Creating a garden room is easy when you collaborate with nature. The garden presents imagery that gives life to wallpaper, lamps, carpets and fabrics. In Garden Rooms, the first book in the Chatelaine Home Décor series, you’ll find everything you need to create that summer feeling all year long: decorating know-how, inspired colors, easy do-it-yourself projects and more. Choose a color palette from the drifts of soft shades swirling through a perennial border or the brilliance of several fiery hot-colored flowers growing close together. Garden Rooms is about flowers, botanical prints and floral cushions. But it’s also about magic and mood, romance and warmth and how to achieve all those qualities in your home – indoors and out.

Garden Rooms: Nature-Inspired Decorating Indoors and Out

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Chatelaine

Mackie, Joan

Crafts & Hobbies

MCCLELLAND STEWART

In a world where trends in decorating, like clothing, come and go, classic style is never passé. Classics hold their own for decades, even centuries, because of their enduring beauty and timeless charm. Classic Chic, the third book in the Chatelaine Home Décor series, will show you how to decorate classic rooms with a little pizzazz, so that your home won’t be left with the “museum look” – a pitfall of classic decorating. Here is information on what periods combine well, on how to put together certain colours, textures, and materials, and on scale, size, and proportion. With Classic Chic, you’ll be able to pull together a home that appears to have evolved over a long period – without spending a fortune on antiques. Classic Chic offers a myriad of inspiring ideas, with more than 30 do-it-yourself projects, including: how to wainscot a room, how to refinish antiques, and how to create a room-divider screen.

Classic Chic: Timeless Decorating that's always in Style (Chatelaine Home Decor)

Soft meets sleek, antiques mingle with contemporary, and personal pleasure combines with comfort in The New Modern, the second book in the Chatelaine Home Décor series. Relaxed, soothing surroundings, concerned with order, flow, and space replace less-is-more minimalism in this New Modern style of decorating. Learn to create these elegantly eclectic rooms by mixing cherished possessions with new-found treasures, combining an attic-stored ottoman with a plastic table or mating mismatched chairs. Here’s a perfect-for-the-times decorating style that has only one prerequisite: you like it. This expression of individual taste and style means homes are easier to decorate, easier to live in, easier to love. The New Modern shows you it can be done.

The New Modern: In Today's Decorating the Magic is in the Mix (Chatelaine Home Decor)

Home Improvement & Design

Soup is one of the most universally popular dishes in the world today. In fact, global soup consumption is estimated at an astounding 250 billion servings a year, most of it homemade. 
 The Best Soup Cookbook, is a definitive collection of recipes for soup lovers everywhere. Featuring over 125 specially selected soups ranging from hearty chowders to delicate consommes, this cookbook provides just the right soup for any occasion. 
 Looking to take the chill off a cold winter's night? Try the classic Scotch Broth with Barley and Lamb or Golden Curried Squash 'n' Apple Soup. For a sweltering summer evening choose from refreshing coolers like Cucumber Buttermilk Soup with Chives or Creamy Avocado Soup with Fresh Tomato and Coriander. For an impressive dinner-party starter try Mushroom Soup with Puff Pastry Dome. If time is short, you'll find a chapter devoted to "jump starts," virtually instant soups that combine fresh and commercially prepared ingredients such as V8 Gazpacho and Cream of Refrigerator Soup. 
 These are soup recipes that you're sure to use again and again. They're easy to make and most can be prepared with ingredients found in your local supermarket.

The Best Soup Cookbook

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Crowley, Marilyn

Main Courses & Side Dishes

Robert Rose

A definitive collection of recipes for soup lovers. 
 The old-fashioned image of a simmering stock pot, bubbling for hours, is seldom seen today. Soup recipes in this book are quick to make and well-suited to modern lifestyles. With easy-to-learn basic knowledge about soup making, anyone can create a wide-ranging variety of soups. 
 Recipes are gathered into the following categories:
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Stocks and Garnishes: Whole Chicken Stock, Court Bouillon, Parmesan Shortbreads </li>
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Garden Soups: Chunky Summer Vegetable Soup with Romano Curls, Roasted Carrot and Onion Soup, Fresh Tomato Soup with Cayenne Mayonnaise </li>
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Chowders: Winter Barley Chowder with Lamb Sausage, Tomato Clam Chowder, Broccoli and Cheese Chowder </li>
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Hearty: Mexican Chili Bean and Corn Soup, Butternut Squash Soup with Toasted Seeds, Lentil Dal Soup </li>
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Fancy: Moroccan Cumin Chicken Soup, Cream of Watercress Soup with Sea Scallops, Seeing-Double Soup </li>
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Coolers: Chilled Curried Carrot Soup, Chili Lime Chicken Soup, Cooling Cucumber Soup with Chives </li>
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 When time is short, the Jump Starts chapter provides virtually instant soups that combine fresh ingredients with pantry staples. A practical section called The Soup Kitchen lists the basic utensils and handy ingredients needed for making great soup anytime and everytime.

125 Best Soup Recipes