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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Mississippi

Lessons I've Learned from Saving Old Homes (and How They Saved Me)

Part celebrity memoir and part self-help book, Better Than New goes behind the scenes with an entrepreneurial single mom who worked her way from waitress/real estate agent to home renovation expert, preservationist, and television star. With eight chapters in the book--eight lessons told through her life story and through several of the homes she has remodeled - readers will get to see another side of Nicole Curtis, including the private and personal struggles that are not seen on TV. Working in Detroit and Minneapolis, Curtis has opened her fans' eyes to the beauty of older homes and the value of reclaiming and reusing authentic original materials rather than sending dumpster loads to the local landfill. Curtis applies the same principles to her personal life - valuing old friends, rescuing dogs, and advocating for the wounded, the elderly, and the disadvantaged. Readers will find inspiration to apply to their own lives supplemented with never-before-seen photos of Curtis and the homes she renovates.

Better Than New

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon

The essences of the safari look is a blend of ethnic American & colonial European styles created by the expatriates who settled on the East African savanna. This compelling style of living is brilliantly captured in this exciting new book, which showcases the architecture & interiors of the homes, safari lodges & camps found in the vast eastern reaches of the African continent.

Safari Style

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

1,000 Simple Ways to Bring Beauty into Your Home and Life Each Day

For thirty-seven years and in nineteen previous books, Alexandra Stoddard has shared her keen eye for design and sure sense of style. Now this renowned decorator and lifestyle philosopher takes readers to a new level of visual awareness, showing how to achieve the discerning eye that is the key to creating beautiful environments for living.

In Open Your Eyes, Alexandra Stoddard shows us how to see with the expertise and clarity of professional designers, creating a home that reflects our individual sense of beauty, refined to its best expression. She reveals how to use daily awareness to educate our eye, sharing examples from the masters and her own extensive training and personal experience. These visual epiphanies can happen anywhere, once we become attuned-perhaps as we set a pretty table, straighten a linen closer, stroll in a park or garden, or browse in a thrift shop.

Through Stoddard's anecdotes and a rich array of ideas, tips, and techniques, we learn hundreds of ways to see and solve problems of proportion, pattern, color, and composition through simple, pleasing changes. These may be as subtle as rearranging treasured objects on a table, altering a lamp shade, or moving a chair-but they have dramatic results: a home that is more beautiful, more comfortable, and more useful, reflecting our unique sense of life. Each day becomes a visual feast as we deepen our understanding not only of what makes something beautiful but of what makes something beautiful to us.

Filled with the warmth, encouragement, and down-to-earth solutions that have helped hundreds of thousands to seek and find their own personal style, Alexandra Stoddard's Open Your Eyes provides essential tools to elevate our understanding of what makes our house a home and transform our surroundings into personal works of art.

For thirty-seven years and in nineteen previous books, Alexandra Stoddard has shared her keen eye for design and her sure sense of elegant style. Now this renowned decorator takes readers to a new level of visual awareness, showing how to achieve the discerning view that is the key to creating beautiful environments of professional quality.

Open Your Eyes teaches, step by step, the principles of proportion, scale, order, symmetry, balance, space, form, composition, material, and more that provide the basis for true beauty. Stoddard shows how to use daily awareness to educate our eye, sharing examples from visual mentors and from her own training and experience. Each day becomes a visual feast as we hone our sensitivity to beauty and our understanding of what makes something beautiful.

The author invites us to open our eyes and really see: How many colors are in a sunset? A glass of water? The soap bubbles in the sink? Why does one room look cramped and inharmonious, while another gives the impression of light and space? And how can we use this new vision to create a pleasing, comfortable personal world? In the process of learning to train our eye, Alexandra Stoddard enables us to become the artists of life. With this book in hand, we have all the essential tools to begin transforming our homes and our surroundings into personal works of art.

Open Your Eyes

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Eaglemoss Staff

Great resource on blending new items and what you already have to create your vibe!

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Readers will make their decorating dreams come true with this showcase of the very best in today's home décor. Page after page features glowing photos of unique decorating styles, with helpful information on color theory, design, patterns, textures and more.

30-Minute Decorator

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We all need a haven, a place to soothe, restore, & refresh our spirits after the stress & demands of everyday life. This place can exist for everyone in her own home with a little imaginative decorating. Welcome to Victoria Intimate Home, the first book devoted to the emotional furnishings that can transform an ordinary house into a private, tranquil oasis. Here beauty & serenity co-exist with function. In Victoria Intimate Home personal pursuits are explored, & one might find a basket with stationary & a pen next to the sofa, or a chair by the window for solitary reverie. Bedrooms & baths are designed with grace ad light in mind, where one can greet the morning & perform daily grooming rituals surrounded by favorite things. With more than 85 glorious color photographs accompanying the text, conversations with homeowners who have mastered the art of the intimate home, & poetry & prose from such beloved writers as Virginia Woolf, Honore de Balzac, & Saki, Intimate Home pays tribute to private spaces, encouraging beauty in all things & joyful love of life & its round of daily pleasures.

