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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?
Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo's clients have lapsed (and she still has a three-month waiting list).
With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house "spark joy" (and which don't), this international best seller featuring Tokyo's newest lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home - and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.
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Recommended by Andra Zaharia, Annie Loves Covfefe, Benjamin Spall, and 3 others.
Andra Zaharia
I’ve gone through quite a few experiences brought on or shaped by what I’ve learned from books. … a more frivolous example is The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying. I read this one when moving apartments a few years ago and it made me throw or give away ⅓ of my stuff. The result: freeing up space, both physical and mental, and acquiring some home organizing skills that have stuck with me ever since. My home is tidier and my mind is clearer because of this book. [source]
Annie Loves Covfefe
@Benny29143790 @Thereal_ssteele Oh how I love Kondo cleaning. Her first book is fantastic too!! [source]
Benjamin Spall
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo … I started reading on vacation. I interviewed Marie for my own book and while the translation is somewhat quirky in places, her book is worth the hype. [source]
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Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness
Karen Rauch Carter and Jeff Fessler
4.8
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An essential and accessible guide to increasing happiness, improving your financial well-being, and bettering your health through the timeless Chinese art of feng shui.
Promising health, wealth, and happiness, feng shui offers endless appeal—at least in concept. Unfortunately, feng shui’s seemingly complicated methods are often difficult to learn and apply in a meaningful way. Fortunately, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life is written in plain and simple English for the modern Western reader. Revealing the ancient Chinese secrets that are as useful and necessary today as they have been for centuries, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life communicates how to:
· MEET “THE ONE” · FIND A DREAM JOB · EARN BETTER GRADES IN SCHOOL · ENJOY A BETTER SEX LIFE
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Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui
Karen Kingston
4.7
In this revised and updated edition of her classic, bestselling book, Karen Kingston draws on her wealth of experience as a clutter clearing, space-clearing, and feng shui practitioner to show you how to transform your life by letting go of clutter. Her unique approach lies in understanding that clutter is stuck energy that has far-reaching physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual effects. You'll be motivated to clutter clear as never before when you realize just how much your junk has been holding you back! You will learn:
- Why people keep clutter - How clutter causes stagnation in your life - How to clear clutter quickly and effectively - How to live clutter-free
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The Western Guide to Feng Shui--Room by Room
Terah Kathryn Collins
4.5
Filled with photographs, stories, and many practical Feng Shui "tricks of the trade," this book is packed with ideas and tools that you can easily apply to your life to increase your prosperity and improve your health, creativity, and overall happiness. Terah covers every room in great detail--including your living room, dining room, bedrooms and bathrooms, home office, kitchen, family room, and storage areas. She also explores the attitudinal and spiritual work--the inner Feng Shui--that complements and strengthens your outer Feng Shui enhancements. Includes a 16-page insert of color photos to emphasize the author's points.
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Creating Sacred Space With Feng Shui
Karen Kingston
4.5
Feng Shui is the ancient oriental art of enhancing and harmonizing the flow of energy in your surroundings. Over the last twenty years, Karen Kingston has pioneered the study of a specialized branch of Feng Shui called Space Clearing. In this fascinating and easy-to-follow guide she shows how you can use Space Clearing and other principles of Feng Shui to enhance the flow of energy in your home or workplace and so create happiness and abundance in every area of your life.
You will learn how to: Clear "stuck" energy and create sacred space Consecrate your home Create a clutter-free environment and simplify your life Safeguard yourself against electromagnetic and geopathic stress Place furniture, mirrors, wind chimes, and other Feng Shui enhancements to create balance and harmony
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Feng Shui Your Life
Jayme Barrett, Mary Steenburgen
4.5
Feng shui focuses on correct energy flow, yet, at its core, is simply about feeling good in your surroundings. Whether you prefer traditional, contemporary, or eclectic style, the feng shui principles in this book should complement the decor in every room.
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A Master Course in Feng-Shui
Eva Wong
4.4
This fully illustrated, comprehensive workbook is designed primarily for homeowners, renters, architects, and business owners who want to put feng-shui to practical personal use—to choose a home, build a house, select an office, or find a retail space. Real estate agents, interior designers, and architects will also find it useful as a reference manual. The text and exercises proceed in systematic fashion from basic principles to specific projects, covering the following lessons:
• Evaluating the landscape and external environment by using the techniques of the Landform School • Using the geomantic compass to chart patterns of energy within a building • Planning the usage of space • Matching occupants to a house • Deciding on the placement of furniture • Improving the feng-shui of a building with countermeasures, enhancers, and renovations • Building a new house • Choosing or designing an apartment, business suite, or retail space
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Feng Shui That Makes Sense: Easy Ways to Create a Home That FEELS as Good as It Looks
Cathleen McCandless
4.4
At last, a feng shui book that replaces nonsense with common sense! You don't need to be a professional designer or a feng shui expert in order to have a beautiful, comfortable home. Feng Shui That Makes Sense takes you step-by-step through the process of using feng shui principles to create a home that will please your eye, relax your body, inspire your mind, and lift your spirit. After reading this book, you will be able to:
Easily create a home of beauty, harmony, and comfort
Learn basic feng shui principles that work every time in every space
Improve the look and feel of any room in your home
Discover the origins of popular feng shui myths and misunderstandings
Enhance the areas of your home relating to Love, Money, Health, Family, more
Apply feng shui principles to your landscape and garden
Integrate nature and natural materials into your living space
Clear your home of unwanted energy
Create a home that nurtures, inspires you physically, mentally, spiritually
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The Feng Shui Bible: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Life, Home, Health, and Finances
Simon G. Brown
4.3
The idea behind feng shui is simple: to improve any aspect of your life, create the right atmosphere to support it. All the strands of this ancient practice come together in this intelligently organized, visual reference that emphasizes feng shui's practical benefits. Real life applications and examples enhance lucid explanations of the fundamental concepts: chi energy, yin and yang, the five elements, and eight trigrams. All the essential tools are laid out, too--everyday objects like mirrors, plants, and fountains that keep the energy flowing smoothly. A comprehensive directory shows how these principles can enhance relationships, finances, creativity, career, health, and spiritual connections.
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Sacred Space: Clearing and Enhancing the Energy of Your Home
Denise Linn
4.3
"Our homes are mirrors of ourselves. Through them we can interface with the universe." Everything in the universe is composed of constantly changing energy, including your home and its contents. This energy can profoundly influence your ability to be healthy, loving, creative and abundant. By clearing and enhancing this energy you can transform your home into a sanctuary which radiates positive energy in ever-expanding circles. In this fascinating and unusual book, Denise Linn shows you how you can dramatically change your life by changing the environment in your home or office. She combines information from her own Native American heritage with material she has personally collected from native traditions around the world to bring you practical, easy-to-use exercises for balancing the physical, emotional and spiritual energies in your home, including how to: * Diagnose and solve problems with stagnant home energies. * Use sacred sound, spirit smoke, mystic symbols and purifying fire for clearing home energy. * Discover the personal numerology of your home. * Use the ancient art of Feng Shui for the placement of objects in your home. * Call house angels and totems as home protectors. * Use rituals to rid your home of unwanted spirits. * Instantly uplift the energy in your home. Your home can resonate, sing and pulse with Light energy that can touch the lives of everyone around you. Your home can become Sacred Space.
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Feng Shui For Dummies
Kennedy, David
4.3
Take a look around you. What do you see? Whether or not you're aware of it, your environment profoundly affects your health, wealth, family life, relationships, and yes, even your destiny. Feng Shui (pronounced fung shway), which means wind water, is the ancient Chinese study of harmony and energy flow between you and your physical surroundings. You can enrich every aspect of your life by applying Feng Shui principles to your home (inside and out) and workplace (from window office to cubicle). Feng Shui For Dummies is for anyone who seeks a better life. This clearly written, concise, and easy-to-understand guide can help anyone to
Create harmony and happiness in your relationships Increase your prosperity Eliminate chronic patterns of failure, difficulty, and stress Energize your home or workplace Enjoy better health This book shows you how to feel and access the energy of your environment (it's easier than you may think!). Find out how your environment influences your life right now. Use the solutions in this book to overcome obstacles and enhance the positive. You'll be sure to feel the before-and-after differences.
Feng Shui For Dummies also covers the following topics and more:
The meaning and history of Feng Shui Making the most of the space in your home, both inside and outside Tapping into the power of the five elements Boosting your career Jazzing up your bedroom for increased health, energy, and romance Performing blessing ceremonies Cleansing and curing with meditation Within the past 10 years, Feng Shui has gained widespread popularity in the West. Today, more and more people from all walks of life are practicing Feng Shui and experiencing the positive benefits of auspicious placement. This book shows you everything you need to know to help improve the flow of harmony, creativity, and abundance in your life.
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Complete Illustrated Guide – Feng Shui
Lillian Too
4.3
This lavishly illustrated guide explains the principles and practice of Feng Shui in a comprehensive and practical way. Apply the secrets of Chinese wisdom and promote health, wealth and happiness.
In this authoritative, accessible and lavishly illustrated guide Feng Shui expert Lillian Too explains the principles and practice of living in harmony with your natural and man-made environment, and explains how, by making changes to your surroundings, you can foster good health, improve relationships and attract prosperity both at home and in business.
Beautifully illustrated and packed with information, this fantastic guide includes: – The principles and practice of Feng Shui – How to harness auspicious energy lines – Living in harmony with the earth – How Feng Shui can contribute to your health and happiness
‘Lillian Too’s Feng Shui is outstanding and spellbinding… the well matched marriage between theory and practice contributes to the comprehensiveness of the book… highly recommended’ Dr Leong Yin Ching, Professor of Education, University of Malaysia.
