Interior Decorating & Interior Design
Books and DVD's About Interior Decorating, Interior Design and Decorating Homes in Unique Ways

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Interior Decorating

Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors: Basic Skills - 2nd Edition
The Text of Choice for Professional Interior Design Practice
Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors serves as the essential reference for designers preparing interior construction documents, explaining how to do a new construction, remodeling, or installation project. In a highly visual format, the book covers drafting fundamentals and conventions; drawing types, plans, and schedules; and computer-aided design (CAD). With expanded coverage of the preparation and communication of construction documents in digital formats, drawing interior perspectives, and more, the text also serves as an invaluable study reference for the contract documents section of the NCIDQ exam. A new companion Web Site supplies template grids for schedules and contract documents for practice exercises.

Country Living - 750 Great Ideas for Decorating on a Budget
Transform Your Home Inside & Out Inexpensively
Country Living-- the authority on transforming a home into a tasteful, comfortable refuge--offers simple but lovely decorating ideas that are well within the reach of every budget. More than 400 breathtaking photographs present a wealth of inexpensive ways to bring style and charm to every room in the house--and outdoor spaces, as well. You'll learn chic and clever ways to decorate for festive occasions, as well as how to refurbish favorite old treasures and maintain an energy-efficient home. There are even some do-it-yourself projects, including tea-dyed linens and wreaths.

Creating A New Old House
Yesterday's Character For Today's New Homes
Here is the best of both worlds: New houses with old world sensibilities. In Creating a New Old House, architect Russell Versaci shows you that it is possible to design and create a new house that looks and feels like it has always been there. Versaci explores how architects, builders, and craftsmen are reinterpreting the traditional American house. Through photographs and engaging text, discussions of history and craftsmanship, and sidelong glances at the workings of real old houses, Versaci explains how traditional houses go together and what gives them their unique design appeal.

Decorating Idea Book
Find Your Own Personal Decorating Style Without Spending A Lot of Money
Creativity doesn't have a price tag, which you'll find proven -- time and time again -- within the pages of this book. Its filled with information and inspiration, taking you step-by-step through the decorating process, from finding your personal style to selecting the right accessories. Decorating is an evolution, a never-ending process. Styles change. Tastes change. Even families change. Through it all, you'll want to keep this book close at hand, guiding you along the way.

Decorating Ideas That Work
Creative Design Solutions for Decorating Your Home
Whether you're interested in a subtle freshen-up or radical re-do, the road to success starts with Decorating Ideas That Work. With nearly 500 photos to jump-start your creativity and practical advice for turning ideas into reality, this incomparable sourcebook makes the process of decorating as rewarding as the results. From advice on walls, storage, and furniture to tips for color, fabric, and lighting, Decorating Ideas That Work will help you transform your home -- whatever your taste, lifestyle, or budget. Get inspired, get motivated, get decorating with ideas that work!

Decoración del Hogar: Pinturas y Papel Tapiz (Spanish)
"Decorating with Paint & Wallcovering" is a new Spanish language book that takes readers, step-by-step, through a variety of decorating projects. Get expert advice on everything from what materials and tools you'll need to design help. This book is beautifully illustrated with detailed, full-color photos showing the key aspects of each project. Soft-cover, 128 pages

Designing Commercial Interiors - 2nd Edition
The Definitive Reference on Designing Commercial Interiors - Expanded and Updated for Today's Facilities
Following the success of the ASID/Polsky Prize Honorable Mention in 1999, authors Christine Piotrowski and Elizabeth Rogers have extensively revised this guide to planning and designing commercial interiors to help professionals and design students successfully address today's trends and project requirements. This comprehensive reference covers the practical and aesthetic issues that distinguish commercial interiors. There is new information on sustainable design, security, and accessibility-three areas of increased emphasis in modern interiors.

Good House Parts
Creating A Great Home Piece By Piece
A good home is the result of good house parts -- a certain window, a special door, a punched dormer, a romantic overlook -- that are put together based on a homeowners personal vision. This is the thinking that makes Good House Parts required reading for anyone who imagines living in the "perfect" home one day. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience as a nationally know author and residential architect, Dennis Wedlick gives you what you need to make a distinction between the whole house and its unique components. He identifies hundreds of examples of quality house parts -- from doors and windows to columns and fireplaces. You learn how to choose elements that are perfectly suited to your particular lifestyle. Filled with ideas that transform a house, Good House Parts is the first book to present these parts as the building blocks for great design.

Graphic Guide to Interior Details
A standard reference for residential framing details
This essential reference helps readers choose and install floors, walls, ceilings, cabinets, countertops, trim and stairs. Just as Rob Thallon's Graphic Guide to Frame Construction is the standard for residential frame construction details, this carefully researched volume is the authoritative guide to interior construction details. A must-have for the libraries of designers, builders, architects and anyone involved in residential construction or remodeling.

Home Decorating For Dummies
Create Picture Perfect Rooms With Better Functioning Spaces for Working, Playing and Living
Do you long to create picture-perfect rooms but can’t quite seem to achieve them? Do you want better functioning spaces for working, playing, or living? Do you clamor to express your personal style? If you said “yes” to any of these questions, you’ve turned to the right source for real answers from the pros.