Victoria: Intimate Home, Creating a Private World

#paperback #nonfiction #architecture #studios #lofts #oneroomliving #interiordesign 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Wisconsin

One Room Living

Studios and Lofts provides the reader with an expansive guided tour of different types of studio apartments, all of recent construction. Focusing on the visual impression of the apartments, the book is an ample source of ideas and inspiration that readers can easily put into practice. 150 illustrations.

Studios and Lofts

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Linda Hallam

This book is in amazing condition. See photos. 

Nebraska

Express Yourself with Color

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#hardcover #fiction #design #interiordesign 

Georgia

A comic experiment in sociology and self-absorption, the award-winning author Thomas Clerc's autobiographical Interior is a unique invitation into a professor's preoccupations and possessions within the rooms of a small Parisian apartment. Composed of bite-size vignettes, remembrances, and digressions, and filled with lighthearted transitions from pure description to quirky reminiscence and back, this meticulous tour through the rooms of Clerc's home reveals fascinating insights into the author's obsessions, desires, and frustrations. Each space is described in painstaking detail, sometimes down to the centimeter, and the history of every object and appliance is fully excavated with self-deprecating wit. From the ideal varieties of bathroom reading material to the color of his dish rack to the chaos of his sock drawer, Clerc happily and shamelessly guides us through the most intimate crannies of his home, as well as through all the strata of his existence as a bourgeois city dweller approaching middle age. Playful and irreverent, as well as a sly commentary on materialism, Interior finds drama in the domestic and dark humor in every doomed attempt to express individuality through the things that we own.

Interior

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North Carolina

Presents a variety of practical and attractive solutions for organizing everything from wardrobes to home offices, explaining how to alleviate the clutter and provide storage in every room of the house.

Good Things for Organizing

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Ex library book with markings in exvellent condition though. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Seeing red? Feeling blue? Or even a bit green? No worries! This beautifully designed, fully illustrated book makes it easy for anyone to express themselves though color. Strangis -- an award-winning interior designer with over 20 years of experience -- goes beyond simple paint schemes to show how the combined colors of walls, trim, furniture, fabrics, and accessories can give every room a unique personality. From bright and bold to cozy and comfortable, this indispensable guide offers a rainbow of fresh and fun ideas for every budget. Color Idea Book is the most complete source of ideas and inspiration for adding color to any room in the house.

Color Idea Book

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Victoria Magazine Editors

Pennsylvania

Creating a Private World

Intimate Home

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Mary Gilliatt

Connecticut

A follow up to Mary Gilliatt's Interior Design Course demonstrates an array of practical and creative methods to decorate a home, covering how to assess a structure's unique needs, color, lighting, furniture, storage, flooring, window treatments, and more.

Mary Gilliatt's Complete Room-by-Room Decorating Guide

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Your Guide to Planning and Furnishing

Meets the needs of 50 million people who work from their homes.

Home Offices

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Walking You Through the Transformation of Your Home

Brings a fresh and novel approach to interior decorating. It identifies simple, stunning ways to improve your home, and thus enhance your life. Step-by-step, author Jayne Pelosi helps readers overcome the chronic areas where people get stuck in the design process, such as how to become inspired to decorate, how to select coordinating fabrics, or how to decide where to put colour in a space. It is written in a practical and straightforward style laced with humour and a warm spiritual perspective. You'll feel like you're talking to a dear friend, or better yet, a Design Coach! Interior Divine is not a style-based manual; Jayne does not advocate one style over another, perhaps because she loves them all! Rather, throughout the book, Jayne encourages you to become acquainted with your design personality and to learn how to honour it in the design of your interiors. Replete with beautiful photography and helpful charts, Interior Divine is sure to become a staple in your interior design library.

Interior Divine

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Tessa Evelegh

Hello, and thank you for browsing The Raven's Cache! Caw! 🐦‍⬛ 
This book is a pre-loved former library book in excellent condition ready to go to its next destination. Library books are special, because they've been loved by many, and we're glad this one is going to find its way to you!
Most library books do contain library markings that might include a tag on the side, a stamp (or two) on the inside, and possibly an index card. 
Below, you can find examples of how I rate my books before they go to their new homes. It's important to know the quality of the book you're getting, so I've taken pictures of any aspect of the book that renders it pre-loved rather than new. 
All books are shipped quickly (next business day), and come from a smoke and pet free home.


