Interior Design 101: A Beginner's Guide to Transforming Your Home
Interior Design 101: A Beginner's Guide to Transforming Your Home

Author: Barbara Moreau

Publisher: Barbara Moreau

Published: 2023-05-13

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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Interior Design 101: A Beginner's Guide to Transforming Your Home" is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to enhance their living spaces with style and flair. This comprehensive book, spanning 60 pages, serves as a practical and insightful guide to help readers embark on their interior design journey with confidence. From the very first chapter, readers will be introduced to the fundamental principles of interior design. Throughout the pages of "Interior Design 101," readers will find a wealth of inspiring visuals, practical tips, and step-by-step guides to assist them in transforming their homes. They will learn how to assess their existing space, create mood boards, and develop a personalized design plan that reflects their unique taste and lifestyle. The book covers a range of essential topics, including space optimization, creating focal points, and incorporating textures and patterns effectively. It also explores the power of lighting and how it can be used to set the right ambiance in each room. Furthermore, readers will discover valuable insights on budgeting, sourcing materials, and working with contractors or professionals to bring their design vision to life. Whether readers are embarking on their first home design project or seeking to refresh their existing spaces, this beginner's guide is an invaluable tool. With its accessible language, comprehensive content, and practical examples, "Interior Design 101" empowers readers to transform their homes into stunning havens of beauty and functionality.

Flip! for Decorating
Flip! for Decorating

Author: Elizabeth Mayhew

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0345507517

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In this fresh, fun, and unique book, design consultant and Today show lifestyle expert Elizabeth Mayhew shares essential insider tips for making any space stylish and timeless in a snap. Forget expensive fixes or labor-intensive endeavors, Flip! for Decorating can show you how to redecorate with what you have on hand, or with the simple purchases you’ll need to create the room of your dreams. Flip through the upper right hand pages, and watch four rooms receive an instant makeover! Inside you’ll discover: • step-by-step instructions for decorating the four most commonly used rooms: living room, dining room, family room, and bedroom • the fundamentals of color, including no-fail wall and trim colors, when to use wallpaper instead of paint, and the facts on different paint finishes • the ways to treat a window, from Venetian blinds and Roman shades to simple curtains–and the secrets to making a window appear taller or wider • the art of picking the perfect sofa, chairs, tables, and lighting • strategies on how to prioritize your decorating decisions Flip! for Decorating also features time-saving “reality checks,” handy shopping tips, and easy and informative sidebars that will give you instant solutions if you’re stumped, stymied, or need to add a quick jolt of style to virtually any room in your home. With this amazing, practical book, decorating is so easy you’ll flip!

Interior Design Visual Presentation
Interior Design Visual Presentation

Author: Maureen Mitton

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-04-27

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0471624071

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The new, updated edition of the successful book on interior design Interior Design Visual Presentation, Second Edition is fully revised to include the latest material on CAD, digital portfolios, resume preparation, and Web page design. It remains the only comprehensive guide to address the visual design and presentation needs of the interior designer, with coverage of design graphics, models, and presentation techniques in one complete volume. Approaches to the planning, layout, and design of interior spaces are presented through highly visual, step-by-step instructions, supplemented with more than forty pages of full-color illustrations, exercises at the end of each chapter, and dozens of new projects. With the serious designer in mind, it includes a diverse range of sample work, from student designers as well as well-known design firms such as Ellerbee and Beckett Architects and MS Architects.

You Grow, Gurl!
You Grow, Gurl!

Author: Christopher Griffin

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2022-03-29

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0063077051

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Discover the joys and self-nurturing benefits of plant parenthood, from learning how to begin building your own lush plant family to getting into those fun tips on how to care for your green gurls, with this beautiful, illustrated guide from the dazzling creator of the @plantkween Instagram account. “We all love some new growth, dahling.” Six years ago, Christopher Griffin was just beginning the plant parenthood journey with one small Marble Queen Pothos. Today, this Black Queer non-binary femme plant influencer known as Plant Kween tends to a family of more than 200 healthy green gurls in the Brooklyn apartment they call home. You Grow, Gurl! is Kween’s fun and fabulous guide to becoming a plant parent and keeping your green gurls growing and thriving. Anyone can be a plant parent! It’s all about TLC—taking the time and energy to focus on a plant’s needs, and ultimately your own. Featuring 200 full-color photos and illustrations, practical instructions and tips—on everything from propagating to measuring humidity to repotting—activities, and stories, this fun and joyful guide shows how to green-up any space and have it serving those lush lewks. Self-care takes many forms and tending to your plants’ needs helps you grow too. In addition to information and advice on plant care, Kween provides meditations, mindfulness activities, playlists, and more to help you practice self-care through plant-care. As Kween says, “We can learn a lot about how we treat ourselves, how we treat others, and how we navigate the world from these green lil creatures.” Healing and growing your heart, body, and soul takes time, love, and focus. Taking care of plants teaches you to apply that same attention and love to yourself and helps you find new pathways to explore on your own botanical adventure to self-love.

