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The Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies makes it easy to choose and construct todays most popular window treatments. Colour photographs present twenty styles in a variety of room settings, involving fabrics, trims and decorative hardware, and they then show how to do-it-yourself. The projects include tailored, romantic and contemporary curtains and formal draperies with all styles of pleats.

There are step-by-step instructions from start to finish, on such aspects as measuring the window, calculating yardage, cutting, sewing and installing. Following in the tradition of Windows with Style and Creative Window Treatments, Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies is an indispensable part of an all-new series of window decor books.

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Learn how to make slipcovers to fit all different styles of furniture with The Complete Photo Guide to Slipcovers, Pillows, and Bedding. From making simple seat cushions for wooden chairs to complicated covers for sleeper sofas, this comprehensive, how-to reference covers all the options and teaches all the essential skills.

Readers can easily access information with step-by-step directions and hundreds of color photos for clear understanding, and inspiring home interior photography shows slipcovered furniture pieces in real home settings.

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The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments, Second Edition is the most comprehensive book of its kind on the market, offering the reader both inspiring location photography plus step-by-step instructions for making 50 different projects. Window treatments include several curtain styles, formal draperies, swags, valances, cornices, various Roman shades, and roller shades. Designed for the DIY home sewer, this book is also valued by professional workrooms and trade schools because it teaches professional methods for measuring, sewing, and installing window treatments. Now updated with new photography and the latest window treatment styles, this second edition is a must-have for any DIY home sewer.

The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments makes it easy to choose and construct today's most popular window treatments - 20 styles of valances, swags, and cornices; 20 styles of curtains and draperies; plus 10 types of window shades.

Room photographs show each style in a variety of decorating styles, fabrics, and hardware.

Each project has step-by-step instructions from beginning to end: measuring the window, cutting the fabric with confidence, sewing or constructing the project, and installing the treatment the professional way.

Over 500 how-to photographs and diagrams make it easy to have professional results.

This is the big book of DIY window treatments!

The Design Directory of Bedding is the must-have resource for designers, workroom professionals, and do-it-yourselfers. Concise, straight-to-the-point lists, definitions, and descriptions of design fundamentals and components provide a comprehensive education on bedding design.

• Hundreds of inspirational ideas and patterns
• Expertly illustrated with 1,000 renderings that can be used repeatedly.
• Companion CD-ROM includes black-and-white line drawings of the illustrations plus detailed workroom worksheets and service request forms.

Jackie Von Tobel is a practicing interior designer with twenty years of experience in high-end residential design. She is a member of the WCAA and is certified by the WFCP and the author of The Design Directory of Window Treatments. Her interior design firm, Plush Home, is located in Las Vegas, Neveda.

The complete reference to bed skirts, covers, pillows, headboards, canopies and more

The Design Directory of Window Treatments features professional illustrations detailing every type of window treatment imaginable, and is an invaluable guide for trade professionals and consumers.

Jackie Von Tobel preformed an exhaustive search of current window treatment design and manufacturing trends to identify and name more than 350 individual components that can be mixed and matched to create an infinite number of window treatments.

Each of these elements and designs are expertly illustrated in more 1300 color renderings that can be used repeatedly.

Black-and-white line drawings of these illustrations are also included on a companion CD-Rom, along with a complete worksheet system for designer use. 

About the Author:

Jackie Von Tobel is a practicing interior designer with twenty years of experience in high-end residential design. She attended the University of San Diego and the Design Institute of San Diego. She is a member of the WCAA and is certified by the WFCP. Her interior design firm, Plush Home, is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Completely updated and revised: the latest in window & bed covering ideas, and now with an extensive Bed Covering section, The Encyclopedia Window & Bed Coverings is Charles Randall's newest creation based upon his original masterwork: The Encyclopedia of Window Fashions.

This new book continues the tradition of blending historical, classic and contemporary offerings.

The Encyclopedia of Window & Bed Coverings is a must have for interior designers, homeowners, and decorating enthusiasts alike. With more full-color and black & white illustrations than ever before, this book presents countless combinations of window and bedding treatments for any room in the home: from a simple rod pocket curtain to a period style masterpiece.

Now with 320 pages of cost-saving ideas, yardage calculations and fullness charts, you will quickly see why this book has not only become the industry standard for window decor inspiration, but also the world s best-selling window decorating book.