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Ralph Lauren A Way of Living: Home, Design, Inspiration
Ralph Lauren
4.3
A stunning celebration of Ralph Lauren’s signature home collections—including the designer’s own homes—which have inspired the world of interior design for nearly half a century.The cinematic vision of Ralph Lauren is brought to life with a stunning and intimately written book that spans decades of innovation and influence by the iconic American designer. Ralph Lauren: A Way of Living, published by Rizzoli New York, commemorates the 40th anniversary of the home collection with the first comprehensive volume dedicated to the signature style of Ralph Lauren and his pioneering lifestyle approach to design. From trailblazing innovations that revolutionized the home industry to conceptualizing residential retailing and perfecting the art of hospitality, Lauren has created a multifaceted world that evokes emotion and inspires a more beautiful way of life.This special volume presents a visual timeline of Ralph Lauren’s remarkable history as a lifestyle innovator. Lauren’s unparalleled ability to seamlessly blend fashion and the home is illustrated with the groundbreaking designs and innovative use of materials that have distinguished the home collection since its inception in 1983: menswear-inspired Oxford Cloth bedding that required the creation of special looms and took two years to refine; the sleek RL-CF1 chair, crafted of carbon fiber and inspired by Lauren’s McLaren F1 racecar; and an appreciation for a timeworn, weathered aesthetic, as exemplified in the iconic Writer’s Chair with its hand-burnished leather and rich patina. Historic achievements such as the opening of his first New York City flagship on Madison Avenue – which invited guests to experience the complete World of Ralph Lauren in a residential environment – and his renowned restaurants that offer the epitome of gracious hospitality, demonstrate the magnitude of Ralph Lauren’s influence on the worlds of lifestyle design and hospitality. The timeline is complete with quotes from distinguished members of the design world and prominent figures of our culture including Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and architecture critic Paul Goldberger.Ralph Lauren’s signature ability to create transportive environments begins with his private homes that inspire his iconic lifestyle collections. Ralph Lauren: A Way of Living offers an in-depth look at all the places Lauren calls home, from a sprawling ranch in Colorado and an island retreat in Jamaica, to a Fifth Avenue penthouse overlooking Manhattan’s Central Park, a seaside home in Montauk and a country estate in Bedford. Lauren’s homes are deeply personal expressions of his vision for living; captivating imagery is complemented by essays and descriptions written in his own words that intimately express the meaning of home and share inspiration and anecdotes for each residence. The photos of Lauren’s captivating homes are followed by a celebration of Ralph Lauren Home’s lifestyle collections – cinematic worlds that are brought to life with iconic imagery showcasing Lauren’s pioneering lifestyle approach and all-encompassing home collection.Ralph Lauren: A Way of Living honors the life and work of a true visionary and innovator. Ralph Lauren’s monumental impact on the way we live is as recognizable today as it was groundbreaking 40 years ago. His vision is not about trends of the moment, but is built upon values and things that last, and his legacy will continue to shape the places we call home.Cover photo by Richard Corman.
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Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest Dreams
Gabrielle Bernstein
4.3
Ready to take the next step toward living in alignment with the Universe? The #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back shows you how.
In Super Attractor, Gabrielle Bernstein lays out the essential steps for living in alignment with the Universe--more fully than you've ever done before.
"I've always known that there is a nonphysical presence beyond my visible sight," Gabby writes. "All my life I've intuitively tuned in to it and used it as a source for good. . . . What we call it is irrelevant. Connecting to it is imperative." Super Attractor is a manifesto for making that connection and marrying your spiritual life with your day-to-day experience. In these pages, you'll learn to: * Move beyond dabbling in your practice, when it's convenient, to living a spiritual life all the time * Take practical steps to create a life filled with purpose, happiness, and freedom * Feel a sense of awe each day as you witness miracles unfold * Release the past and live without fear of the future * Tap into the infinite source of abundance, joy, and well-being that is your birthright * Bring more light to your own life and the world around you
This book is a journey of remembering where your true power lies. You'll learn how to co-create the life you want. You'll accept that life can flow, that attracting is fun, and that you don't have to work so hard to get what you want. Most important, you'll feel good. And when you feel good, you'll give off a presence of joy that can elevate everyone around you. After reading this book, you will know how to fulfill your function: to be a force of love in the world.
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The Western Guide To Feng Shui: Creating Balance, Harmony, and Prosperity in Your Environment
Terah Kathryn Collins
4.3
Despite Feng Shui being an ancient Chinese approach, many people believe it still has relevance to the modern world. One among them is Terah Kathryn, who presents us with this guide to Feng Shui, specifically geared to lifestyles in the Western world.
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Feng Shui Modern
Cliff Tan
4.2
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The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story
Marie Kondō
4.2
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author and lifestyle/cleaning guru Marie Kondo, this graphic novelization brings Kondo's life-changing tidying method to life with the fun, quirky story of a woman who transforms her home, work, and love life using Kondo's advice and inspiration.
Marie Kondo presents the fictional story of Chiaki, a young woman in Tokyo who struggles with a cluttered apartment, messy love life, and lack of direction. After receiving a complaint from her attractive next-door neighbor about the sad state of her balcony, Chiaki gets Kondo to take her on as a client. Through a series of entertaining and insightful lessons, Kondo helps Chiaki get her home--and life--in order. This insightful, illustrated case study is perfect for people looking for a fun introduction to the KonMari Method of tidying up, as well as tried-and-true fans of Marie Kondo eager for a new way to think about what sparks joy. Featuring illustrations by award-winning manga artist Yuko Uramoto, this book also makes a great read for manga and graphic novel lovers of all ages.
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Lillian Too & Jennifer Too Fortune & Feng Shui 2020 Horse
Lillian Too and Jennifer Too
4.2
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de Gournay: Hand-Painted Interiors
Claud Gurney
4.2
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Feng-Shui
Eva Wong
4.2
The first complete, in-depth course in the traditional Chinese art of harmonious design for interiors, buildings, and sites--including instructions for making your own geomantic compass for feng-shui readings. Deeply rooted in Taoist and shamanic origins, feng-shui is not simply a list of directives for building auspicious structures or arranging interiors for good luck. It is the art of reading the patterns of the universe and living in harmony with the environment. With 200 photos and diagrams.
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Lillian Too's Easy-to-Use Feng Shui: 168 Ways to Success
Lillian Too
4.2
Looking for luck, love, wealth, and health? The world's best-selling writer on feng shui takes you step-by-step down the road to happiness! Lillian Too, renowned author of books and articles on this ancient Chinese art, divulges the secrets of controlling the powerful forces of ch'i to bring success into our lives. With 179 tips on everything from personalizing interior decoration to improving family relations, it's the most practical, thorough, systematic, and stunningly illustrated guide to eliminating every obstacle standing in the way of contentment. Enrich personal space by identifying auspicious corners, good fortune directions, and life-enhancing elements, and organize the household to intensify their beneficial qualities. Need to improve finances? Grow orange or lime plants, whose ripening fruits symbolize prosperity, or hang coins or bells on the doors. Sleep on an authentic Feng Shui bed, let carpets create solid foundations, and fill vases with the right flowers. Protect the home or office fr om the "shar chi" or "killing breath" of open shelves. And there's a reason traditional Chinese matriarchs keep cleaning paraphernalia out of sight-they know that visible brooms will "sweep away" the family's livelihood. Try one of many effective methods for ensuring togetherness and harmony between kinfolk, for helping children do well at school, and for attracting romance. As you put these time-tested ideas into practice, you'll feel your world getting better and better! 160 pages (all in color), 7 3/4 x 9 1/4. DELUXE PAPERBACK WITH FLAPS.
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Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home
Martha Stewart
4.2
Whether your home is small or large, an apartment in the city or a country cottage, it is a space that should be at once beautiful and livable. The key to that is managing the upkeep without feeling flustered. Until now, there has never been a comprehensive resource that not only tells how to care for your home and everything in it, but that also simplifies the process by explaining just when. With secrets from Martha Stewart for accomplishing the most challenging homekeeping tasks with ease, this detailed and comprehensive book is the only one you will need to help you keep your home looking its best, floor to ceiling, room by room.
In Martha Stewart’s Homekeeping Handbook, Martha shares her unparalleled expertise in home maintenance and care. Readable and practical–and graced with charts, sidebars, illustrated techniques, and personal anecdotes from Martha’s decades of experience caring for her homes–this is far more than just a compendium of ways to keep your house clean. It covers everything from properly executing a living room floor plan to setting a formal table; from choosing HEPA filters to sealing soapstone countertops; from organizing your home office to polishing your silver and caring for family heirlooms.
Martha Stewart’s Homekeeping Handbook is organized for clarity and maximum practicality:
Room by Room covers the upkeep of the appliances, tools, furnishings, and surfaces found in each room, from the entryway to the kitchen, from the attic to the laundry room.
Throughout the House instructs the reader on the proper ways to routinely clean and periodically maintain everything in the home, including dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, polishing, scrubbing, waxing and much more.
Comfort and Safety focuses on techniques to ensure your home is running properly and safely, such as recognizing when to clean vents, fixing a leaky faucet, and eradicating pests.
A-to-Z Materials Guide provides an invaluable resource that explains the unusual materials that many favorite objects are made of–from abalone to zinc– and how to care for them so they last.
Encyclopedic yet friendly, Martha Stewart’s Homekeeping Handbook is a seminal work–a must-have for everyone who wants a well-cared-for home that will endure for generations.
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Feng Shui and Health: The Anatomy of a Home: Using Feng Shui to Disarm Illness, Accelerate Recovery, and Create Optimal Health
Nancy SantoPietro and Thomas Lin Yun Rinpoche
4.2
A groundbreaking paperback original offers advice, charts, and checklists for fostering wellness through home furnishing placement and design.