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- LIKE NEW: I will never rate a library book like new. These are books that look like they've never been read or owned. 
- EXCELLENT: The best condition for library books, and a great condition for books otherwise. Library books will have library markings (always pictured), but will have no further noted wear and tear. For non-library books, these are the books that have been read, but are not show no remarkable signs of wear, tear or defect.
- GOOD: Show signs of use and mild to moderate wear. All pages are in tact and the book is completely readable. Library books have library markings, and some non-library books may have a dedication or stamp or sticker, some creases. Signs of formerly being loved.
- FAIR: A book that shows visible signs of wear and tear. These books might have creases, folds, markings, or missing dust jackets (all pictured).  A 'fair' book will ALWAYS have its pages in tact, and the full book will be readable.
- POOR: These books have seen better days. The pages might be loose, there are visible signs of wear and tear, the spine might be coming free from the book.

✨ Please note that my books are often given to me and may not reflect my own views. Please research books and look at photos prior to buying. ❤️ 
I am one disabled human looking to spread kindness and get by, please be kind. 10% of my profit goes toward nonprofits aiming to making books accessible to others.

❓ If you have any questions or want to make an offer or bundle books, please message me. Let's see what we can do. 🙂

Vermont

Take a "class" with House Beautiful's teachers! All the design know-how anyone needs to decorate a new home or redo an old house is right in this one-stop, all-encompassing, lushly photographed, and brilliantly conceived volume. Everything from wonderful home basics and working with space to the art of color and perfect patterns to the absolute essentials for floors, windows, walls, and lighting is here. In addition to presenting fundamental decorating principles, this unequalled reference looks at different styles, such as Country, Modern, and Seaside; suggests ways of adding drama to a space or period grandeur; and leads you on an inspirational idea-filled walk through the house, analyzing options for every room. Eye-opening pictures of beautiful interiors reveal how to fill even the smallest bedroom with simple comfort, showcase architectural features, make the best use of soft furnishings, and much, much more. Each page brims with bright ideas for every nook and cranny.

House Beautiful Decorating School

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Although pages are discolored from a long & happy shelf life, the book is in mint condition. 

New York

American Country

Chronicle Books

*minor shelf wear 

With over 1000 color combinations, this remarkable book assists with color choice in several important ways: it takes the guesswork out of putting colors together by showing in advance what they will look like; innovative color schemes provide new ideas; tint percentages for every color insure correct reproduction. This book is meant primarily as a professional tool for anyone associated with design or the design process. Because of the inclusion of screen values of the four process colors, this book will make perhaps its greatest contribution to those who realize their design through some printed process -- graphic designers, certainly; also environmental designers, advertising and package designers and probably some members of architectural firms who become involved in printed media. In a much broader sense, the book has real value to anyone who needs to confirm color suggestions and examples presented in a straightforward, pure and neutral way.

Over One Thousand Color Combinations

Take 90 basic colors, combine each in either ten or twenty different color schemes, and you have the basis for an extraordinary new design tool. With over 1,000 color combinations, this remarkable book takes the guesswork out of putting color together, provides new ideas for innovative color schemes, and more.

Designer's Guide to Color

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#decorating #Textures #wallpaper #flooring #interiordesign 

Nevada

In four distinct sections: principles of design, a room-by-room guide, material sample book, and furniture and furnishings guide, here's all the information you need to make every possible decorating decision yourself. 750 color photos and illustrations.

The Decorating Book

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Ty Pennington

Travis Thrasher

A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT TY PENNINGTON
AND YOUR FAVORITE HOME SHOWS

With his signature raucous sense of humor and contagious energy, the star of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Trading Spaces, Ty Pennington, shares his life story for the first time-the lessons he's learned from serving others, the power of random acts of kindness, his experience battling ADHD while juggling a busy career, and gripping anecdotes with behind-the-scene glimpses of America's favorite home shows. In this inspirational biography punctuated with witty insights into human nature, Ty takes you racing through his life with ADHD-infused diversions that will make you laugh out loud.

How a Chaotic Kid Became America's Favorite Carpenter

Ty Pennington shares stories from his life and offers a behind-the-scenes look at your favorite home shows!

As a kid, Ty Pennington had too much energy. He was chaotic, bouncing off the walls, and on a first-name basis with the local emergency room staff. Back then there wasn't public awareness of attention deficit disorder yet. People just thought Ty was rambunctious. A trouble maker. What do you do with a kid who just can't sit still? Who can't focus?

But Ty discovered something amazing when he was just a boy: he felt focused when he was building something. He discovered that he loved to work with his hands - to use tools and be creative. He loved to try new things, build and design new things.

