Marrying practical living with attractive home design ideas, Sir Terence Conran offers a big, beautiful compendium of expert solutions for today's house or apartment dweller. His vision is an all-new, commonsense approach to making the place you call home a place where you can feel both comfortable and in style. Includes complete instructions and practical information.
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Marrying practical living with attractive home design ideas, Sir Terence Conran offers a big, beautiful compendium of expert solutions for today's house or apartment dweller. His vision is an all-new, commonsense approach to making the place you call home a place where you can feel both comfortable and in style. Includes complete instructions and practical information.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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THE ESSENTIAL HOUSE BOOK lives up to its name,
By Souris "hustler of culture" (Santa Monica, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Essential House Book: Getting Back to Basics (Paperback)
The Essential House Book: Getting Back to Basics is a must have for anyone that ever wanted to live in a home and make it all your own. Once again, the reigning champion of good design and master of style, Sir Terence Conran delivers the crème de la crème of home décor books. Page per page, this book is the most prized in my home design/decorating collection (believe me, I've got a few hundred). Conran offers so many helpful tips and tidbits of information, it's hard not to pull this one off the shelf and reread chapters over again. Chock full of practical solutions and helpful content, amazing photographs (the kind that make you dream for hours) and easy to follow guidance for better living, The Essential House Book lives up to its name. The book is vast with knowledge offering information for all things from flooring to lighting to painting and much more. The pure simple design and thoughtful information has made this book a staple in this genre of books. With so many books out there to choose from, time and again this will surface as the best available regardless of price.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Good inspiration,
By a reader (Wyoming) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Essential House Book: Getting Back to Basics (Paperback)
This book is full of unusual details such as-drawers in staircases and wall niches. Many of the details focused on are what give a house character. I'm designing my own house and it helped me to think above issues rarely addressed in the "how to books". Conran addresses light and space in a very compelling format. There are tons of photos. My only complaint is that with all the photos its hard to go back and find things again.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Inspiring!,
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This review is from: The Essential House Book: Getting Back to Basics (Paperback)
This book is a MUST HAVE for anyone remotely interested in design. Sir Terrance Conran's extensive collection of photographs offer the reader a wealth of inspiration. The examples of placement and design are timelessly beautiful and very effective. You will be amazed at the number of times you can pick this book up and find something new to read about!
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New York, Conran Octopus, Peter Cook, Elizabeth Whiting, Paul Ryan, Richard Bryant, Christian Sarramon, Antoine Bootz, Tim Street-Porter, Camera Press, Scott Lane, Visual Press, Reiner Blunck, Marie Claire Maison, San Francisco, Christopher Alexander, Deborah Weintraub, Deidi Von Schaewen, John Randolph, Paul Warchol, Bruce Tomb, Eric Morin, International Interiors, Nadia Mackenzie, Todd Eberle New!
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New York, Conran Octopus, Peter Cook, Elizabeth Whiting, Paul Ryan, Richard Bryant, Christian Sarramon, Antoine Bootz, Tim Street-Porter, Camera Press, Scott Lane, Visual Press, Reiner Blunck, Marie Claire Maison, San Francisco, Christopher Alexander, Deborah Weintraub, Deidi Von Schaewen, John Randolph, Paul Warchol, Bruce Tomb, Eric Morin, International Interiors, Nadia Mackenzie, Todd Eberle New!
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- South Carolina (Gousha Fastmap) by Don Wood on page 255
- Back to Basics Science 9 10 (Bk.1) by Godfrey Hall in Front Matter
- Centuries of Childhood by Philippe Aries on page 156
- High-Pop: Making Culture into Popular Entertainment by Jim Collins on page 193, and page 198
- FabJob Guide to Become an Interior Decorator (FabJob Guides) by Tag Goulet on page 32
- The Home Renovation Workbook (Home of Your Dreams) by Jain Lemos on page 189
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