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Homefront: Inside Out: Inspirational Ideas for Your Home and Garden from the BBC TV Series (Home front)

by: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Diarmuid Gavin

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Homefront Inside Out brings together the best designs and ideas from the "Home Front" series. Inside, Laurence transforms the different rooms in your home, while outside, Diarmuid provides ideas for the garden. The boys combine forces to link what's happening inside with what's happening outside.

Arranged in two sections-Inside and Outside-this beautiful book guides you through the process of transforming your home. Inside offers advice on how to find your own style, assess your requirements, and implement changes in your kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, or living room. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's expert interior-design tips and practical advice will help you reinvent even the most uninspiring of spaces. Outside takes you into the garden, with designs and ideas suitable for every space and situation. Whether you're a non-gardening urbanite looking for low-maintenance but stylish solutions or an avid gardener looking to bring changes to your existing garden, designer Diarmuid Gavin will inspire you to step outside and tackle your plot. Both a practical reference book and a source of inspiration, Home Front Inside Out will help you create ideal spaces for the way we live today

Release Date: 12/31/1969

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Changing Rooms: Complete Home Makeover: Simple Ways to Transform Your Home from the Changing Rooms Team

by: BBC Books

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Whether you've recently moved to a new home or would just like to give a fresh look to your décor, deciding on a style and choosing a color scheme can be a daunting task. In Complete Home Makeover, the Changing Rooms team offers a whole range of tips and techniques to get you started, guiding you step-by-step in three easy-to-follow sections-Choose and Change Color, Manage That Makeover, and Try This at Home. Complete Home Makeover also includes inspiring case studies showing you how the professionals put their ideas into practice.

Whether you've recently moved to a new home or would just like to give a fresh look to your décor, deciding on a style and choosing a color scheme can be a daunting task. In Complete Home Makeover, the Changing Rooms team offers a whole range of tips and techniques to get you started, guiding you step-by-step in three easy-to-follow sections. Choose and Change Color shows how different families of colors can be used to optimum effect; Manage That Makeover offers advice on getting started, including tips on budgeting, finding inspiration, and using texture and pattern; and Try This at Home presents 65 fabulous step-by-step projects that are easy to do, look fantastic, and won't cost a fortune-from stenciling a floor to creating slip-on chair covers. Complete Home Makeover also includes inspiring case studies showing you how the professionals put their ideas into practice.

Release Date: 12/31/1969

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Changing Rooms - Trust Me, I'm a Designer

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The title is a quote from star Laurence "the Cuffs" Llewelyn-Bowen himself, and Changing Rooms: Trust Me, I'm a Designer is a "best of" compilation, celebrating more than 100 editions of the popular BBC home makeover show. Although it might imply that the focus is on the designers themselves, despite their larger-than-life personalities what comes through most strongly here is the practicality of actually getting the work done. The question whether anyone other than the designers themselves actually likes the results is as cheerfully up-in-the-air as ever, of course. This compilation scores highly--perhaps higher than the show itself for anyone who's not a fan--because, with so many episodes to choose from and with the opportunity to use some snappy editing, we're spared all the finger-drumming, pacing up and down, and general waffling about, which inevitably takes up a certain amount of time in any individual edition. Instead, we move neatly and quickly between ideas, discussions, and practical considerations in a very un-boring fashion. Of course, there's plenty of fun along the way, such as the absolutely priceless moment when Llewelyn-Bowen nearly convinces "Handy" Andy Kane that he has to board over a swimming pool and create two rooms from the resulting space using only the inevitable MDF (medium-density fiberboard). It's instructive, great fun, and a very neat package of material. --Roger Thomas

"Trust me... I'm a designer!" Many neighbors did... and regretted it. Others had their doubts but were delighted. It's all here: the highs, the lows, the tears and the tantrums that make up the best of Changing Rooms, hosted by Carol Smillie, with personal insights from some of your favorite designers.

Release Date: 03/02/2004

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Changing Rooms: Handy Andy's Weekend Workbook: Step-By-Step Projects from the Hit TV Series

by: Andy Kane, Chris Short

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The irrepressible handyman on the hit TV series Changing Rooms, Handy Andy demonstrates simple ways to improve your home. With over 30 imaginative and inexpensive projects, Andy gives practical solutions for every nook and cranny. Projects include stylish shelving, practical splashbacks, creative curtain rails, beautiful flooring, hidden cupboards, and clever coverings for fireplaces and radiators. Each project is accompanied by step-by-step illustrations, Andy's easy-to-follow instructions, and a full list of all the tools and materials needed to finish the job. Andy also includes simple DIY techniques, putting together a basic tool kit, a glossary of terminology, and sound safety advice.

Release Date: 12/31/1969

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