Design Directory of Bedding, The

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The Design Directory of Bedding is the must-have resource for designers, workroom professionals, and do-it-yourselfers. Concise, straight-to-the-point lists, definitions, and descriptions of design fundamentals and components provide a comprehensive education on bedding design. Hundreds of inspirational ideas and patterns Expertly illustrated with 1,000 renderings that can be used repeatedly. Companion CD-ROM includes black-and-white line drawings of the il... More >>

Design Directory of Bedding, The

Home Tree Home: Principles of Treehouse Construction and Other Tall Tales

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Peter Nelson, the nation's foremost authority on treehouses, and writer Gerry Hadden join forces to tell readers everything they need to know about designing and building the treehouse that's right for every individual or family. Step-by-step instructions for a children's playhouse, a vacation home, an office, and a full-time residence are included. of color photos.... More >>

Home Tree Home: Principles of Treehouse Construction and Other Tall Tales

Five Hundred Buildings of Paris

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Five hundred stunning duotone photographs showcase the finest, most majestic, and interesting examples of architecture in one of the world's most beloved cities

The greatest buildings, monuments, and structures of Paris come to life in these inspiring, neighborhood-by-neighborhood photographic tours. Each building is featured in a rich, fine-resolution duotone photograph. Information including the building's name, its address and location, and year of complet... More >>

Five Hundred Buildings of Paris

Interiors: An Introduction

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Interiors: An Introduction is the starting point for a lifetime of design education, appreciation, and enjoyment. Whether the goal is a career in interior design, or simply a better understanding of how to enhance one's own living space, the information and ideas in this text will help readers achieve it. Interiors offers an introduction to the elements, practice, and aesthetics of residential and nonresidential interior design, as well as their appli... More >>

Interiors: An Introduction

Print Reading for Construction: Residential and Commercial, Instructors Guide

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Print Reading for Construction is designed to assist students in reading and understanding residential and commercial prints. This practical text is suitable for vocational students, apprentices, and building trades workers who want to increase their knowledge of print reading and construction drawings. The combination text and workbook presents a thorough discussion of print reading techniques, starting with the basics of print reading and progressing to advanced t... More >>

Print Reading for Construction: Residential and Commercial, Instructors Guide

Landscape Architecture: Planting Design Illustrated

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Absolutely fascinating! Informative, enlightening, and entertaining! This is one of the most comprehensive books on Planting Design. It fills in the blanks in this field and introduces poetry, painting, and symbolism into Planting Design. It covers in detail the two major systems in Planting Design: Formal Planting Design and Naturalistic Planting Design. It has numerous line drawings and photos to illustrate the Planting Design concepts and principles. Through i... More >>

Landscape Architecture: Planting Design Illustrated

Plumbing 1-2-3

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Install, upgrade, repair, and maintain your home's plumbing system with more than 90 projects found in The Home Depot's (R) Plumbing 1-2-3, published by Meredith (R) Books.... More >>

Plumbing 1-2-3

Mill

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The mills at Wicksbridge are imaginary, but their planning, construction, and operation are quite typical of mills developed in New England throughout the nineteenth century.Amazon.com Review
In Mill, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, David Macaulay pays tribute to the historically important mills of 19th-century New England. Using close-up pen-and-ink illustrations, Macaulay thoroughly explains the Yankee ingenuity that went into the ela... More >>

Mill

200 Outstanding House Ideas

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A handsome and practical source of inspiration for designing, building or remodeling. There are thousands of new styles and components in house construction. Homeowners enjoy an unprecedented number of options thanks to the availability of products originating in other modes of architecture. While these are certainly exciting, such a wide variety brings challenging choices at every step in project management. 200 Outstanding House Ideas is pack... More >>

200 Outstanding House Ideas

Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture: How to Build Your Own

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How to build, step by step, an adobe and ceramic architecture that is affordable and self-help. How to build arches, vaults, domes, and utilize the natural energy of wind, sun-and-shade to help save forests and create a sustainable architecture. How to fire and glaze an entire building after it is constructed from clay-earth on site. A NEW UPDATE CHAPTER introducing the Superadobe technology, building with almost any on-site soil using sandbags and barbed wire.... More >>

Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture: How to Build Your Own

The Complete Photo Guide to Slipcovers: Transform Your Furniture with Fitted or Casual Covers