House Transformed
Get The Home You Want With The House You Have
Creativity doesn't have a price tag, which you'll find proven -- time and time again -- within the pages of this book. Its filled with information and inspiration, taking you step-by-step through the decorating process, from finding your personal style to selecting the right accessories. Decorating is an evolution, a never-ending process. Styles change. Tastes change. Even families change. Through it all, you'll want to keep this book close at hand, guiding you along the way.

Interior Graphic Standards
The Most Complete and Authoritative Professional Reference on Interior Construction Available
The interior construction of a building includes everything inside of the structural shell from interior partitions and floor systems to wall covering and carpeting. With over 3000 illustrations, this book is the most complete and authoritative professional reference on interior construction available and is the definitive interior design reference that the industry has been waiting for.
Also Available>> Interior Graphic Standards on CD-ROM

Lighting Design Basics
Provides Interior Design Information Related to Lighting Design and Lighting Techniques
Lighting is a basic, yet difficult-to-master, element of interior design, and Lighting Design Basics provides the information you need in a concise, highly visual format. Two leading designers, both with decades of experience, offer straightforward coverage of concepts and techniques, and present realistic goals you can use as guides to creating simple, typical lighting designs and when collaborating with professional designers on more complex projects.

Lighting Solutions
Quick and Easy Lighting Projects to Brighten Up Your Home
From installing a dimmer switch and under-cabinet kitchen lights to lighting a home office and brightening your dining room with a new chandelier, Do it Now Lighting Solutions has everything you need to complete lighting projects all over the house. You can successfully complete lighting projects with readily-available tools thanks to clear wiring diagrams and complete step-by-step instructions. All projects can be completed in 1-3 days.

Paint Transformations
Quick and Easy Paint Projects You can Do Yourself
Change the mood, express your sense of style, create beautiful decorative effects and complete other paint makeover projects. Paint Transformations features high-impact paint projects for every room in your home. More than 300 step-by-step photos help you to quickly and dramatically change the look of a room with a can of paint and a few basic tools.. All projects can be completed in 1-3 days.

Professional Practice for Interior Designers
The Text of Choice for Professional Interior Design Practice - with Companion CD-ROM
The text of choice for professional interior design practice -- now with companion CD-ROM! Since publication of the first edition in 1990, Professional Practice for Interior Designers has remained the leading choice for educators for teaching interior design business practice as well as for professionals seeking to advance in their own practices. This ASID/Polsky Prize winner is recommended by the NCIDQ for exam preparation and covers the gamut of legal, financial, management, marketing, administrative, and ethical issues. You gain all the essential skills needed for planning and maintaining a thriving interior design business, presented in the clear, easy-to-follow style that is the hallmark of this text.

Trim Carpentry - Build Like A Pro Series
Learn The Experts Secrets for Trim Carpentry
Learn how to get tight miters and crisp details when casing doors and windows, running baseboard, and putting up crown molding. Trim Carpentry and Built-Ins shows you how to get professional results with all of your common trim projects. Detailed instructions with hundreds of photos and drawings can help you overcome challenges like out-of-square walls, floors, and ceilings. You'll also learn how to design and build custom built-in bookcases and cabinets to enhance any room in the house.

Trim Complete
Trim Complete delivers all the information you'll need to handle all kinds of trim and molding projects like a pro
With detailed instructions and over 800 step-by-step photos, expert carpenter Greg Kossow shows you how to complete every possible trim project, from simple baseboards to complicated casings. He even includes hard-to-find advice about complex crown moldings and creating custom moldings.

Trim Transformations
Quick and Easy Trim and Moulding Projects You can Do Yourself
This stylish, fresh approach to home improvement provides just the right combination of design inspiration and how-to information to enable you to express your own sense of style and get pro-level results every time. Expert advice and step-by-step photos will help you transform your home with a wide range of trim and molding applications. All projects can be completed in 1-3 days.

Window Treatments & Slipcovers For Dummies
Jazz Up Your Window Treatments and Slipcovers with this Step-By-Step Guide
Create a stunning room with dozens of step-by-step projects. Want to ditch your drab drapes and so-so slipcovers and create a style that's uniquely your own? Top designer Mark Montano reveals how easy it is to jazz up your windows and furniture — without breaking the bank! You get expert tips on everything from measuring and cutting material to accessorizing, as well as savvy shortcuts and quick fixes.

Window Treatments Idea Book
Update The Look of Your Home's Windows with Hundreds of Fresh Window Treatments
Doing what no other window treatment book has done before, Window Treatments Idea Book offers hundreds of the latest ideas from hands-on experts for decorating windows of every type, including bays, bows, and unusual shapes. It also provides quick-and-easy style ideas and professional advice for modifying and embellishing off-the-shelf curtains and drapes. Whether you want to update your homes style or find fresh ideas for a new home, this book will give you the inspiration you need to get the look you're after.

Wood Finishing Basics - DVD
Surface prep, wipe-on and spray finishing, and a visit with a finishing expert
In this DVD, finishing expert Michael Dresdner shows you what you need to know to become a proficient wood finisher, starting with classic surface-prep problems and their solutions -- how to recognize and remove dents, how to recognize and fill gouges, how to pre-raise wood grain to get the best results under waterborne finishes, and, most important, how to sand wood.

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