The Inspired Houseplant
The Inspired Houseplant

Author: Jen Stearns

Publisher: Sasquatch Books

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1632171783

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The ultimate indoor gardening book, this guide offers inspiration and instruction for creating vibrant in-home gardens and caring for your houseplants With plentiful images and a distinctly modern and sophisticated feel, this book imparts both easy-to-follow advice and creative garden-design inspiration. Whether you are looking to pick a statement plant for your living room, create a terrarium centerpiece, or arrange an artful display of air plants, this book will provide the tools you need. You'll be tempted to thumb through it again and again—for both resource and relaxation. The Inspired Houseplant includes: • Plant Basics: beginner-friendly plant care info • Plant Guide: profiles of popular indoor plants • Plant Projects: fun, easy projects with major wow factor (including trending designs like terrariums, air plants, marimo and other underwater gardens, kokedama, mounted staghorn ferns, and edible herbs) • Plant Style: ways to use plants in interior design for every style from Desert Boho to Midcentury Modern

The SKETCH
The SKETCH

Author: Olga Sorokina

Publisher:

Published: 2016-11-02

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781539884637

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Meet this very actionable and fun book that, if you would work with, will definitely change your interior design project presentation and, possibly, even your whole creative life. This book is written particularly for interior designers and interior design students who are new to freehand sketching and want to master an amazing skill for better performance on the interior design scene.Here you will find a lot of tools, tips and tricks for freehand sketching. Richly illustrated this book can serve as a source of great inspiration, and for some of you it is going to become a desk book.

Furniture Makeovers
Furniture Makeovers

Author: Barb Blair

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1452124191

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Transform tired furniture into stunning showpieces: “A fabulous how-to volume for everything from sanding to decoupage and beyond.” —The City Sage blog You’ll never look at a hand-me-down dresser the same way again! This book offers twenty-six easy-to-follow techniques that can be applied to all different types of pieces, from bookshelves to desks: painting, applying gold leaf, wallpapering, distressing, dip dyeing, and more. In addition to the core techniques, author and Knack Studios founder Barb Blair shares thirty beautiful before-and-after makeovers from her studio and outlines how to achieve each look. With helpful step-by-step photographs, a visual glossary explaining all the tools and materials needed, and a lovely contemporary aesthetic, Furniture Makeovers is a treasure trove of ideas and instruction for the home decorator. “Her amply illustrated book shows why her repurposed furniture is in demand.” —Publishers Weekly

The Inspired Home
The Inspired Home

Author: Karen Lehrman Bloch

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2013-09-10

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 0062126636

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The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty opens the door to twenty-five of the most beautiful homes in the world—ones owned by top interior designers, fashion designers, artists, and stylists—to reveal how simple principles borrowed from nature can inspire gorgeous, innovative interiors that both calm and embolden us. To create this unique volume, Karen Lehrman Bloch interviewed renowned aesthetes with homes all over the world, including interior designers Juan Montoya, Darryl Carter, and Vicente Wolf; fashion designers Donna Karan, Alberta Ferretti, and Consuelo Castiglioni; stylist Lori Goldstein; and artist Michele Oka Doner. The direct and practical advice featured inside, along with a wealth of extraordinary photographs of the homes, teaches us how to feel visually, understand color and texture, and find objects, new and used, with a sense of life. An inspired home, Bloch reveals, fulfills our physical and spiritual needs, provides an enduring sense of rejuvenation and pleasure, and is both easily attainable and timeless.

The Interior Design Course
The Interior Design Course

Author: Tomris Tangaz

Publisher:

Published: 2018-09-06

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780500294475

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Whether you are keen to develop your interest in interior design and build your skills, or to pursue a career and begin a portfolio, then this book is for you. Specifically designed to cover all aspects of interior design, this intensive course introduces the practice of basic design principles through set projects. Inspiration and imagination are the first key steps to starting your study. Whatever your background, this course will encourage your individual creativity and help you to explore and further your own design ideas.

Interior Design
Interior Design

Author: Karen Mitchell

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-03-11

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781508823544

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Do You Want To Know How To Decorate On A Budget? Are you looking for the best ways to design your home? Do you want to decorate your home but don't want to spend a lot of money? Inside we give you the best colors and layouts to use for any apartment or house layout. After reading this book you will know how to maximize your space visually and apply these professional techniques inexpensively.