Young House Love
Young House Love

Author: Sherry Petersik

Publisher: Artisan

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1579656765

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This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Williamsburg Before and After
Williamsburg Before and After

Author: George Humphrey Yetter

Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780879350772

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George Yetter's informative text describes why Williamsburg was founded and flourished during the colonial period. He traces the deterioration that followed when the capital moved to Richmond in 1780, and concludes with the exciting story of how Williamsburg's past was saved. Old photographs, daguerreotypes, watercolors, sketches, and maps capture "pre-restoration" Williamsburg. Lovely color "after" photographs show that the vision and dream have been fulfilled.

Colonial Homes Classic American Decorating
Colonial Homes Classic American Decorating

Author: Rosemary G. Rennicke

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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A guide to classic colonial style for the modern home covers fabric, furniture, and finishing touches and features photographs of examples of colonial decorating.

Colonial Revival Maine
Colonial Revival Maine

Author: Kevin Murphy

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2004-05

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781568984490

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Colonial Revival Maine provides an account of how this interest in the classical influences of colonial- and federal-era buildings engaged the imagination of a group of architects and their draftsmen in the late nineteenth century. Together, these designers created the charming streetscapes and bucolic retreats that today dot the Maine coast."

Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783
Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783

Author: Hoke P. Kimball

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 0786470518

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This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.

American Home
American Home

Author: Michael Webb

Publisher: Universe Pub

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0789306239

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Includes Millford Plantation and Drayton Hall as well as Mount Vernon and Monticello.