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Eat, Drink, Nap: Bringing the House Home
Soho House
4.2
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Feng Shui and Money: A Nine-Week Program for Creating Wealth Using Ancient Principles and Techniques (Second Edition)
Eric Shaffert
4.2
"Eric has brightly lit each step of the path to abundance. Take a nine-week walk with him—you won't regret it!" —Karen Rauch Carter, author of the bestselling Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life In Feng Shui and Money, Second Edition, Eric Shaffert divulges the secrets to creating wealth using the principles of feng shui. Through the easy nine-week program, readers will discover the basic principles and philosophy of feng shui, the spiritual connection between feng shui and money, innovative suggestions for successful interior arrangements at home and in the office, ancient rituals and meditations to create prosperity, and simple guidelines for setting your goals and making real your dreams. This newly revised edition includes updated information on such topics as: Insights into your "money script" Profound ways to shift the financial flow in your life Feng shui "cures" for energetic and financial "leaks" Success stories from feng shui students and clients New insights that focus on the metaphysical and nondual aspects of feng shui Blending Eastern spirituality and Western psychological insight, Feng Shui and Money is an easy-to-follow guidebook that will lead to financial and spiritual renewal.
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Human Dimension and Interior Space: A Source Book of Design Reference Standards
Julius Panero, Martin Zelnik
4.2
The study of human body measurements on a comparative basis is known as anthropometrics. Its applicability to the design process is seen in the physical fit, or interface, between the human body and the various components of interior space.
Human Dimension and Interior Space is the first major anthropometrically based reference book of design standards for use by all those involved with the physical planning and detailing of interiors, including interior designers, architects, furniture designers, builders, industrial designers, and students of design. The use of anthropometric data, although no substitute for good design or sound professional judgment should be viewed as one of the many tools required in the design process. This comprehensive overview of anthropometrics consists of three parts.
The first part deals with the theory and application of anthropometrics and includes a special section dealing with physically disabled and elderly people. It provides the designer with the fundamentals of anthropometrics and a basic understanding of how interior design standards are established. The second part contains easy-to-read, illustrated anthropometric tables, which provide the most current data available on human body size, organized by age and percentile groupings. Also included is data relative to the range of joint motion and body sizes of children. The third part contains hundreds of dimensioned drawings, illustrating in plan and section the proper anthropometrically based relationship between user and space. The types of spaces range from residential and commercial to recreational and institutional, and all dimensions include metric conversions.
In the Epilogue, the authors challenge the interior design profession, the building industry, and the furniture manufacturer to seriously explore the problem of adjustability in design. They expose the fallacy of designing to accommodate the so-called average man, who, in fact, does not exist. Using government data, including studies prepared by Dr. Howard Stoudt, Dr. Albert Damon, and Dr. Ross McFarland, formerly of the Harvard School of Public Health, and Jean Roberts of the U.S. Public Health Service, Panero and Zelnik have devised a system of interior design reference standards, easily understood through a series of charts and situation drawings. With Human Dimension and Interior Space, these standards are now accessible to all designers of interior environments.
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Lillian Too & Jennifer Too Fortune & Feng Shui 2020 Dragon
Lillian Too and Jennifer Too
4.2
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The Modern Book of Feng Shui
Steven Post, Mert Carpenter, et al.
4.2
The Modern Book of Feng Shui is the ultimate tool for employing Feng Shui, or the ancient Chinese art of placement, to enrich your life. Whether in the workplace or in the home, this guide is the perfect first step in establishing harmony with the energy, or chi, through additions and awareness of your surroundings. Practiced for centuries in China, Feng Shui has been utilized by the world's largest corporations and by influential individuals in planning their businesses and homes. The Modern Book of Feng Shui contains the history and secrets of this ancient art. Through words and pictures, let it guide you in assessing your environment and employing time-honored principles and techniques of the art to maximize the symmetry and space of your life. Put the secrets of Feng Shui to work for you!
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Your Home Is a Vision Board: Harness the Secret Manifesting Power of Your Home
Marie Diamond
4.2
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A Little Scribble SPOT: A Story About Colorful Emotions
Diane Alber
4.2
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One Man's Folly: The Exceptional Houses of Furlow Gatewood
Julia Reed
4.2
When it comes to interiors style, antiques, and Southern vernacular architecture, Furlow Gatewood is a one-of-a-kind classic-this book presents his magical private enclave for the first time. Antiques expert Furlow Gatewood's highly personal property in bucolic Americus, Georgia, where he has meticulously restored his family's carriage house and added intimate dwellings and outbuildings-several rescued from demolition-has evolved over decades to become a sublime expression of stylish living. The structures exemplify various architectural traditions-from mid-nineteenth-century Gothic to Palladian. He has collaborated with local craftsmen to create these follies and takes delight in designing the picturesque grounds and plantings and in devising comfortable areas for his beloved dogs and peacocks. A gifted designer and longtime associate of antiques dealer John Rosselli, Gatewood has a talent for discovering singular pieces with a poetic patina, composing custom paint finishes and subtle palettes, and knowing how to incorporate distinctive architectural elements. To accompany the book's atmospheric images, close friend Bunny Williams writes about the lessons she has learned from this master of discernment. Gatewood's seductive and hospitable Arcadian oasis, with its exquisite and timeless design, will have an enduring impact on the design community.
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Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home
Julia Watkins
4.2
Recipes, DIY projects, and inspiration for a beautiful and low-waste life, from the creator of @simply.living.well on Instagram
In this timely and motivational guide, author Julia Watkins shares rituals, recipes, and projects for living simply and sustainably at home. For every area of your household—kitchen, cleaning, wellness, bath, and garden—Julia shows you how to eliminate wasteful packaging, harmful ingredients, and disposable items. Practical checklists outline easy swaps (instead of disposable sponges, opt for biodegradable sponges or Swedish dishcloths; choose a bamboo toothbrush over a plastic one) and sustainable upgrades for common household tools and products. Projects include scrap apple cider vinegar, wool dryer balls, kitchen bowl covers and cloth produce bags, non-toxic dryer sheets, all-purpose citrus cleaner, herbal tinctures and balms, and more, plus recipes for package-free essentials like homemade nut milk, hummus, ketchup, salad dressings, and veggie stock.
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Lillian Too and Jennifer Too Fortune and Feng Shui 2020 year of the metal rat Rabbit
Lillian Too and Jennifer Too
4.2
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Kelly Wearstler: Evocative Style
Kelly Wearstler
4.2
For her first book in ten years, Kelly Wearstler, one of the most irreverent and fascinating designers working today, continues to push boundaries with her inventive and opulent interiors, here inviting readers into her latest creations including her newly designed home.
Celebrated for luxurious interiors that capture the swankiness of old-world Hollywood with a modern pop sensibility, Wearstler is known for her decadent designs of residences and boutique hotels, such as the line of Viceroys and the tastemakers Maison 140 and Avalon. Her ornate interiors are distinctive for layers of bold textures, patterns, and rich colors juxtaposed with lustrous surfaces, adding up to a whimsical and elegant look that has been called "mod baroque."
Here Wearstler shares her creative world, profiling in detail her latest residential and commercial designs (several previously unpublished) and her sumptuous new San Francisco Proper Hotel, as well as her creative process. Full of ideas and with beautiful images of many never-before-photographed interiors, Kelly Wearstler: Evocative Style is an inspirational look at the designer's inventive work.
Filled with new work, this volume is a must for other designers and homeowners looking for elegant design inspiration and ideas.
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Total Feng Shui: Bring Health, Wealth, and Happiness into Your Life
Lillian Too
4.1
This highly accessible, fully illustrated guide is the most comprehensive volume available on this popular Chinese tradition. Internationally best-selling author Lillian Too puts prosperity and success within everybody's reach as she presents the fundamentals of feng shui and offers simple steps for employing its principles at home, outdoors, and in the workplace. The book is packed with practical instructions for making small changes that lead to big ones, such as placing potted plants in the southeastern corner of your home so that your finances bloom and grow. A thorough encyclopedia of feng shui vocabulary and concepts ensures that no one will confuse their Pa-Kua and their Lo Shu, while bold color and hip illustrations bring a contemporary feel to this ancient wisdom. Written with authority and humor, and presented in a fresh and vibrant package, Total Feng Shui is the last word on feng shui.
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Notes on Decor, Etc.
Paul Fortune
4.1
Interior design legend Paul Fortune opens his design portfolio and shares his inimitable worldview in this monograph-cum-memoir.
Arriving in Los Angeles from London during the 1970s, Paul Fortune gradually made his way as a graphic artist, art director of music videos, and even nightclub owner. But with the renovation of his own now legendary Laurel Canyon house in 1978, Fortune's career as an interior designer was born. Fortune Design Studio, based in Los Angeles, has been operating since 1982, enjoying the patronage of discerning clients worldwide, whose ranks include Marc Jacobs, Sofia Coppola, and David Fincher. Exhibiting a distinct style widely recognized for its integration of refinement with lived-in comfort, Fortune's designs are uniquely geared toward accommodating the history and material integrity of each chosen venture. In Notes on D�cor, Etc., Fortune--a natural raconteur--not only documents his favorite of these timelessly elegant projects but also his life and times as a designer, an expatriate, and an Angeleno in a one-of-a-kind chronicle that Architectural Digest, in its 2018 AD 100 list, describes as, "A tell-all monograph-cum-memoir detailing significant projects and stories from Fortune's peregrinations through the beau monde."