Includes:

- Extensive Period Style window decorating ideas in color and black line artwork
- Extensive bed coverings section with coordinating draperies, valances, etc.
- Hard window coverings coordinated with valances, swags, cornices etc.
- Numbered images that will eliminate miscommunications with workrooms and designers.
- Equal size color and black line drawings
- Extensive yardage calculations
- Solutions for difficult windows

Chapters:

1. Period Style Window Treatments
2. Draperies & Curtains
3. Valances
4. Cornices & Lambrequins
5. Swags & Cascades
6. Fabric Shades
7. Shades, Shutters & Blinds
8. Bed Coverings
9. Glossary of Decorating Terms; Glossary of Fabric Terms; Textile Fibers & Properties

Illustrated with thousands of vivid pictures, this encyclopaedia is filled with original ideas for dull, featureless and problem windows. It also deals with many other subjects such as pillows, seat cushions, bedding, lambrequins, cornices, swags and shades. Every type of window is covered, from corner to clarestory, from bay to bow, picture and palladian. In addition to the 14 main chapters, there are several glossaries explaining decorating terms, textile fibres and their properties, drapery fabrics, basic window types, fabrics and fabric terms.

arles Randall started in the soft furnishing business in 1976, working as a drapery installer. After a few years, he then started selling window treatments for the largest drapery company in California. After three years as a top salesman, he started a successful window decorating and manufacturing company in 1980. in 1987, he wrote the first comprehensive book on window decorating of its kind, instantly becoming an international bestseller. After selling 1,000,000 copies, it remains the best-organised, most comprehensive window decorating book of its kind.

Feast your eyes on some of the hottest fireplace designs and hearth products available today. This book is a must for people who already own a fireplace and seek design inspiration, people who want to retrofit an existing fireplace, and people who are installing a new fireplace in their home. An inspiring guide to today's vast assortment of hearth products, it features over 225 gorgeous color photographs of dressed-up fireplaces and stoves, and helpful tips to help you design a fireplace environment. These wonderful gas and woodburning fireplaces are attractively adorned to spark your imagination. Whether your style is classic, traditional, or contemporary, you'll be sure to find designs that suit you. This is an invaluable resource that no current or future fireplace owner or designer should be without.

The Glasshouse traces the evolution of the building type back to antiquity and goes on to describe developments in the sixteenth century when houses and orangeries were first constructed in glass. The history continues into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when increasingly complex structures were built incorporating iron and industrial construction techniques. The contribution of innovators such as Joseph Paxton and J C Loudon is charted and their influence on the pioneers of twentieth-century design such as Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut is examined.

- Traces the evolution of the glass building from its humble hothouse beginnings to the climate-controlled, high-tech structures of the 20th century
- A wide range of horticultural and other building types, including early 16th-century orangeries and examples from the 18th and 19th centuries when increasingly more complex structures, incorporating iron and industrial construction techniques
- Charts the contributions of innovators such as Joseph Paxton and John C Loudon and their influence on pioneers of 20th-century design such as Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut
- Illustrated with a wide selection of archival and contemporary photographs, etchings and lithographs

This wonderful book presents a thorough survey of the art of stained glass from early times to the present day.

This is a guide to the most important, beautiful and unusual stained glass to be found around the world

It is an invaluable sourcebook, with a meticulous, step-by-step illustrated account of the process of the making of a stained glass window and a comprehensive analysis of the issues facing conservationists.

International stained glass expert Virginia Raguin traces the emergence of stained glass as a unique art form through an examination of its techniques and symbolism, and the political and historical contexts – both ecclesiastical and secular – in which it has been displayed.

The story spans over 1,000 years, from the dramatic, richly patterned figures in Strasbourg Cathedral, via the monumental programmes at Chartres, York, Cologne and Florence, to modern masterpieces by Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Henri Matisse and John Piper among others.

From Romanesque to Gothic Revival, Renaissance to Opalesque, Virginia Raguin reveals her profound knowledge of the naunces of style and the aesthetics of light in this compelling field.

Soft furnishings – from curtains and cushions, to bed and table linen – can provide the perfect finishing touches to a room, adding an injection of colour and pattern. So often, store-bought furnishings are either hugely expensive or mass-produced, but The Home-Sewn Home shows you the easy way to create your own, using the wonderful fabrics designed by Vanessa Arbuthnott. There are 50 inspiring step-by-step projects, all with easy-to-follow step artworks and instructions.

The projects range from a simple cushion and table runner for the novice stitcher, through to lined curtains with an array of different headings, blinds, bed throws and table linen. There is a chapter on accessories, including a cook’s apron, a tote bag and table mats, which also make great presents, while the basic techniques chapter teaches you all the skills you need to make any of the projects.

Throughout the book, Vanessa offers practical advice on mixing fabrics, colours and patterns, helping you to achieve a truly individual look in your home. There are variations, too, allowing you to adapt the projects to suit your own surroundings. Whether you have just bought your first sewing machine, or want to find new ways to use Vanessa’s stunning fabrics, The Home-Sewn Home will show you the way.

About the author

Vanessa Arbuthnott started her own fabric design business ten years ago and was soon featured in Country Living and the Saturday Telegraph. She has never looked back and her enthusiasm for designing fabric is as strong as ever. This is her first book. Vanessa is based in Gloucestershire, UK.

Gail Abbott is a home stylist and writer whose work regularly appears in interiors magazines such as The World of Interiors, Homes & Gardens and Ideal Home. She is the author of nine books, including Shoestring Chic, Living with Light, Decorating with Blue and White, Living with White, and The Newly-Wed’s Guide to Setting up Home, all published by CICO Books. Gail is based in Cambridge, UK.