In Life to the Extreme Ty shares his remarkable life story. In his characteristic humorous style, he takes you racing through his life with ADHD-infused diversions that will make you laugh out loud. He shares about how he was diagnosed with ADHD in college, and what it has meant to be an advocate for ADHD awareness. He shares about his start as a model and carpenter, and his eventual move to television where he starred in the hit shows Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Trading Spaces.

Life to the Extreme will inspire you. Ty's boundless energy and his sense of humor are infectious. You'll laugh. You might cry a little. And you'll definitely be inspired to change the lives of those around you.

Life to the Extreme

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Molly Hyde English

Linda Svendsen

Hello, and thank you for browsing The Raven's Cache! Caw! 🐦‍⬛ 
This book is pre-loved and in good condition ready to go to its next destination. We're glad to see that this treasure has caught your eye.
Below, you can find examples of how I rate the quality before they go to their new homes. It's important to know the quality of the book you're getting, so I've taken pictures of any aspect of the book that renders it pre-loved rather than new. 
All books are shipped quickly (next business day), and come from a smoke and pet free home.


- - - - - - - - - -
✅  How The Raven's Cache rates its books:
LIKE NEW: I will never rate a library book like new. These are books that look like they've never been read or owned.
EXCELLENT: The best condition for library books, and a great condition for books otherwise. Library books will have library markings (always pictured), but will have no further noted wear and tear. For non-library books, these are the books that have been read, but are not show no remarkable signs of wear, tear or defect.
GOOD: Show signs of use and mild to moderate wear. All pages are in tact and the book is completely readable. Library books have library markings, and some non-library books may have a dedication or stamp or sticker, some creases. Signs of formerly being loved.
FAIR: A book that shows visible signs of wear and tear. These books might have creases, folds, markings, or missing dust jackets (all pictured).  A 'fair' book will ALWAYS have its pages in tact, and the full book will be readable.
POOR: These books have seen better days. The pages might be loose, there are visible signs of wear and tear, the spine might be coming free from the book.

✨ Please note that my books are often given to me and may not reflect my own views. Please research books and look at photos prior to buying. ❤️ 
I am one disabled human looking to spread kindness and get by, please be kind. 10% of my profit goes toward nonprofits aiming to making books accessible to others.

❓ If you have any questions or want to make an offer or bundle books, please message me. Let's see what we can do. 🙂

A Stylish Blend of Old and New

Camps and Cottages

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Karen Rauch Carter

Utah

How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness

Applying the ancient Chinese practice of feng shui to modern life, the author reveals how carefully arranging items in the home can lead to remarkable results in love, career, and personal happiness. Original.

Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life

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“The Housewives' Guide to Antiques” by Leslie Gross is an informative and engaging resource for anyone interested in the world of antiques. This book offers practical advice, tips, and insights into collecting, valuing, and preserving antiques, making it a valuable tool for both novice and experienced collectors.

This copy is in excellent condition, with no marks, or any imperfections. All details are clearly presented in the images provided, ensuring potential buyers can see the quality of the book. It's a great addition for anyone looking to deepen their knowledge of antiques! 📚✨

Ohio

Housewives Guide to Antiques

Francis Donegan

Skills, Techniques, and Tricks of the Trade for Professional Looking Interior Painting

This book will provide the information first-time painters really need. With its easy-to-understand, fully illustrated instructions, "Paint Your Home" will make the difference between an okay paint job and one that reflects the care and touch of an expert. 350 full-color photos. 50 illustrations.

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Nicole Curtis

Better Than New

Natasha Burns

Safari Style

Alexandra Stoddard

Open Your Eyes

Eaglemoss Staff

30-Minute Decorator

Victoria Magazine

Victoria: Intimate Home, Creating a Private World

Marcos Nastaras

Studios and Lofts

Linda Hallam

Express Yourself with Color

Thomas Clerc

Interior

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Good Things for Organizing

Robin Strangis

Color Idea Book

Victoria Magazine Editors

Intimate Home

Mary Gilliatt

Mary Gilliatt's Complete Room-by-Room Decorating Guide

Ben Allen (Editor)

Home Offices

Jayne M. Pelosi

Interior Divine

Tessa Evelegh

House Beautiful Decorating School

Lisa Skolnik

American Country

Chronicle Books

Designer's Guide to Color

Mary Gilliatt

The Decorating Book

Ty Pennington; Travis Thrasher

Life to the Extreme

Molly Hyde English; Linda Svendsen

Camps and Cottages

Karen Rauch Carter

Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life

Leslie Gross

Housewives Guide to Antiques

Francis Donegan

Paint Your Home

M. J. Van Deventer

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