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Step-by-step, fully photographed projects for all styles of furniture slipcovers, from the simple wrap to a custom-fitted cover.The Complete Photo Guide to Slipcovers is a step-by-step guide to sewing decorator covers for upholstered chairs, sofas, ottomans, and dining chairs. The projects range from quick wraps to fitted slipcovers that stay firmly in place and create a new piece of furniture. Over 250 how-to photographs show the way to professional quality. Every ... More >>

The Complete Photo Guide to Slipcovers: Transform Your Furniture with Fitted or Casual Covers

Site Planning and Design: ARE Sample Problems and Practice Exam

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Successfully Prepare for the Site Planning & Design Division of the ARE

Get the realistic problem-solving practice you need to pass the Site Planning & Design division of the ARE with Site Planning & Design: ARE Sample Problems and Practice Exam.

63 challenging sample problems are presented in the same formats as the problems on the exam, including multiple choice, check all that apply, and fill in the blank. Two sample vignettes in Site Des... More >>

Site Planning and Design: ARE Sample Problems and Practice Exam

Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses from Santa Barbara to San Clemente

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The Spanish-style architecture of Southern California's seaside estates, canyon villas, and courtyard bungalows is central to its romantic image, one that has traditionally evoked a Mediterranean paradise. The details of this inexhaustively rich style-- ornate wrought iron and wood balconies, colorful tiles, graceful arches, and palm-dotted gardens-- reflect the region's Spanish, Mexican, and southwestern history and culture as well as its popular outdoor lifestyle.... More >>

Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses from Santa Barbara to San Clemente

Chatsworth: The House

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Chatsworth is one of England's ten most visited great houses. In this tour of the house, Deborah the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire takes the reader into the private as well as the public rooms, and goes behind the scenes to explain the management of the household and the work of the staff needed to keep it going. ... More >>

Chatsworth: The House

Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House Revised & Updated

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Since its founding in 1976, the non-profit Habitat for Humanity International has built more than 255,000 houses for more than one million people and families in need world wide. First published in 2002, "Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House "has helped thousands more build simple, energy-efficient homes of their own by helping guide them from foundation to roof, through all interior finishes and fixtures. Written by long-time carpenter and Habitat volunteer, L... More >>

Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House Revised & Updated

Inside Out: A Visual Tour of Outdoor Kitchens, Garden Living Rooms, and More

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As the popularity of outdoor living spaces has grown, they have become versatile extensions of the most used interior spaces. Homeowners and designers have joined forces to create outdoor settings as comfortable and practical as interior spaces.   Inside Out focuses on furniture and other traditionally indoor features such as fully equipped kitchens, fireplaces, and speaker systems. These new amenities provide all that is necessary for delightful moments at home—... More >>

Inside Out: A Visual Tour of Outdoor Kitchens, Garden Living Rooms, and More

Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

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For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back-or give way under-thousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper or a kangaroo, this book will ease your anxiety and answer your questions. J. E. Gordon strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, communicating its founding principles in accessible, witty prose.... More >>

Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

Mastering AutoCAD for Mac

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The Best Resource on the Market for Learning AutoCAD for Mac software!This comprehensive Autodesk Official Training Guide has everything you need to quickly become proficient with every aspect of Autodesk’s new AutoCAD for Mac software. Award-winning author George Omura, whom most CAD designers know and respect from his all-time bestselling Mastering AutoCAD books, now applies his legendary AutoCAD expertise, approachable style, and thorough Mastering cover... More >>

Mastering AutoCAD for Mac

Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture

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Public Produce makes a uniquely contemporary case not for central government intervention, but for local government involvement in shaping food policy. In what Darrin Nordahl calls “municipal agriculture,” elected officials, municipal planners, local policymakers, and public space designers are turning to the abundance of land under public control (parks, plazas, streets, city squares, parking lots, as well as the grounds around libraries, schools, government off... More >>

Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture

Inspirations from France & Italy

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In this luxurious new book, best-selling author and acclaimed interior designer Betty Lou Phillips presents fresh and inspiring design ideas from France, Italy, England, Portugal, and beyond, bringing old-world artistry to uptown European glamour. With a chic blend that is traditional yet edgy-and perfect for today's choice-driven design aesthetic-Phillips' eighth book caters to sophisticated and wide-ranging tastes, bringing home the warmth of the Tuscan countrysid... More >>