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Feng Shui Step by Step: Arranging Your Home for Health and Happiness--with Personalized Astrological Charts
T. Raphael Simons
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Simons, a feng shui master and astrologer, teaches readers how to feng shui their homes in a clear, step-by-step fashion and gives personalized advice based on readers' dates of birth. Simons presents not only the popular eight-point method but also divining techniques and other authentic Chinese methods that make analysis more complete. Illustrations.
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Feng Shui for Homebuyers - Interior (Second Edition)
Joey Yap
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Many people buy a home with one eye on the Feng Shui of the property. But how do you know if you're assessing the property correctly? How can you be certain that you're buying a property based on proper Feng Shui principles, not age-old superstition or old wives' tales? Not only is Joey Yap the world's leading figure in Chinese Metaphysics, he's also the go-to chief consultant of choice in the real estate and property development industry. Having provided consults for major development projects including luxury residentials, townships of more than 50,000 homes and commercial buildings across the globe with his consulting group, Joey Yap shares the dos and don'ts when it comes to Feng Shui inside a property in Feng Shui for Homebuyers - Interior.
This companion book to Feng Shui for Homebuyers - Exterior, explains what are the positive and negative Feng Shui features that homebuyers should look out for inside a property during the home-buying process.
What are the best locations for bedrooms in a house from a Feng Shui perspective? Do colours affect the Feng Shui of a property? How do you determine if a house has a good Main Door? Does the location of toilets matter in Feng Shui?
Complete with colour illustrations, photographs and house plans, Feng Shui for Homebuyers - Interior helps you to screen the Interior Feng Shui of a house and to evaluate if the Feng Shui is favourable or unfavourable, through simple observation of the Forms within the property. With the information in this book, you can avoid purchasing properties that require costly renovations to rectify internal Feng Shui flaws, select property with good Interior Feng Shui and understand what is important and what is not important when it comes to Feng Shui inside the house.
What You`ll Learn
Easy to use and simple to understand approach to Internal Forms Feng Shui for screening interiors Fully illustrated with photographs and drawings for easy understanding Practical walkthrough section that guides the homebuyer on how to go about screening the interior of a property Essential and useful information on Interior Feng Shui for architects, interior designers and real estate agents in this second edition A brand new chapter dedicated to the analysis of study room Forms All new illustrations and diagrams for easier comprehension of various Interior Feng Shui topics Additional Feng Shui scenarios and guidance related to analyzing bedroom Forms such as work desks in the bedroom, number of rooms and Water features
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Feng Shui for the Soul: How to Create a Harmonious Environment That Will Nurture and Sustain You
Denise Linn
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This enlightening book goes much deeper than other books on feng shui. It's a comprehensive look at both centuries–old techniques and the latest research so you can create an environment where your soul is nurtured so you can be at home wherever – you are.
This book has three parts:
Part One explains how to understand the deeper meanings and secret messages in your home, and also how clearing your clutter is like modern day alchemy...it can transform your life.
Part Two presents little-known information about how to activate mystic forces of nature into your home to revitalize your physical and spiritual health.
Part Three gives you an understanding of the Native American Medicine Wheel and shows you how to harness the energy from four cardinal directions.
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Beata Heuman: Every Room Should Sing
Beata Heuman
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Simple Shui for Every Day: 365 Ways to Feng Shui Your Life
Amanda Gibby Peters
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Heidi Caillier: Memories of Home: Interiors
Heidi Caillier, Haris Kenjar, and Amber Lewis
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Shamshiri: Interiors
Pamela Shamshiri, Ramin Shamshiri, and Mayer Rus
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Zakka Embroidery: Simple One- and Two-Color Embroidery Motifs and Small Crafts
Yumiko Higuchi
4.1
Embrace a simpler approach to stitching with bold one- and two-color embroidery motifs Zakka Embroidery presents designs that are an elegant blend of Japanese and Scandinavian style. The motifs and patterns are spare and graphic, yet softened with organic shapes and imagery drawn from nature. The result is embroidery that evokes a personal feel and conjures a sense of nostalgia. The task of picking just the right palette for an embroidery project can be overwhelming to beginners and experienced stitchers alike. But when you take away that challenge, a whole world of texture and style becomes available. Here Japanese designer Yumiko Higuchi presents embroidery motifs to be stitched using just one or two colors--creating patterns and designs that are more evocative for their form than for a play of colors. Each embroidery design is paired with a simple craft project, transforming the stitched fabric into a functional object, including pouches, pillows, aprons, and more. With beautiful photographs, clear step-by-step instructions, and detailed diagrams, Zakka Embroidery will be an inspiring guide for those new to embroidery and a delightful experience for those experienced with needle and thread.
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The Rebirth of an English Country House: St Giles House
The Earl of Shaftesbury
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The brilliantly restored St. Giles House, in the idyllic Dorset countryside, offers high-point Georgian architecture and interiors that bridge many historical styles.
The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, 39-year-old Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, invites the reader into the house that his family has called home since the fifteenth century. In recent years, his award-winning restoration has brought the house back to life, transforming exquisite spaces that honor the past while being suited to twenty-first-century living. English country-house splendor, through the hands of some of the world's top artisans and craftspeople, returns to the house in the form of re-created wallpapers, customized paints, revived furniture from the Georgian and Victorian periods, reworked antique Brussels tapestries, restored plasterwork and textiles, and a complete overhaul of the landscape, with its sunken garden, woodlands, avenue of beeches, lake, and shell-encrusted grotto.
With stories of noteworthy architecture, beautiful interiors, and centuriesof a single family's involvement in British and world history, this book will appeal to devotees of country living, the aristocratic life, historic houses, and English interior design.
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Francois Halard: A Photographic Life
Francois Halard
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This volume presents the famed photographer's newest lush images of the stunning interiors of acclaimed designers, artists, and tastemakers.
Francois Halard's unique photographic sensibility--old-world elegant and bohemian, accessible and personal--is unmistakable. Each image is imbued with the intimate knowledge of design history, each story a lesson in a master's point of view.
This book is a continuation of his last volume of gorgeous photography of grand interiors, artists' studios, and architectural pilgrimage sites. Each story's subject matter is not just a personal passion of the photographer, but also an indispensable chapter in design history: Philip Johnson and Charles James's de Menil House, Giorgio Morandi's studio, Rick Owens's radical Paris apartment, Eileen Gray's recently restored modernist home on the French coast, Dries Van Noten's verdant garden and home, the home and studio of Louise Bourgeois in New York, and many more. Like his first book, Francois Halard: A Photographic Life will be a coveted, indispensable must-have visual resource for all lovers of interiors, glamour, and style.
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The Practical Encyclopedia of Feng Shui: Understanding the Ancient Arts of Placement
Gill Hale
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Feng Shui for Healing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Improving Wellness in Your Home Sanctuary
Rodika Tchi
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Feng Shui
Elizabeth Moran, Master Joseph Yu
4.1
Considered the feng shui bible by classical practitioners and teachers, 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Feng Shui' has been updated to include more case stuides and feng shui readings to make the practical application of feng shui even more accessible; new chapters feature before and after photos of feng shi makeovers and explain Ming Gua; the Guardian Star that influences a person's character, and much more. One of the few Western books that focuses on classical feng shui, which is growing in popularity now that the topic has become more mainstream. Joseph Yu is one of only five world-renowned classical feng shui masters.
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Novogratz Design Fix: Chic and Stylish Tips for Every Decorating Scenario
Cortney Novogratz
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Design darlings Cortney and Robert Novogratz tackle a long list of design dilemmas and offer scores of smart tips on how to solve them.
Well known to their fans through their several reality TV shows (HGTV and Bravo), various home decor lines (with Amazon, WayFair, and now Home Goods), and their impressive social media following, designers Robert and Cortney Novogratz are beloved for their laid-back, chic, and family-friendly approach to home design.
The couple has done it all: with over fifteen years of experience building and decorating houses for themselves and their exacting clients, they have faced every possible design challenge. In this volume, they offer up in-depth advice and tips for a multitude of design and decorating situations using over a dozen projects as examples: how to restore an old home and bring it back to life; how to turn a generic rental into a personality-filled space; how to use bold color to transform your home; how to decorate for small spaces; how to create spaces for kids, from bedrooms to playrooms; how to incorporate art in your home; and how to turn your house into an attractive Airbnb rental, among many other design-dilemma topics.
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Feng Shui House Book
Gina Lazenby
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Feng Shui is the ancient art of placement to create harmony in the environment. This book demystifies the subject and shows, in theory and in practice, how to apply its principles to the home. Questionnaires and diagrams help the reader to identify potential problem areas in their own lives and homes. Design solutions show how to overcome these problems to best effect. Case studies on every area of the home show 'before' and 'after' scenarios in a wide range of homes.
