Packed with more than 700 incredible photographs, Kitchens &amp; Baths provides literally hundreds of creative ideas for design and construction in two special areas of the home: kitchens and bathrooms. A part of the brand-new Good Ideas Series, a collection of guides for enhancing the home, Kitchens &amp; Baths offers dozens of real-life solutions for small surface areas: adding light, color combinations, changing locations, and more. Hundreds of sketches, drawings, and plans-all real ideas from real designers-offer comprehensive solutions to a variety of difficult situations. Many of these featured designs are taken from existing kitchens and bathrooms that are brand-new or have been successfully transformed into attractive, useful, contemporary spaces. Plus, this enormous reference also includes complete contact information for each featured manufacturer and designer.

Kitchens and Baths (Good Ideas)

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Publications, Loft

Architecture

Watson/Guptill

A photographic collection of stylish, functional, and sustainable design ideas for your newor oldbathroom. The bathroomone of the most private and essential rooms in your houseshould be designed with care, love, and efficiency. And why shouldn’t you give this intimate space that you use every day with modern, stylish, and sustainable design ideals? Modern Bathrooms is a gorgeous full-color home design and photography reference book that catalogs more than 200 unique bathroom design ideas that will completely transform your bathroom’s aesthetic. The book’s 500 and more photographs are categorized into six design themes to suit your particular needsnatural, smart, luxury, space-efficient, bare-essential, and open and ensuite bathrooms. Browse and get ideas to use materials like ceramic, resin, or pine to create a natural sensuality; redesign a green bathroom to save water, introduce a freestanding bathtub; organize spaces with shelves and cabinets; adopt a minimalist and monochromatic style; or integrate the bathroom into the bedroom. Prefaced by write-ups in eight different languages, Modern Bathrooms is a survey of modern bathroom designs that offers a wealth of ideas and inspirations to help anyone who is short on ideas for their new bathroom. Compact, comprehensive, and beautiful, this book is an essential starting point to jumpstart your design and redecoration process.

Modern Bathrooms

Skyhorse

See the beauty of outdoor spaces that can be created in your own home. In Terraces, Balconies, Roof Gardens &amp; Patios, unique and interesting concepts on arranging and styling individual outdoor areas are introduced. By combining architecture, plants, or lively water elements, such as fountains, pools, and ponds, terraces, gardens, and balconies become beautiful and relaxing resting places that also serve as additional living spaces. This book shows more than one hundred amazing ways to style and design your outdoor areas, giving you inspiration for when you finally take the plunge into redecorating. You can also just enjoy the beautiful photographs that showcase exceptional outdoor design ideas you may never have the chance to experience firsthand. Terraces, Balconies, Roof Gardens &amp; Patios is a book that will give you styling tips to captivate your guests; many of the outdoor spaces showcased are simply one of a kind.

Terraces, Balconies, Roof Gardens & Patios

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Wood is one of the original construction materials, used by the earliest civilizations for its strength, availability, and beauty. But, as other materials were discovered, wood became less and less fashionable, to the point where many modern homes only use wood for the frame of the house and often not even for that. Recently, however, wood is making a comeback as a premiere building material. Now, architects and designers are once again using wood for construction because of its infinite applications for interior and exterior design. It is also an eco-friendly material, and new building codes even allow for the use of recycled wood. Living with Wood offers hundreds of photographs and floor plans of beautiful wood homes across the world. The homes depicted use wood to blend into the environment and not disrupt the natural scenery. Additionally, the interiors of the homes are styled using handcrafted wood furniture that adds to the unique ambiance created by using one of nature’s greatest resources.

Living with Wood

With the increasing difficulty of getting off the grid’ in today’s fast-paced world, the home remains sacred. Choosing the lifestyle of a mini home allows occupants to downsize, save money, and live more sustainablywithout sacrificing style. Mini Homes presents a wildly unique selection of mini homes in a variety of locations: on the water, embedded in a hillside, or in a forest surrounded by fauna. It can be challenging for architects and homeowners alike to create and fill the homiest space possible. Complete with floor plans and both interior and exterior photographs of each house, this book is sure to spark your creativity. Showcasing some of the world’s most innovative, efficient home designs, Mini Homes is a perfect addition to any homeowner or aspiring homeowner’s bookshelf, as well as anyone with a keen appreciation for innovative architecture and current trends in home construction. Each project included in this book is a source of inspiration for those seeking to get the most out of a limited space or small plot of land, and also for those who are on a tight budget but refuse to relinquish the dream of having their own tailor-made home.

