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Embrace mindful decorating and create a comfortable home that is kind to your senses and improves your wellbeing.The Sensory Home will help you to understand whether your home is working for or against you. Layout, colour, texture, scent, lighting and more can be used to create a calming or stimulating environment according to your family's unique needs, including for neurodiverse individuals. This book offers hints and tips as well as long-term solutions to bring your vision of a warm, inviting and harmonious home to life. Chapters covering each room of the house include sensory checklists to help you identify the causes of unconscious stress, whether it be the cluttered kitchen, the dimly lit home office or the unsupportive sofa.

Details Make a Home takes a closer look at the details behind international interiors stylist and art director Hans Blomquist's unique and idiosyncratic take on the world.In hundreds of ravishingly beautiful, inspiring pictures, he encourages the reader to see the world through his own eyes, revealing the possibilities in even the humblest of items and putting together pieces to create striking, painterly, and evocative rooms and displays. Chapter by chapter, Hans focuses on and discusses the key ingredients of his distinctive look: Nature, Texture, Color, Textiles, Collecting, and Display. He explains the creative process, offers up his own treasures, and puts inspiring ideas for beautiful interiors within every reader's reach.

Christina Strutt of Cabbages & Roses reveals how to have a calmer, healthier, eco-friendly home.

Revised and expanded edition of the complete guide to making your own canoe paddles, now with 16 pages of colour photographs.

Just as The Home Edit Life reassuringly told us that it's OK to own things, Stay Organized promises that it's OK to create a mess. When your systems are working, you'll be able to clean them up within 15 minutes. And as we've all learned over the last few years, maintenance is self-care. Our homes are critical to our mental health. When your systems work, you have more bandwidth. You don't have to start from a maxed-out place. Above all else, move forward feeling calm, collected, and confidently organized -with humor, relatability, and beautiful imagery.Stay Organized covers all kinds of topics related to maintenance, showing readers actionable ways to create systems in their own homes that will be easy to maintain for long-term success. Topics include: - How to get your household on board- Sharing spaces effectively- Household schedules- Maintenance as self-care- Inventory checklists- Checking in with your systems- Staying on top of incoming and outgoing items- Low-bar lifestyle goals for each space

You embraced hygge and mastered konmari; now meet Dostadning, or death cleaning: the Scandinavian art of shedding unnecessary things to make our lives as joyful as possible, at any age

An inspiring full-colour, fully illustrated guide to curating your life and home from bestselling tidiness guru Marie Kondo.

The golden era of industrial design that revolutionized home appliances.The fascinating world of product design that emerged between the 1960s and 1980s symbolized the birth of a new age and human behav- ior. From coffee grinders to fondue sets to hairdryers, each home appliance was intended to help in the daily household routines-but they were also masterpieces of style.Based on Jaro Gielens's collection, one of the largest in the world, Soft Electronics explores a nostalgic and unique set of prod- ucts from a very distinct time for design. Each object possesses a sense of longevity, quality, and innovation-one that has been hard to match since manufacturing was moved overseas and planned obsolescence redefined our relationship with electronic goods. Soft Electronics pays homage to an iconic era of design.

Keep organized from January to December with the 2021 - 2025 5-Year Monthly Planner. It measures 8.5 x 11 inches, is available in hardcover, and provides:60 months of planning pagesTwo-page monthly spreads that include past month, current month, and future month calendar blocks for quick referenceEach square measures 1.5 x 1.8 inchesMade in the U.S.A.

John Whelan unlocks the fascinating secrets of an almost lost art: wooden planemaking. For those curious about the ingenious ways of the craft, this book lays out clear, step-by-step instructions that will enable any woodworker to make a plane. Each chapter (covering 20 different types of planes and spokeshaves) is fully illustrated by the author''s line drawings. In addition, there are chapters on the history and alternative methods of planemaking, making plane irons, and the tuning and using of wooden planes. Every chapter that details the construction of a particular plane starts with a photograph of the plane that has been made by the author. As you would expect from Mr. Whelan, this book is the finest and most complete work on the making of wooden planes in print. The reader will enjoy it even if he never puts blade to wood. Should he make a plane or two, he will find Making Traditional Wooden Planes most satisfying

Award-winning interiors blogger Abi Dare of These Four Walls reveals a softer, more relaxed approach to minimalism that will enhance your wellbeing and simplify your home.

The Joinery Compendium ist eine Sammlung mit über 400 handwerklich hergestellten Holzverbindungen aus aller Welt. Die einzigartige Zusammenstellung gibt Einblicke in die faszinierende Vielfalt dieser Verbindungen, ihrer Geschichte und Anwendung.In einer Zeit, in der die Sensibilität für bestehende Bausubstanzen und Holzkonstruktionen wächst, erlangen historische und einfache Bautechniken eine neue Relevanz. Holz findet nicht nur im Bauwesen und Möbelbau Anwendung, sondern auch vermehrt in nachhaltigen Produkten, denn Holzverbindungen ohne Nägel oder Klebstoff dienen der Inspiration für Reparaturfähigkeit und Lebenszyklusbetrachtung. Die Einleitung des Buches bietet grundlegendes Wissen über Holz und traditionelle Handwerkzeuge. Ein illustriertes Regelwerk zur Benennung der Verbindungen leitet zum Hauptteil über. Jede Verbindung wird durch einen Steckbrief mit axonometrischen und plangraphischen Zeichnungen, sowie einer Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung für ihre Herstellung präsentiert. Die vereinfachte graphische Darstellung mit viel Weißraum ermöglicht das Hinzufügen von Maßverhältnissen und Notizen im eigenen Schaf- fensprozess. Am Ende des Buches ermöglicht ein illustriertes Glossar eine Vergleichbarkeit in Gestaltungsprozessen und erleichtert gleichzeitig den Zugang zu digitalen Suchplattformen. Die Terminologie ist in Deutsch, Englisch und Japanisch verfügbar.The Joinery Compendium bietet eine leicht verständliche Übersicht durch sprachneutrale Illustrationen, welche eine zeitgenössische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema fördert und die Leidenschaft für traditionelle Holzverbindungen wecken soll.

Featuring the very garments from the latest show, alongside much-loved favourites from over the years, from showstoppers to wardrobe staples, this book is packed with expert advice from contestants from over the years and helpful tips for dressmaking. From simple tees to stand-out clothing, aspiring crafters will have everything they need to create the perfect outfit for any occasion.

A modern and practical guide to floristry, this is a project-based book featuring 10 seasonal, sustainable flower arranging projects. Including beautiful photography that demystifies the floristry process in Milli Proust's unique style, learn how to play with colour and texture and style flowers with confidence. The projects will take you through the seasons as they inspire you to bring more nature into your life.

Who doesn't long for a little more romance in their home? The kind that makes your heart feel at ease when you walk inside and close the door on our fast-paced world.

A fascinating glimpse into the evocative, eclectic and carefully curated homes of artists, designers and other creatives.

Color Confidence will demystify the technical world of color, as it helps empower you to live a happier and more colorful life.  Including a blend of everything from identifying your perfect palette, to creating a harmonious colour scheme and accessorising to achieve that perfect color ratio, this book will show you how to use color to transform your life. Get inspired with expert tips and tricks to create a home that truly reflects your personality. Discover how color can impact your space and mood. Jess will show you how to embrace darker tones, find the perfect white, and demonstrate how to successfully bring a cohesive look together; whether that is pastels, neutrals, earth tones or even brights – find your color confidence whatever your style.

In her second book, Lucy Hunter invites us to join her on a personal journey to the places and spaces that she loves best, and which inspire her work as a floral artist and garden designer.