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Feng Shui for Wellness and Wealth: Simple Feng Shui Tricks for Personal and Professional Success: Health, Money and Happiness with Feng Shui Tips for Work and Home
James Adler
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If you're ready to learn exactly how to successfully incorporate the principles of Feng Shui into your life and home environment, then this guide is definitely for you! Feng Shui will help you create a balanced lifestyle and fill your personal and professional life with positive energy that can work harmoniously towards your success. There is a prevalent belief that Feng Shui is something that only rich people can practice, another belief that is promoted by many other 'experts'. In fact, anybody can practice Feng Shui if they understand its basic principles. You don't need to buy any expensive 'cures' or other special equipment to practice Feng Shui in your home. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn From Feng Shui For Wellness And Wealth: -The Simple Rules of Feng Shui that can be applied inexpensively and even if you live in a small apartment -Feng Shui Tricks for your office: stay focused and attract abundance! -How to attract health and vital energy for you and your loved ones -How to use Feng Shui to bring overall Wellness -The most common mistakes that we make with Feng Shui -How to re-arrange your bedroom to attract love and sexual vitality -How to create positive energy around you and let it work for you + Much, much more! What are you waiting for? Start creating Harmony, Wealth, Health, and Prosperity of Your Home and Office right away! You'll be so happy you did!Purchase now and start your transformation today! Scroll to the top of the page and select the 'buy button'. Tags on product: room decorating ideas, feng shui map, fung shway, fung shui, feng sui, feng shu, feng shui house, feng shui for home, bagua feng shui, feng shui bagua map, feng shui rules, feng shui numbers, feng shui decorating, what is feng shui, chinese feng shui, feng, fengsui, feng shui for beginners, feng shui, feng shui tips, feng shui colors, feng shui bagua, bagua, feng shui basics, fengshui
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The Martha Manual: How to Do (Almost) Everything
Martha Stewart
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Essential life skills from America's most trusted lifestyle expert—together in one beautiful and practical handbook, with hundreds of ideas, instructions, and inspirations
Martha Stewart is America’s go-to source for the best answers to nearly every question. As an authority on the many worlds upon which she’s built her domestic empire, she can advise on everything from creating a cutting garden and setting the table to playing classic lawn games or building a campfire. Whether it’s organizing, celebrating, cleaning, decorating, or any number of other life skills, these are the time-tested, Martha-approved strategies for frequent challenges and basic how-to knowledge that everyone should have at the ready. Also included are plenty of solutions for the not-so-common conundrums, such as how to transport a decorated cake, bathe a cat, or fold an American flag. With hundreds of expert tips and useful insights in an easy-to-follow format, this is the manual you need to learn how to do everything—the Martha way.
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Interior Design with Feng Shui
Sarah Rossbach, Lin Yun
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In this practical workbook, Sarah Rossbach shows how to locate buildings and arrange furniture and rooms to enable occupants to live and work to their fullest potential.
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Alfredo Paredes at Home
Alfredo Paredes, Brad Goldfarb
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The first book by the interior designer who made his name as chief creative officer for Ralph Lauren—he brought us the legendary Polo Bar and the Madison Avenue flagship store’s immersive windows and retail environments, and now he shows us how to fashion our own homes to reflect his signature coolly casual and comfortable look.While touring readers through four of his own homes, Paredes shares the key elements in his creative process, giving us access to the same tools he uses in every home to decorate rooms that feel modern even as they glamorize the past, to show us how an environment has real power to transform our very state of mind. Paredes is renowned for being a master of extrapolating an entire theme from one unique item, say transforming the stripe of a crisp Oxford shirt into a unique upholstery perfect for the seaside, or finding inspiration for a couch’s decorative fringe in a well-worn piece of leather ranch gear. He is said to have “perfect visual pitch,” creating vignettes and rooms with an energy that feels undeniably masculine and sophisticated thanks to dark wood, iron railings, rustic fabrics, an overall patina, and soft furnishings in soothing earth tones.
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Beautiful: All-American Decorating and Timeless Style
Mark D. Sikes
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This New York Times bestselling book from interior designer Mark D. Sikes is a celebration of American style today, showcasing chic and accessible ideas for every home. Modern and unfussy, Mark D. Sikes's interiors are classic takes on California indoor/outdoor living, with natural fibers and crisp coloration, informed and influenced by the fashion world where he began his career. In eight chapters, he explores approachable, stylish looks, from "Blue and White Forever," which features indigos, stripes, batiks, and wicker in casual rooms such as porches and pool houses; to "Timeless Neutrals," presenting semiformal rooms filled with chinoiserie, gilt, glass, mirrors, banquettes, and French chairs; to "Garden Greens," featuring happy, casual family rooms and kitchens inspired by the garden with treillage woodwork, rattan, and cotton. There are also "Beautiful Brights," colorful rooms that are eclectic, layered, and fun, with chintz, florals, and Middle Eastern influences; and "Sun Faded Hues," rustic coastal rooms with weathered fabrics and furniture. Each chapter presents light-filled images of the designer's looks and offers the reader inspiration and advice. As famed film director Nancy Meyers writes in the book's foreword, this is a book that shows design lovers "how classic can look fresh, how style and comfort go hand-in-hand."
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Decorating with the Five Elements of Feng Shui
Tisha Morris
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Balance your energy, improve your relationships and happiness, and heal your living space and the planet. Join feng shui expert Tisha Morris as she reveals the amazing possibilities for transformation when you use five elements wisdom to make simple yet beautiful changes in your home and life.
The five elements--Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water--are the threads of energy that connect all living beings with nature. Learn how each element is expressed not only in nature, but also through you and your home. Start with a quiz to understand your elemental makeup. Then follow the three-step formula to incorporate feng shui into your life. With a room-to-room guide for using the five elements, instructions for healing spaces both inside and outside, and much more, Decorating With the Five Elements of Feng Shui will help you find harmony in your body, your home, and the world.
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The New Bohemians Handbook: Come Home to Good Vibes
Justina Blakeney
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The New Bohemian Handbook guides readers in beautifully simple techniques for adding good vibes and style to living spaces. Packed with hundreds of ideas for bringing positive energy to your home, the book features exercises and activities for thinking about rooms in new ways.
With Justina’s expert guidance, learn how to rearrange, paint, prop, and plant your way to a home that’s fresh and inspiring. Uncover your “spirit environment” and learn how to use color and scent to enhance mood, productivity, and relaxation. Revel in Justina’s encouraging advice (“you got this!”), and easily and affordably turn any dwelling into a personal sanctuary.
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Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi
Honghzhi Zhengue, Taigen Dan Leighton, Yi Wu
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First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi is one of the most influential poets in all of Zen literature. This translation of HongzhiÆs poetry, the only such volume available in English, treats readers to his profound wisdom and beautiful literary gift. In addition to dozens of HongshiÆs religious poems, translator Daniel Leighton offers an extended introduction, placing the masterÆs work in its historical context , as well as lineage charts and other information about the Chinese influence on Japanese Soto Zen.
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Feng Shui Mommy: Creating Balance and Harmony for Blissful Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
Bailey Gaddis
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Impending motherhood serves up a confusing cocktail of heroic strength and terrifying vulnerability. Our culture has seized on the “vulnerability” part of this experience and tends to reinforce a pregnant woman’s insecurities instead of encouraging her to embrace this most natural time and trust her body, her intuition, and her own mind. Feng Shui Mommy takes a different approach, helping the expecting mother build her own unique, epic journey to motherhood. It’s about supporting her while she shores up her mind-body-spirit alignment so she can best handle the cosmic kick in the uterus and juicy kiss on the soul that pregnancy is. Bailey Gaddis guides women through the experience, providing specific suggestions for mind, body, and spirit for each trimester (including the “fourth,” after birth), leading to birth preparation designed for each mother and baby, and culminating in strong mother-child bonding. She includes detailed and practical information about prenatal exercise and nutrition, birth preferences and birthing positions, breath work, breastfeeding, and much more. Her advice allows mothers to welcome delight and curiosity into the journey while taking each phase with purpose and calm — and even a sense of fun. This comprehensive guide makes challenge and change joyful, allowing new life to be as incomparably wonder-filled as it is meant to be.
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Clean My Space: The Secret to Cleaning Better, Faster, and Loving Your Home Every Day
Melissa Maker
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The wildly popular YouTube star behind Clean My Space presents the breakthrough solution to cleaning better with less effort
Melissa Maker is beloved by fans all over the world for her completely re-engineered approach to cleaning. As the dynamic new authority on home and living, Melissa knows that to invest any of our precious time in cleaning, we need to see big, long-lasting results. So, she developed her method to help us get the most out of our effort and keep our homes fresh and welcoming every day. In her long-awaited debut book, she shares her revolutionary 3-step solution:
- Identify the most important areas (MIAs) in your home that need attention - Select the proper products, tools, and techniques (PTT) for the job - Implement these new cleaning routines so that they stick Clean My Space takes the chore out of cleaning with Melissa's incredible tips and cleaning hacks (the power of pretreating!) her lightning fast 5-10 minute "express clean" routines for every room when time is tightest, and her techniques for cleaning even the most daunting places and spaces. And a big bonus: Melissa gives guidance on the best non-toxic, eco-conscious cleaning products and offers natural cleaning solution recipes you can make at home using essential oils to soothe and refresh. With Melissa's simple groundbreaking method you can truly live in a cleaner, more cheerful, and calming home all the time.
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The Well-Loved House: Creating Homes with Color, Comfort, and Drama
Ashley Whittaker
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Online Investing For Dummies, 10th Edition
Matthew Krantz
4.1
Build a winning portfolio--and reduce your risk--with this bestselling guide
Online investing has never been easier--or more potentially confusing. Now that every broker or finance site has its own app, data, or approach, it can be all too easy to be misled and make a bad decision. Online Investing for Dummies helps you reduce risk and separate the gimmicks from the gold, pointing investors of all experience levels to the pro-tips, calculators, databases, useful sites, and peer communities that will lead to success.
Updated to include information on mobile trading and the influence of social media on the markets, the book also covers the basics--showing you how to figure out how much to invest, find data online, and pick an online broker. It then progresses through to more advanced topics, such as calculating returns, selecting mutual funds, buying bonds, options, commodities, and IPOs, taking you and your money wherever you want to go in the global market.
Set expectations and assess your risk Analyze stocks and financial statements Assemble the suite of tools to calculate your performance Get tips on choosing the right online broker and on protecting your information online It's time to get a pro strategy, and Online Investing for Dummies has all the inside information you need to build up that winning portfolio.