Mini Homes

Sustainable Living

Innovative architects strive to reinvent the country house and develop a new rural architecture rather than simply remodeling or recreating traditional forms and techniques. The design process involves the transfer of an urban design consciousness out of the cities into rugged environments. The resulting homes can be described as simple and practical, but most importantly, as a type of construction that is often an impressive balance between a natural setting and modern architecture. Complete with floor plans, diagrams, and hundreds of interior and exterior photographs, you will learn how to make the most of both your living space and nature together. This book is not just for country home owners, but for anyone seeking a quick escape. Modern Country Homes will without a doubt inspire you to take on home projects of your own—and maybe even make a trip out to the country.

Modern Country Homes

Self-Help

Beautiful designs that will change the way you envision your own apartment.  As the world continues to become a more crowded space, our living spaces continue to shrink and more of us are moving into smaller and smaller apartments. While this may have always been the norm in cities like New York, for many of us, these cramped living quarters can be quite discouraging.  Small Apartment Inspirations offers hundreds of reasons not to fear these smaller accommodations, showing you how to take a small apartment and use it to its fullest potential. The hundreds of pictures within will inspire you to transform your cramped quarters into a spacious home, with examples like foldaway beds that open up your bedroom for daytime living, built-in storage that allows you to use space efficiently, and lofts that almost give you another room. Whether you are already living in a cramped and cluttered apartment or are about to move into one, the beautiful photographs in this book will help you transform your small space into a wonderful home!

Small Apartment Inspirations

The essential visual guide to the global phenomenon of graffiti and street art. With over one thousand works and fifty street artists, Street Art provides an extensive sampling of the latest trends in the world of street art and graffiti. A visual catalogue with an illustrative selection of the avalanche of talent inundating today’s streets in major cities all over the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, and Paris, Street Art includes sections on 3-D, wild style, tags, stencils, and stickers, giving a comprehensive overview of the different types of street art that are predominant in today’s urban landscape. In the pages of this book the reader will find the starting point for street art of the second decade of the twenty-first century, a melting pot of creativity, originality, color, shape, and texture that seemingly emerges directly from the pavement. The best street art represents the cutting edge of modern artistic vision, fleeting works of art that often mix vibrant colors, unconventional techniques, and, increasingly, political commentary. The 504 pages within showcase sheer talent, expressed without restraint, and a self-taught and above all completely free artistic aesthetic. Street Art, in short, is the art of the future.

Street Art

History & Criticism

An in-depth look at cutting-edge and modern home designs from around the world. Building a home bridges the individual vision of the owner with the physical realization of his needs. It’s a challenging task for all architects, who work to fulfill the requirements and wishes of the future owner within the finite space in which they have to build. Modern Houses illustrates breathtaking examples of cutting-edge architecture. Inside are nearly sixty examples of what creative architects around the globe can do when playing off the expectations of conventional ideas regarding home design. Hundreds of beautiful color photographs illustrate the vision and ingenuity of these spectacular lofts, apartments, and homes. These constructions have helped reshape the idea of the modern home and will continue to inspire architects around the world to push their industry towards more daring and original creations. Showcasing the world’s most forward-thinking home designs, Modern Houses is the perfect addition to any homeowner or aspiring homeowner’s bookshelf, as well as anyone with a keen appreciation for innovative architecture and current trends in home construction.

Modern Houses

Stunning examples of contemporary gardens around the world. More and more, gardens are considered an extension of our homes. Whether it is a private garden or a park in a city, properly planning the individual parts of the final product is an absolute necessity. From the list of plants to the strategic importance of layout and other elements (including furniture, lighting, and accessories), creating an exciting and inspiring aesthetic requires good organization and preparation if one is to take full advantage of what the outdoors has to offer. This book presents a selection of green spaces that surround us, beginning with our homes and extending to vegetated spaces that form part of our cities. Gardens, terraces, balconies, courtyards, parks, plazas, avenues, and vegetated buildings are some of the examples presented to inspire and motivate the reader to adapt the ideas within these pages to their own homes and backyards. Hundreds of full-color images showcase a wide variety of gardening methods and aesthetic tastes, and the advice offered will help you to design your own garden and encourage you to think of the idea of a garden in new ways. Without a doubt, the examples included in this book are an invaluable guide to appreciate the beautiful green spaces all around us. Learning to value our immediate environment is the best assurance for a sustainable future whether we live in the countryside or city. Modern Garden Design is a wonderful addition to the bookshelf of all gardeners as well as anyone who appreciates the beauty that nature has to offer.

Modern Garden Design

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