Inspirations from France & Italy

Glamorous Rooms

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Glamorous Rooms showcases the elegant eclecticism of renowned designer Jan Showers's interiors, including many projects unpublished until now. Illustrated with dazzling photography, Showers's accessible and useful design tenets will inspire readers to create their own luxurious yet relaxed homes. Showers's attention to detail seamlessly blends Hollywood high style, midcentury modernism, and classic 18th-century French styles with the local flavors of St. Barth's, P... More >>

Glamorous Rooms

Lautner, 1911-1994: Disappearing Space

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American architect, John Lautner (1911-1994) is responsible for some of the most original buildings of the space age and, indeed, the 20th century. The residences he designed in the Los Angeles area, including the Chemosphere House and the Silvertop, are synonymous with the hopes and dreams of an entire era. Characterized by sweeping rooflines, glass-paneled walls, and steel beams, his buildings displayed a combination of fantasy and minimalism, often integrating wa... More >>

Lautner, 1911-1994: Disappearing Space

Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction Guide for All Climates

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Bergeron and Lacinski's new book Serious Straw Bale is the first to look carefully at the specific design considerations critical to success with a straw bale building in more extreme climates-where seasonal changes in temperature, precipitation, and humidity create special stresses that builders must understand and address. The authors draw upon years of experience with natural materials and experimental techniques, and present a compelling rationale for building w... More >>

Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction Guide for All Climates

Interior Design Reference Manual: Everything You Need to Know to Pass the NCIDQ Exam

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Successful exam preparation requires the best resources, and the Interior Design Reference Manual offers the most complete preparation available for all three sections of the NCIDQ exam. This thorough preparation has enabled thousands of candidates to pass their exams. In this fifth edition, exam content areas are covered chapter by chapter in the same order as the current NCIDQ exam specifications. Topics new to the exam have been added, and the sections on s... More >>

Interior Design Reference Manual: Everything You Need to Know to Pass the NCIDQ Exam

Construction Documents & Services: ARE Sample Problems and Practice Exam

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Get the realistic practice you need to successfully prepare for the Construction Documents & Services division of the Architect Registration Examination (ARE) with Construction Documents & Services: ARE Sample Problems and Practice Exam. Sharpen your problem-solving skills, increase your problem-solving speed and confidence, and assess essential knowledge. Build your problem-solving speed and confidence 128 challenging sample problems in the same format... More >>

Construction Documents & Services: ARE Sample Problems and Practice Exam

Great Public Squares: An Architect's Selection

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Forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world, analyzed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison.From the storied piazzas of Rome, Venice, and Florence to the elegant places of Paris via less familiar gathering places in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain, and Portugal, to the former marketplaces and graceful Georgian-style squares of the United Kingdom, to the most interesting and impressive squares of the New World—Santa Fe, Portlan... More >>

Great Public Squares: An Architect's Selection

My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living

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My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living offers a window into the life and mind of an extraordinarily creative person who was once told by a pottery professor that he had no talent and should consider another career. Not only did Adler stick with pottery, he transformed it from a dreary, unappealing summer camp craft into a contemporary signifier of modern, handcrafted luxury and became America's first (and only) celebrity potter. Interior designer Bill Sofield ha... More >>

My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living

Coastal Style: Home Decorating Ideas Inspired by Seaside Living

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Coastal Style is a magnificent celebration of simple shoreside life. Featuring hundreds of fabulous photographs of homes around the world, it covers all aspects of decorative seaside style—from the creation of light and breezy rooms to the selection of simple furniture and furnishings that echo the natural beauty of the surf and sand. Also featured are tips on the best fabrics to use—from nautical stripes to cool cotton canvas—and advice on coastal colors, fro... More >>

Coastal Style: Home Decorating Ideas Inspired by Seaside Living

White

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"White" is not a book about colors. It is rather Kenya Haras attempt to explore the essence of "White", which he sees as being closely related to the origin of Japanese aesthetics – symbolizing simplicity and subtlety. The central concepts discussed by Kenya Hara in this publication are emptiness and the absolute void. Kenya Hara also sees his work as a designer as a form of communication. Good communication has the distinction of being able to listen to each ot... More >>