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Magical Housekeeping: Simple Charms & Practical Tips for Creating a Harmonious Home
Tess Whitehurst
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Let your home nourish your soul and uplift your spirits. Swirl magical botanicals into your cleaning supplies, call fairies into your garden, ask a spider for advice. Clear clutter for clarity, perform the oatmeal cookie ritual for abundance, or make a sweet dreams charm for a good night's sleep.
In this delightful book, intuitive counselor Tess Whitehurst reveals how your home can be a powerful catalyst for personal transformation and manifestation. She offers a variety of simple, whimsical ways to create a harmonious home while enhancing your own happiness, intuition, and magical power.
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"Filled with valuable information and ancient wisdom to activate sparkling energy and create true sacred space in your home. I recommend it!"--Denise Linn, author of Sacred Space
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Feng Shui Your Life: A Beginner’s Guide to Using Your Home to Attract the Life of Your Dreams
Marie Diamond
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Feng Shui in the Garden
Nancilee Wydra
4.1
Offers advice on combining line, color, touch, sight, and smell to create a peaceful garden retreat.
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Embroidered Botanicals: Beautiful Motifs That Explore Stitching with Wool, Cotton, and Metallic Threads
Yumiko Higuchi
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Clear Home, Clear Heart: Learn to Clear the Energy of People Places
Jean Haner
4.1
Have you ever entered a room and it just didn’t feel right, yet you couldn’t explain why? Do you sense a natural comfort with some people but are immediately stressed by others? The truth is that we’re all influenced far more than we realize by the invisible energy of the people and places around us. This, along with difficult experiences in your past that still weigh you down, can keep you from being a creative force in your life.
Clearing is a gentle but powerful way to release the old stress you’re still carrying from your life history, as well as transform how you’re affected by the energy around you each day. Many people experience immediate shifts in their energy during a clearing, and significant change often unfolds in the days and weeks afterward. In fact, clearing has even been described as “accelerated meditation” because it can lead to a sense of calm and happiness that typically results only after years of a mindfulness practice.
In this simple, elegant guide, Jean Haner teaches you, in easy-to-follow steps, how to clear your own energy or that of any person, as well as bring harmony to the energy of the spaces you inhabit, so you can reclaim your vitality and joy, and open up infinite new possibilities in life. Healers, intuitives, energy workers, highly sensitive people, and anyone who just wants to optimize their energy and live their best life will find this to be the perfect training. Jean refines energy clearing to its pure essence—the power of the compassionate heart!
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The Soul Searcher's Handbook: A Modern Girl's Guide to the New Age World
Emma Mildon
4.1
From aromatherapy and numerology to healing crystals and meditation, this fun and sassy guide to everything body-mind-spirit defines New Age practices for a new generation.
What type of crystal should I put in my car for a road trip? Should I Feng Shui my smart phone screen? In this illuminating introduction for the modern-day soul searcher, Emma Mildon shines light on everything your mom didn’t teach you about neo–New Age practices.
With something for every type of spiritual seeker, The Soul Searcher’s Handbook offers easy tips, tricks, and how-tos for incorporating everything from dreamology and astrology to mysticism and alternative healing into your everyday life. This handbook is your #1 go-to guide—handy, accessible, entertaining, and packed with all the wisdom you need in one place.
Your destiny, gifted to you at birth, is waiting. So plug into the universe, dig your toes into the soil of Mother Earth, and open your soul to your full potential. Regardless of what you’re seeking, The Soul Searcher’s Handbook is your awakening to a more fulfilling and soulful life.
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Altars: Bringing Sacred Shrines into Your Everyday Life
Denise Linn
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The New Elegance: Stylish, Comfortable Rooms for Today
Timothy Corrigan
4.1
AD100 and Elle Decor A-List designer Timothy Corrigan shares his secrets for creating rooms that are elegant and comfortable, luxurious yet livable.
Throughout his career, Corrigan has established a look that is layered and detailed, while always suitable for the way people live today. His distinctive approach encompasses practicality as well as beauty, merging European refinement with California comfort. Here, Corrigan shares homes in which he has defined a new contemporary elegance, including a John Fowler-inspired London townhouse, a Hollywood Regency-inspired Los Angeles Colonial, an art-filled Chicago apartment in the sky, and Corrigan's own Paris pied-�-terre.
Corrigan includes advice throughout on how to adapt classic design principles and traditional forms to make them work for busy modern lives. Between each chapter are instructive interludes in which Corrigan outlines the building blocks of successful decoration, with fundamental topics such as scale and proportion, symmetry, architectural details, and working with color.
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Feng Shui: A Feng Shui Quick Guide Book That Makes Sense - Discover How To Bring Harmony and Balance of Feng Shui To Your Home and Office (Feng Shui Home, Feng Shui Clutter, Feng Shui Books)
Sam Siv and Christy Lyn
4.1
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Lillian Too & Jennifer Too Fortune & Feng Shui 2020 Dog
Lillian Too and Jennifer Too
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Catify to Satisfy: Simple Solutions for Creating a Cat-Friendly Home
Jackson Galaxy
4.1
In this book, Jackson Galaxy, star of Animal Planet’s hit show My Cat from Hell, and Kate Benjamin, cat design wizard, show cat guardians everywhere how to use home design tricks to address everyday cat care issues. Does your feline friend like to pee everywhere but in his or her litter box? Does your kitty have a thing for your furniture that has left your beloved couch in tatters? Catify to Satisfy will show you how simple DIY design projects and hacks can help bring harmony back into your home. Featuring the amazing projects cat guardians from around the world have shared with Jackson and Kate—design strategies for solving even the most daunting kitty challenges—this book is the ultimate guide to creating a happy home for cat guardian and cat alike.
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Inside Marrakesh: Enchanting Homes and Gardens
Meryanne Loum-Martin
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Project 333: The Minimalist Fashion Challenge That Proves Less Really Is So Much More
Courtney Carver
4.0
Wear just 33 items for 3 months and get back all the JOY you were missing while you were worrying what to wear.
In Project 333, minimalist expert and author of Soulful Simplicity Courtney Carver takes a new approach to living simply--starting with your wardrobe. Project 333 promises that not only can you survive with just 33 items in your closet for 3 months, but you'll thrive just like the thousands of woman who have taken on the challenge and never looked back. Let the de-cluttering begin!
Ever ask yourself how many of the items in your closet you actually wear? In search of a way to pare down on her expensive shopping habit, consistent lack of satisfaction with her purchases, and ever-growing closet, Carver created Project 333. In this book, she guides readers through their closets item-by-item, sifting through all the emotional baggage associated with those oh-so strappy high-heel sandals that cost a fortune but destroy your feet every time you walk more than a few steps to that extensive collection of never-worn little black dresses, to locate the items that actually look and feel like you. As Carver reveals in this book, once we finally release ourselves from the cyclical nature of consumerism and focus less on our shoes and more on our self-care, we not only look great we feel great-- and we can see a clear path to make other important changes in our lives that reach far beyond our closets. With tips, solutions, and a closet-full of inspiration, this life-changing minimalist manual shows readers that we are so much more than what we wear, and that who we are and what we have is so much more than enough.
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A Place to Call Home: Tradition, Style, and Memory in the New American House
Gil Schafer III
4.0
For award-winning architect Gil Schafer, the most successful houses are the ones that celebrate the small moments of life--houses with timeless charm that are imbued with memory and anchored in a distinct sense of place. Essentially, Schafer believes a house is truly successful when the people who live there consider it home. It's this belief--and Schafer's rare ability to translate his clients' deeply personal visions of how they want to live into a physical home that reflects those dreams--that has established him as one of the most sought-after, highly-regarded architects of our time. In his new book, A Place to Call Home Schafer follows up his bestselling The Great American House, by pulling the curtain back on his distinctive approach, sharing his process (complete with unexpected, accessible ideas readers can work into their own projects) and taking readers on a detailed tour of seven beautifully realized houses in a range of styles located around the country--each in a unique place, and each with a character all its own. 250 lush, full color photographs of these seven houses and other never-before-seen projects, including exterior, interior, and landscape details, invite readers into Schafer's world of comfortable classicism. Opening with memories of the childhood homes and experiences that have shaped Schafer's own history, A Place to Call Home gives the reader the sense that for Schafer, architecture is not just a career but a way of life, a calling. He describes how the many varied houses of his youth were informed as much by their style as by their sense of place, and how these experiences of home informed his idea of classicism as a set of values that he applies to many different kinds of architecture in places as varied as the ones he grew up in. Because while Schafer is absolutely a classical architect, he is in fact a modern traditionalist, and A Place to Call Home showcases how he effortlessly interprets traditional principles for a multiplicity of architectural styles within contemporary ways of living. Sections in Part I include the delicate balance of modern and traditional aesthetics, the juxtaposition of fancy and simple, and the details that make each project special and livable. Schafer also delves into what he refers to as "the spaces in between," those often overlooked spaces like closets, mudrooms, and laundry rooms, explaining their underappreciated value in the broader context of a home. Part of Schafer's skill lies in the way he gives the minutiae of a project as much attention as the grand aesthetic gestures, and ultimately, it's this combination that brings his homes to life. Part II of the book is the story of seven houses and the places they inhabit--each with a completely different character and soul: a charming cottage completely rebuilt into a casual but gracious house for a young family in bucolic Mill Valley, California; a reconstructed historic 1930s Colonial house and gardens set in lush woodlands in Connecticut; a new, Adirondack camp-inspired house for an active family perched on the edge of Lake Placid with stunning views of nearby Whiteface Mountain; an elegant but family-friendly Fifth Avenue apartment with a panoramic view of Central Park; a new timber frame and stone barn situated to take advantage of the summer sun on a lovely, rambling property in New England; a new residence and outbuildings on a 6,000 acre hunting preserve in Georgia, inspired by the historic 1920s and 1930s hunting plantation houses in the region; and Schafer's own, deeply personal, newly-renovated and surprisingly modern house located just a few feet from the Atlantic Ocean in coastal Maine. In Schafer's hands, the stories of these houses are irresistibly readable. He guides the reader through each of the design decisions, sharing anecdotes about the process and fascinating historical background and contextual influences of the settings. Ultimately, the houses featured in A Place to Call Home are more than just beautiful buildings in beautiful places. In each of them, Schafer has created a dialogue between past and present, a personalized world that people can inhabit gracefully, in sync with their own notions of home. Because, as Schafer writes in the book, he designs houses "not for an architect's ego, but [for] the beauty of life, the joys of family, and, not least, a heartfelt celebration of place."
