The "Creative Home Design" series provides advice and inspiration for decorating and giving your home a new look. This title focuses on the hall and living room. The "Creative Home Design" series provides advice and inspiration for decorating and giving your home a new look. This title focuses on the hall and living room.
Think natural, loosen up, pare down, color in, and above all, live well! These are the key words of the new country living, and no home better exemplifies this wonderful philosophy than decorator Tricia Guild's Tuscan farmhouse. A tour around this warm and wonderful home is the centerpiece in a richly photographed look at what defines the best contemporary design. The first section, "A New Attitude," pinpoints the main features of this current approach. Then, the intimate glimpse into Guild's private world, as well as four other houses, spotlights her love of natural materials, her uncluttered arrangements, her loose approach to fabric, and bold use of color--as well as the inspiration she draws from the surrounding landscape. Rooms glow with brightness; her kitchen bursts with fresh produce; inside and out, tables are laid with embroidered cloths, jugs of garden flowers, vibrant mismatched plates, and delicious local foods. Finally, "Living and Entertaining" is an exhortation to fill your world with pleasure, and to bring exuberance not only to your décor and design, but to all you do. None of the ideas is expensive, and every one is innovative, easy, and life enhancing!
A small-format gift book for flower lovers. Tricia Guild presents original, romantic and unexpected ideas for arranging fresh flowers and foliage. The book forms part of the Country Companion series and is published alongside 'American Country Companion', 'Quilter's Country Companion' and 'Country Cook's Companion'.
This international guide to contemporary architectural fixtures and fittings is a sourcebook to the best products available for modern domestic interiors. More than 800 photographs are included to illustrate the fixtures, fittings and surface finishes for floors, doors, windows, stairs, walls, ceilings, heating, lighting, storage, kitchens and bathrooms.
All in color! Original, witty, and these designs bring new life to the art of flower arranging. 400 color photos show how an array of blooms, used naturally and spontaneously, are the loveliest, least expensive, and most renewable way to brighten any interior. Harmonize colors that have the same basic tones (such as yellow or orange), or boldly contrast striking magentas, pinks, and purples. Gleaming white arum lilies and tuberoses make a simple, strong display on their own, or they can tone down a more vibrant bunch. Use ferns and grasses; choose containers of glass, ceramic, or metalware that enhance flowers; and emphasize line, proportion, and scent. Whether you want a fragrant country garden in a basket or a centerpiece for a table, these arrangements will spruce up every room in the house! Trim 10 1/4 x 10.
