arts and Craft's home.I especially appreciate all the colorful pictures and the textiles shown. Paint, stenciling and wallcoverings being modest in cost and are realistic changes that are indeed affordable. Lots of ideas and examples to pull a room together. I refer to the book frequently and I am pleased I bought it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Arts and crafts movement    3. Bungalows    4. Domestic    5. History - Specific Styles    6. House furnishings    7. Interior Design - Style Books    8. Interior design    9. Residential Buildings Architecture    10. Residential Interior Design    11. United States    12. Crafts & Hobbies / Decorating    13. Home furnishing & decoration    14. Residential buildings, domestic buildings   

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The Average Size Home Doesn't Have to Be Average
Note that smaller in this book doesn't mean the really tiny homes that have been featured in a number of books lately. What Mr. Sater means by smaller is homes that are around the size of the national average, say 2,500 square feet or less.
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Subjects:  1. Architectural design    2. Architecture    3. Design & Drafting    4. Domestic    5. House Plans    6. Interior Design - General    7. Residential Buildings Architecture    8. Residential Interior Design    9. Small houses    10. United States    11. Architecture / General    12. Houses, apartments, flats, etc