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Lillian Too's 168 Feng Shui Ways to Energize Your Life
Lillian Too
4.0
Use Lillian Too's 168 simple yet effective feng shui techniques to encourage the flow of inner and outer chi to unlock the secrets of success and harmonious living.
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Practical Feng Shui: Arrange, Decorate and Accessorize Your Home to Promote Health, Wealth and Happiness
Simon G. Brown
4.0
Promote good health and general well-being, improve your sex life and interpersonal relationships, and realize your personal and professional aspirations by arranging and decorating your home. Described by the author as "a Shiatsu massage for your whole being," Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of designing your surroundings in order to channel the positive energies of the universe and promote success in life, health, wealth, and happiness. Begin by studying the basic principles of Feng Shui: the concepts of chi energy, yin and yang, the Five Elements, the Eight Directions, and Nine Ki astrology, and learn to use the tools of the art. Next, examine the structure and shape of your home as well as its setting, and determine how these affect your life favorably or unfavorably. See how to furnish and decorate each room in the house in the best possible way. Guidance is given in choosing colors, fabrics, plants, mirrors, lighting, artwork, and other decorative elements. Arrange the seating in the living room to promote family harmony and sociability. Select table settings that will improve mealtimes. Situate your bed to enhance your communication skills, cure insomnia, or heighten romance. Regardless of how you want to improve your life, using Feng Shui you can get the forces of nature to work with you rather than against you. Ward Lock 160 pages (all in color), 7 3/4 x 10.
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The Home Edit Life: The Complete Guide to Organizing Absolutely Everything at Work, at Home, and on the Go
Clea Shearer
4.0
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Splash: The Art of the Swimming Pool
Annie Kelly
4.0
Splash provides the inspiration for anyone designing, or dreaming about, their own pool.
This celebration of the style, design, and joy that pools bring to us brims with over 200 glamorous photographs. It is organized by swimming pool design--from glimmering infinity pools with a view of the ocean to dramatic cascading waterfall pools and those in lush garden settings. Ranging from beautifully landscaped backyards to dramatic beaches and tropical paradise surroundings, the stunning pool locales show creative examples of pools as architecture and organic forms. In the mix are seductive pools owned by such celebrities as Cher and Dianne Keaton and leading designers Bunny Williams and Carolyne Roehm, as well as masterpieces by famed architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and Luis Barrag�n. Splash concludes with a section on poolside elements, from tiled steps, patterned surfaces, and Jacuzzis to pool houses with outdoor showers, landscaping, furnishings, and much more. Every example evokes the enduring and irresistible appeal of the swimming pool.
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Interior Design Master Class: 100 Lessons from America's Finest Designers on the Art of Decoration
Carl Dellatore
4.0
With one hundred essays from one hundred interior designers, spanning stylistic genres from classic to modern, on subjects as varied as "Collecting," "White," "Portals," and "Layering", this book highlights the knowledge, experience, expertise, insight, and work of established design legends, as well as members of the new guard, spanning over four decades of work. Unique in the quality of its contributors, this book will be a landmark publication in the field, helpful and inspirational for the home decorator, as well as students of design and design professionals. Poised to become the essential book on design, Interior Design Master Class collects the expertise and knowledge of the best interior designers working today. Opening Interior Design Master Class is like sitting down to the best dinner party you've ever attended. A classic in the making, the book features one hundred essays by America's top designers--from established design legends to members of the new guard--that explore in detail the process of designing a home, from the fundamentals to the finishing touches. Grouped by theme, the subjects range from practical considerations (Bunny Williams on "Comfort," Etienne Coffinier and Ed Ku on "Floor Plans") and details (Victoria Hagan on "Light," Rose Tarlow on "Books") to inspiration (Jeffrey Bilhuber on "America" and Charlotte Moss on "Couture") and style (Kelly Wearstler on "Glamour," Thomas O'Brien on "Vintage Modern"). Each piece is paired with images of the designer's work to illustrate the principles being discussed, annotated with informative captions.Unique in the quality of its contributors, this is a book that readers will refer to again and again for advice and inspiration, an invaluable resource for practical tips and thought-provoking design.
Select Contributors and their Topics:
Vicente Wolf on Teachers; Barry Dixon on Relationships; Barbara Barry on Awareness; Amanda Nisbet on Intuition; Madeline Stuart on Trends; Suzanne Tucker on Archaeology; Bobby McAlpine on Intimacy; Stephen Sills on Aspirations; Mark Cunningham on Symmetry; Richard Mishaan on Portals; Campion Platt on Proportion; Cindy Smith and Jane Schwab on Editing; Juan Montoya on Scale; Amy Lau on Commissions; Suzanne Kasler on Style; Thomas O'Brien on Vintage Modern; Alan Wanzenberg on Modernity; Alexa Hampton on Tradition; Kelly Wearstler on Glamour; Anthony Baratta on Exuberance; Tom Scheerer on Luxury; Suzanne Rheinstein on Nuance; Timothy Corrigan on Welcoming Spaces; Bunny Williams on Comfort; Miles Redd on Reinvention; Martyn Lawrence Bullard on Sex; Mario Buatta on Color; Darryl Carter on White; Alessandra Branca on Red; Alex Papachristidis on Layering; Victoria Hagan on Light; Thad Hayes on Quality; Kathryn Ireland on Textiles; Windsor Smith on Communication; Nancy Braithwaite on Collecting; Kathryn Scott on Patina; Timothy Whealon on Antiques; Rose Tarlow on Books; Thomas Jayne on Provenance; Emily Summers on Sourcing Furniture; Thomas Pheasant on Inspiration; Sandra Nunnerley on Jazz; Penny Drue Baird on Paris; Jeffrey Bilhuber on America; Robert Couturier on Fashion; Ann Pyne on Poetry; Alan Tanksley on Destinations; Charlotte Moss on Couture
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Flying Star Feng Shui: Change your Energy; Change your Luck
Stephen Skinner
4.0
Flying Star Feng Shui adds a new "time dimension" to feng shui practice reflecting the fact that the subtle energies present in our living environment are constantly changing.
The flying star combinations make it possible to respond to-or prepare for-these changing energy "situations." These methods produce impressive and rapid results and can both shorten periods of bad luck, while initiating or prolonging periods of good fortune. These concepts have previously been available only from a few untranslated or highly technical sources.
Author Stephen Skinner has an international reputation as a populizer of feng shui concepts for Western readers. In Flying Star Feng Shui he introduces one of the most effective and popular aspects of feng shui practice today.
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My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation
Donald M. Rattner
4.0
Interest in creativity is booming. Whether it's to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace, or to find personal fulfillment, people are looking to develop their capacity for creative and innovative thinking in business and daily life. Many have turned to the growing literature of creativity to shed the shackles of conventionality and discover new ways of doing things. Now comes THE CREATIVITY CATALOG, a fresh and original take on the pursuit of innovation. Rather than start with the premise that creativity originates largely from within our minds, THE CREATIVITY CATALOG looks outward to the things we surround ourselves with in our home and work environments to uncover a trove of products deliberately designed to cultivate our mental faculties through hands-on experience. Among the products featured are furnishings, accessories, shelving, cookware, jewelry, and children's playthings. Pieces are attractively presented with 550 high-quality photographs and explanatory text, and supplemented by an introduction by author, educator and architect Donald Rattner on the history and future of interactive, touch-based design. Profiles of the designers and brands represented, and a list of further resources, round out this distinctive book.
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You Can Do Beautiful Things: An Approachable Guide to Creating Spaces You Love
Galey Alix
4.0
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this groundbreaking, step-by-step interior design book, the DIY social media star and host of HGTV's Home in a Heartbeat empowers you to create spaces that are visually stunning and emotionally fulfilling, no matter where you're at in life.On Home in a Heartbeat, Galey Alix surprises and transforms families' homes in just a three-day window. Now she has created a high-level guide and road map readers can follow when (re)designing their own spaces.Once a high-powered finance broker, Alix turned away from the finance world and started posting her home renovation videos to social media for family and friends. She stepped away for several months due to a bad breakup and when she logged back in to her accounts, she found that she had millions of views and requests from followers all over the world asking her to come and transform their spaces as she had transformed her own.Entirely self-taught and naturally gifted in aesthetics, Alix uses the core principles of interior design to empower her to take bold risks, break the right rules, and deliver amazing results. Drawing from her experience, she knows how to make any space work, from tips that make a room feel bigger and ceilings look taller to choosing the perfect white paint for your walls. Alix knows where you can skip the full-on remodel and still make a big impact, freeing up your budget for great décor pieces instead.With You Can Do Beautiful Things, Alix shares the road map she uses when remodeling a space, as well as her ride-or-die rules, how to renovate on a budget, how to start a design business, and more! By offering practical tips and guidelines, she gives readers a comprehensive resource to create aesthetically pleasing and emotionally fulfilling homes.