White

Porches and Sunrooms: Planning and Remodeling Ideas

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Porches and Sunrooms is the perfect reference tool for homeowners who are considering adding or renovating a porch, sunroom, or conservatory. Topics include planning and designing the "outdoor room" to bridge the indoors and outdoors, basic information on the room's structure, and details on what a homeowner should know to add it to the house. Readers will see real-life examples in hundreds of beautiful, full-color photographs, discovering what a difference a... More >>

Porches and Sunrooms: Planning and Remodeling Ideas

Haciendas: Spanish Colonial Houses in the U.S. and Mexico

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Haciendas features traditional and modern hacienda architecture in Mexico and southwestern United States. Sumptuous photography portrays the increasing fascination with hacienda architecture today, as evidenced by the movement to renovate classic adobe homes, the abundance of new hacienda designs, and the inspiration Spanish colonial architecture provides to homeowners, designers, and architects worldwide. The estate hacienda was traditionally the family home for Sp... More >>

Haciendas: Spanish Colonial Houses in the U.S. and Mexico

Pools & Spas, 2nd Edition

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Pools & Spas covers everything from pool selection and installation to landscaping. Includes choosing a pool site, hiring a contractor, and different pool and spa types. ... More >>

Pools & Spas, 2nd Edition

Japanese Gardens in a Weekend

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A complete step-by-step guide to building a range of oriental style features for the garden; Features are graded for construction over one, two, three or more weekends; Each feature provides check lists for what to buy and what tools are needed; Specially commissioned artworks and photographs; Written by a leading Japanese garden designer with over 25 years experience... More >>

Japanese Gardens in a Weekend

Lotta Jansdotter's Handmade Living: A Fresh Take on Scandinavian Style

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Beloved designer Lotta Jansdotter's smart, organic design has earned her international acclaim. Now she shares her recipe for a stylish home: take a whole lot of Scandinavian influence, mix in a dash of flea-market finds, and then top it all off with expressive handmade touches. The result? An entirely fresh approach to home d cor and contemporary living. In this lavishly illustrated book, Lotta shares her decorating secrets, design resources, entertaining tips, and... More >>

Lotta Jansdotter's Handmade Living: A Fresh Take on Scandinavian Style

Graphic Guide to Interior Details: For Builders and Designers

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You will find relevant information about virtually every material involved in interior construction-common and uncommon, residential and commercial-so you can compare key factors and make the best decisions for your projects.... More >>

Graphic Guide to Interior Details: For Builders and Designers

The Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies: Do-It-Yourself Window Treatments

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The only curtains book with the current styles and step-by-step, photographed instructions.The Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies makes it easy to choose and construct today's most popular window treatments. Color photographs present twenty styles in a variety of room settings, fabrics, trims, and decorative hardware, then show how to DIY. The projects include tailored, romantic, and contemporary curtains and formal draperies with all styles of pleats. T... More >>

The Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies: Do-It-Yourself Window Treatments

Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, Student Edition

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The new student edition of the definitive reference on landscape architecture

Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, Student Edition is a condensed treatment of the authoritative Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, Professional Edition. Designed to give students the critical information they require, this is an essential reference for anyone studying landscape architecture and design.

Formatted to meet the serious student's needs, the conten... More >>

Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, Student Edition

The Bird House Book: How To Build Fanciful Birdhouses and Feeders, from the Purely Practical to the Absolutely Outrageous

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Over 30 fabulous birdhouses and feeders: a log cabin, a country cottage, a '50s diner, a San Francisco row house, and many others. Full-color photos, detailed patterns, grids, and instructions, plus charts on hole size, perch height, and feeding--and tips on attracting and protecting preferred species. "Some of these projects look so good, you hardly want to put them outside. None of them are difficult to build."--Booklist. ... More >>

The Bird House Book: How To Build Fanciful Birdhouses and Feeders, from the Purely Practical to the Absolutely Outrageous

Architecture Now! Houses 2

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Cutting edge private dwellings

Beyond the fundamental notion of shelter, what defines a house? The broad-ranging selection of extraordinary dwellings in the Architecture Now! Houses series shows the concept to be infinitely malleable: one house seems to hover above the ground, another is embedded in it; some have stark minimal lines, others have tropical gardens; some are palatial, others monastic—all of them displaying remarkable stru... More >>

Architecture Now! Houses 2