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At the same time the photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes (The Garden at Highgrove, Great Houses of England and Wales) record a year in the life of the garden, from snowy winter mornings to the garden in springtime, from the extraordinary blaze of colour achieved for the summer garden parties to the autumn tints of its two hundred types of trees. The Garden of Buckingham Palace: An Illustrated History is bound to be the most eagerly awaited gardening title of 2004.

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Creative Holiday Ideas

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In this comprehensive manual Jessica Ridley tells you everything you’ll need to know to create a truly striking and creative doll’s house in a wide variety of styles from American Country to Artist’s Studio, Etruscan to Edwardian, Scottish Baronial to Scandinavian. Working on four facades and nineteen different rooms, she explains how to hand-paint eighteenth-century wallpaper, marbleize floors, wood-grain tables, gild picture-frames, upholster furniture, make miniature food, and much, much more. The step-by step instructions are clearly illustrated with more than 350 close-up full-colour photographs.

Along the way, you will learn how to research authentic decor and how to stretch your powers of ingenuity by making the most of what is available: how, for example, to make chairs from pieces of champagne wire, a thatch roof from mop head, or medieval weapons from cocktail sticks. Both a practical manual and a beautifully illustrated sourcebook, The Decorated Doll’s House offers ideas, instruction, and inspiration in a delightful introduction to the enchanting world of miniature interiors.

Colour has the power to transform our homes – not just the way they look, but the way they feel and the way we live in them.

This brilliant book offers all the know-how and inspiration you need to make colour work for you.

Discover the tricks used by professional designers:
• how to create successful colour combinations
• how to use colour to make a small room look bigger
• how to make a big room cosier
• how to design for different levels of light

With practical tips and inspiring ideas for every room, Understanding Colour at Home will empower you to bring the magic of colour to your home.

All the inspiration and advice you need to design, create, grow and enjoy your garden.

This companion to the bestseller You Can Do It once again pools the world-beating expertise of Thames & Hudson and B&Q.

A brilliantly designed layout and text blend clarity with inspiration on every page. Nine themed garden makeovers have been designed, built and planted specially for this volume, with step-by-step photos and drawings demonstrating each project in a clear, easy-to-follow fashion.

The book addresses and demystifies common garden concerns, and is crammed with tips to help the reader create their ideal garden from first inspiration all the way to month-by-month maintenance. A catalogue of recommended garden plants – all widely available and easy-to-grow – is also included.

Comprehensively combining garden design, DIY and horticulture in one good-looking and authoritative volume, Outdoor Living offers the reader all the knowledge and inspiration they will need to create their perfect outdoor room – and enjoy it to the full.

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The antistyle bible for those who ignore makeover culture, “Living Normally” is an interiors book with a difference. Fifteen inhabitants of ordinary homes are given the chance to air their views on life at home today and to have the world come for a cuppa at their place. The results are a snapshot of Britain today and a refreshing reminder that a home should be a place to escape to; to feel happy in; and to live in.

This affectionately photographed look at our everyday homes is a celebration of nice people, the modern family and our need to surround ourselves with memories and the curious ephemera of daily existence. Meet Evelyn, the lady who came from St Vincent and stayed because she loves the snow. Share some time with Ivy, whose house is full of memories of her children and her beloved Albert, the spoon-playing policeman whom she recently lost.

Enjoy these and all the others in this charming evocation of simple existence.

Color can really make a room come alive—generating the illusion of space, adding brightness, or even dividing it into separate areas. But how can a home decorator use color to best advantage? House Beautiful can help, with a workshop that presents all the essentials: choosing a color scheme, assembling a swatchboard, selecting a precise palette, and troubleshooting. Find out how to use the color wheel, test and develop ideas, create accents that bring a bit of zing to an interior, get great effects with pattern, and combine different shades successfully. Hundreds of photos display gorgeous spaces, and illustrate a variety of ways to work with primary colors, neutral tones, and black and white—along with textured paints and fabulous wallpapers.

In an age of instant gratification, convenience living and superficial makeovers, people don’t have time to garden - let alone wait while their garden matures. This book understand all this and so offers numerous solutions to satisfy our desire for an instant transformation. Choose from the fastest growing plants or the flowers with the most colour and impact, create an instant potted jungle on your balcony, transform your drab yard with modern containers and vivid paint effects, build a romantic rustic arbour, liven up tired concrete slabs with colourful stencilling, divide your lawn with an exotic bamboo screen - these are just a few of the the book’s ideas that should quickly and easily help transform an uninspiring, new or neglected garden.

This gift book brings together watercolors and poetry in celebration of a classically enduring topic - flower symbolism. From the sophistication of a wild orchid’s long leaves and elegant flower to the spontaneity incited by plum blossoms with their thousand petals in tender tones, The Meaning of Flowers is a celebration of the diversity of the natural world. Marrying watercolor, oil, and calligraphy, Fu Ji Tsang offers us an original synthesis of the traditions of East and West, with artistic influences as diverse as Matisse, Monet, and the Chinese master Shitao. Fu Ji Tsang renders bamboo stalks, lotus flowers, olive trees, willows, irises, sunflowers, and peonies in bold brushstrokes and vibrant color. Following the rhythm of the seasons, these flowers and trees are accompanied by poetry from great Chinese writers such as Wang Wei and Western poets including William Shakespeare and Robert Frost, as well as the artist’s personal reflections. The Meaning of Flowers provides true inspiration to artists and nature lovers alike.