Quick makeovers to transform your home, from 2 hours to 2 days. This collection of 12 complete room schemes, including a Mexican dining room, American East Coast bathroom, and Tuscan hallway is the perfect combination of visual inspiration and practical know-how to transform the home. From gathering the colors, textures and decorative details that define a particular style, to simple step-by-step projects, you can re-create the look you want with ease.
“Packed with a variety of home-decorating projects to get crafters and do-it-yourselfers inspired....Colvin starts with simple projects that require only a little time. Clearly written instructions are included; it’s well illustrated with color photographs...recommended for large public libraries.”—Library Journal.
Quick makeovers to transform your home, from 2 hours to 2 days. This collection of 12 complete room schemes, including a Mexican dining room, American East Coast bathroom, and Tuscan hallway is the perfect combination of visual inspiration and practical know-how to transform the home. From gathering the colors, textures and decorative details that define a particular style, to simple step-by-step projects, you can re-create the look you want with ease.
This volume is the first in-depth study of the French novelist Marguerite Yourcenar’s fiction to contend that the author’s texts exhibit in unexpected ways numerous characteristics of the neobaroque. This subversive, postmodern aesthetic privileges extravagant artistic play, flux, and heterogeneity. In demonstrating the affinity of Yourcenar’s texts with the neobaroque, the author of this study casts doubt on their presumed transparency and stability, qualities associated with the French neoclassical tradition of the past century, where the Yourcenarian œuvre is most often placed. Yourcenar’s election to the prestigious, tradition-bound French Academy in 1981 as its first female “immortal” cemented her already well-established niche in the twentieth-century French literary pantheon. A self-taught classicist, historian, and modern-day French moralist, Yourcenar has been praised for her polished, “classical” style and analyzed for her use of myth and universal themes. While those factors at first seem to justify amply the neoclassical label by which Yourcenar is most widely recognized, this study’s close reading of four of her fictions reveals instead the texts’ opacity and subversive resistance to closure, their rejection of stable interpretations, and their deconstruction of postmodern Grand Narratives. Theirs is a neobaroque “logic,” which stresses the absence of theoretical assurances and the limitations of reason. The coincidence of the new millennium — which in so many ways reflects Yourcenar’s disquieting vision — and her centenary in 2003 affords not so much an excuse to reject the author’s neoclassical label, but rather the obligation to reassess it in light of contemporary discourses. This study will be of interest to students of twentieth-century French fiction and comparative literature, especially that of the latter half of the twentieth century.
Offers advice on the use of fabrics in interior decoration and explains how to sew curtains, slipcovers, cushions, bedspreads, and other home furnishings.
Create stylish accessories and stunning decorative effects in your home with these simple, time-saving, cost-effective approaches. Packed with more than forty new ideas to turn everyday junk into treasures, each project lists the amount of time needed from inception to completion. Make a lampshade using photocopied sheet music in less than an hour or completely make over your bathroom in just a weekend. A variety of decorating tips, including paint finish, trompe l'oeil, stenciling, and decoupage, are accompanied by full-color photographs and illustrations to help you along the way. Arrange a beautiful bouquet of flowers, handpaint and glaze your terracotta ware, or woodgrain and stencil an old tabletop. Whatever your level of experience, bring out the ultimate home decorator in you with the secrets revealed in this handy reference.
An instructional guide to interior design that explains how to decorate a home by using a wide range of coordinating fabrics, wallpapers, and other home furnishings
Many people approach home decorating with trepidation, worried about the time and expense it may consume. This guide takes a more simple and time-saving approach.
The work in hand records tombstone inscriptions in 150 cemeteries, thirty-three church cemeteries, and some half-dozen proprietary cemeteries, resulting in the enumeration of perhaps as many as three thousand Orange County inhabitants, giving dates of birth and death and frequently specifying family relationships. To keep the data within practical limits, the author recorded the inscriptions of persons who either died before 1900 or were born before 1850.
An “engrossing” novel following three women as they confront the darkness and danger of their world, by the author of The Radiant Way (People). Sweeping from smart London townhouses to a rundown embassy in the Middle East, from the splendors of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to drowsy afternoons in the hills of sunny Italy, this novel tells the intertwined stories of three Cambridge-educated women living in Margaret Thatcher’s England. Whether it is a conscientious social worker’s quest to befriend a convicted killer; an affair with a stranger after a husband’s suicide; or an attempt to rescue a friend who’s been kidnapped by terrorists, this is a novel rich with dramatic events and deeply intriguing characters who find the courage to persevere through trying times, in the hopes of finding some sort of justice and truth. “[Drabble] invites us to see beyond the filth and horror of modern life to the world of possibilities in our own lives, where we also have the power to write our own endings.” —Winnipeg Free Press “The diverse plotlines develop amidst an abundance of social detail about 1980s Britain, providing a rich and fascinating texture. A winner.” —Library Journal
Many historic houses that open to the public in England and Wales - particularly those owned by the National Trust - preserve their contents rather than restore them to a particular period. The former owners of these houses often retained objects from various periods and this layering of history produces interiors that look aged and patinated. Although the reason for this preservation and lack of fashionable renewable can be attributed to declining economic fortunes in the twentieth century, there are many examples of families practising this method of homemaking over a much longer period. Taking National Trust properties as its central focus, this book examines three interlocking themes to examine the role of historic textiles. Firstly it looks at houses with preserved contents together with the reasons for individual families choosing this lifestyle; secondly the role of the National Trust as both guardian and interpreter of these houses and their collections; and finally, and most importantly, the influence of textiles to contribute to the appearance of interiors, and their physical attributes that carry historical resonances of the past. The importance of preserved textiles in establishing the visual character of historic houses is a neglected area and therefore the prominence given to textiles in this project constitutes an original contribution to the study of these houses. Drawing upon a range of primary sources, including literature produced by the National Trust for their sites, and documentary sources for the families and their houses (such as diaries, letters and household accounts), the study takes a broad approach that will be of interest to all those with an interest in material culture, heritage, collecting studies and cultural history.
Argues that people who promote the legalization of euthanasia ignore the vast ethical, legal and social differences between euthanasia and natural death. Permitting euthanasia, Somerville demonstrates, would cause irreparable harm to respect for human life and society." --Cover.
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