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The Holistic Home: Feng Shui for Mind, Body, Spirit, Space
Laura Benko
4.0
Rule the world and take control of your emotional and mental health from where you sit, stand, and sleep. Chapter by chapter, learn how to tackle it all—relationships, clutter, health, communities, inner balance, and more—by looking within your immediate environment to make direct connections in your life.
The Holistic Home is based on an original lifestyle concept focused on creating a dynamic, healthy, and thoughtful space within yourself and your home by combining three planes of action—mind, body, and spirit—that result in profound change.
The condition of the mind affects the psychology of how you dwell: subconscious influences, decorating with intention, and allowing your emotional issues and challenges to manifest in your space. The physical aspects of your design space, such as furniture positioning, design elements, sustainability, wellness, and organization, are representative of your relationship with your body. And finally, the spirit refers to all the invisible energies within you and your home—feng shui, atmosphere, and the soul of your home.
Years ago, author and holistic feng shui expert Laura Benko was diagnosed with a rare cancer. Around that time, a book serendipitously fell on her head. She took this as a much-needed sign to devote the next decade of her life to research and hundreds of transformative holistic design consultations. Her clients’ real-life, inspiring stories, along with specific actions and tips, have become the foundation for The Holistic Home.
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The Well Adorned Home: Making Luxury Livable
Cathy Kincaid
4.0
Renowned interior designer Cathy Kincaid's first book provides a fresh approach to combining classic and contemporary design with a refined sensibility.
Known for her carefully nuanced color palettes and attention to detail, Cathy Kincaid creates warm and gracious interiors. Her worldly taste in collecting art and furnishings, her intricate layering of patterns, and the customized details--from trelliswork to lacquered surfaces--she applies to every room are hallmarks of her style. Presented are varied residences, ranging from a ship captain's cottage and a 1920s Spanish Colonial to a bucolic farmhouse and a family house in the country, in such locations as Dallas, Connecticut, and the South of France.
Sprinkled throughout is Kincaid's advice on such topics as selecting the right lighting, whether it be sconces or lamps; ways to showcase blue-and-white porcelain; and suggestions for how to edit one's home. She has been long involved in historic preservation, working on many landmarked dwellings. Learn from this design expert how to achieve a comfortable yet sumptuous home environment.
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern
Wanda M. Corn
4.0
This book explores how Georgia O'Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O'Keeffe's clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O'Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today's fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. As one of her friends stated, O'Keeffe -never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another.- This fresh and carefully researched study brings O'Keeffe's style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber. This beautiful book accompanies the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O'Keeffe's unified modernist aesthetic.
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Poetry of Place: The New Architecture and Interiors of McAlpine
Bobby McAlpine
4.0
An appealing approach to creating dwellings blending vernacular styles, fine craftsmanship, and indigenous materials.
This volume features the recent projects of McAlpine, one of the country's most highly respected architecture and interior design firms, renowned for its timeless houses exemplifying the charm and elegance of traditional and vernacular English, American, and European styles blended with a modern sensibility.
Following from their first book, The Home Within Us, this book profiles twenty stunning projects, from a stone tower folly standing in the gardens of a Tudor-style house to a humble yet elegant wooden lakeside retreat. Through his poetic voice, Bobby McAlpine narrates the story of each residence, pointing out its unique qualities. Featured are an exotic Florida Panhandle beach house; a Tuscan-style horse farm; a rambling Colonial Revival compound; and a miniature European manor house, among others. These dwellings are classically understated and welcoming. With its gorgeous photography of inspiring interiors and exteriors, Poetry of Place will appeal to those interested in design romancing the past.
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10-Minute Feng-Shui: Easy Tips for Every Room
Skye Alexander
4.0
Feng shui, the ancient Chinese art of placement, can transform your love life, financial situation, health, and overall happiness. And it�s easier than you think to reap the rewards of this amazing art! Just a few simple changes to your d¬cor can result in big benefits. -Put a vase of yellow flowers in your kitchen to increase your wealth. -Place a live plant in your bedroom to improve your love life. -Tie nine small bells on a red cord and hang it from your front door to bring happiness into your home. -Hang a mobile in a sick room to clear congestions and respiration problems.
In just ten minutes, you can revive stagnant energy and bring "ch'i" into you home. Feng shui has been used successfully for centuries, and these tips are the best of what feng shui has to offer. TheyÃ?re simple, theyÃ?re fun, and they work!
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Lillian Too's Flying Star Feng Shui For The Master Practitioner: The Ultimate Guide to Advanced Practice (Lillian Too's Feng Shui in Small Doses)
Lillian Too
4.0
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Bricks & Brownstone: The New York Row House
Charles Lockwood
4.0
The much-awaited reissue and reexpression of the classic New York row-house book Bricks and Brownstone, with all-new and updated text, new color photography, and luxury slipcase.
The classic book Bricks & Brownstone, the first and still the only volume to examine in depth the changing form and varied architectural styles of the much-loved New York City row house, or brownstone, was first published in 1972. That edition helped pave the way for a brownstone revival that has transformed New York's historic neighborhoods over the past half-century. Rizzoli published a revised and expanded edition of the book in 2003, to much fanfare. This edition revisits the classic comprehensively, with an updated text and additional chapters, and an abundance of specially commissioned color photography. It offers to an eager audience the long-awaited re-issue of the landmark volume in a brilliant new form.
Boasting more than 250 color and black-and-white images, this definitive volume traces New York's row houses from colonial days through World War I, examining in detail the Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Second Empire architectural styles of the early and mid-nineteenth century, as well as the Neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque, Renaissance Revival, and Colonial Revival styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The new Bricks & Brownstone remains the gold standard reference on brownstone architecture and interiors, and one of the few truly classic histories of New York's urbanism and real estate development.
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Lillian Too's 168 Feng Shui Ways to Declutter Your Home
Lillian Too
4.0
The world’s leading authority on Feng Shui, and author of several international bestsellers, presents 168 surefire strategies for eliminating excess baggage, renewing energy, and generating new pathways within your house and mind. Lillian Too’s colorful guide offers strategies that range from practical cleaning (including tidying tabletop clutter) to visualizations. For specific needs or a general feng shui makeover, here are simple, affordable solutions.
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Charlotte Moss: Garden Inspirations
Charlotte Moss
4.0
Celebrated interior designer and renowned tastemaker Charlotte Moss turns her eye to the garden as a resource for interiors, entertaining, and good living. Charlotte Moss’s greatest muse is the garden, and this book shows the myriad ways the garden provides inspiration every day—indoors and outdoors. Touring readers through her own gardens, Moss offers insights on how to bring the garden into home life—including ideas for elegant flower arrangements from the garden and the table settings and menus they inspire, garden seating for entertaining and relaxing, interior color schemes drawn from nature, and much more. Moss also shares with readers key garden lessons that she has culled from her time spent exploring magnificent gardens around the world, including French and Italian, English and Russian, private and public, and also the gardens of great women, past and present. An extensive resource guide of notable gardens to visit is also included. With this verdant volume, Moss shows us—implores us—that "to behold our own patch of beauty and pleasure" (in Edith Wharton’s words) is not beyond our reach.
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Morning, Noon, Night: A Way of Living
Soho House
4.0
Morning, Noon, Night: A Way of Living from Soho House, follows the bestselling Eat, Drink, Nap. ‘I’ve been astonished by the number of people who went out and bought the first book, which really set out to explain our founding principles,’ says Soho House founder Nick Jones. ‘Since that was published, we’ve built Soho Farmhouse on 100 acres of Oxfordshire countryside, transformed a former belt factory in Chicago, reimagined a 140-year-old palazzo in Istanbul, restored the shell of a listed Georgian building in London's Soho and launched our own collection of homeware, called Soho Home.’
The 300-page, cloth-bound book invites readers behind the scenes at the Houses– taking you through the day from the second you wake up to the moment you go to bed. Key elements of the Soho House way of living are illustrated and broken down into helpful features, like how to make a tasty vegan breakfast or creating the perfect bedroom, with plenty of inspirational new imagery along the way.
Interior design, food and drink take centre stage, and with more than 20 years of design experience behind them, Soho House’s experts offer impactful insights into House style, including tips on their favourite sources and suppliers – all designed to help you take a little of the House home.
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The Feng Shui of Abundance: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Attracting Wealth Into Your Life
Suzan Hilton
4.0
Money is more than a bank balance; it’s a reflection of the overall abundance in your life. Now, a CPA and feng shui practitioner presents an unusual and valuable application of the ancient Eastern tradition of feng shui. Delving into all of the life forces that affect financial health, The Feng Shui of Abundance is not just a monetary makeover; it is a whole-being program whose benefits include: ·Locating the wealth area of your office or home ·Dislodging clogged energy in your career ·Drawing on the five currents of the “River of Gold” to address debt, personal spending, and your own potential for abundance ·Creating a financial plan that speaks to your dreams and desires A liberating book for those who feel financially “trapped,” and for anyone who wants to achieve his or her potential, The Feng Shui of Abundance incorporates all three feng shui aspects–wind, water, and energy–unleashing the forces that control true wealth, creating clearer harmony between your money, goals, and dreams. This is the perfect handbook for anyone seeking genuine peace of mind as well as financial prosperity.
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California Romantica
Diane Keaton
4.0
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A Year in the French Style: Interiors & Entertaining by Antoinette Poisson
Vincent Farelly, Jean-Baptiste Martin, Ruth Ribeaucourt, and John Derian
4.0
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The Principles of Feng Shui
Larry Sang
4.0
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What Your Clutter Is Trying to Tell You: Uncover the Message in the Mess and Reclaim Your Life
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