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Greetings From Savannah

Greetings From Savannah

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2006
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Called "The Forest City" and "The Paris of the South", the city of Savannah Georgia is well-known throughout the South for its beautiful squares and parks, its magnificent architecture, and fascinating history. Over 250 vintage hand-tinted postcards will transport readers back into Savannah's past to a time when the city was a booming tourist and industry made a popular destination for travelers from around the world. Gaze at graceful Southern mansions, sprawling avenues, the imposing buildings of the cotton trade, and the moss-draped oak trees that have made Savannah known the world over as a city of elegance and beauty. Approximate dating and values will aide collectors in building their own collections of these wonderful images.
Outdoor Rooms

Outdoor Rooms

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2006
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This is the ultimate guide to creating an outdoor oasis in your very own backyard. Hundreds of images illustrate creative ideas for turning a simple lawn into a fresh-air room. Topics covered include using landscaping to create "walls" and a sense of space. Design possibilities of wood, poured concrete, brick, tile, gravel, natural stone, and concrete pavers are explored. Consider decorating loggias, patios, courtyards, covered porches, decks, lanais, and rooftops, as well as temporary structures. Learn how to furnish an outdoor room. A large section on outdoor kitchens provides ideas for outdoor design's hottest trend. Designers, contractors, architects, and homeowners will love the multitude of ideas for fashioning amazing outdoor spaces.
Artisan Crafted Timber Frame Homes

Artisan Crafted Timber Frame Homes

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2006
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Explore more than 25 finely crafted timber frame homes, inside and out. Guided by floor plans, this photographic journey takes you from an overall look at the exteriors of stately, custom-built homes, through the interiors. Whether designed to be warm and cozy, or awesome and impressive, these homes are inspiring. Pass through inviting foyers to the private worlds of timber-frame home owners. The tours include towering great rooms, dream kitchens, dens and family rooms, and the inner sanctums of master suites. Enjoy views of the open construction possible with timber frame design while perched in the loft, or gaze up the length of a two-story stone chimney. Additionally, examples of a pool house, office, barn, and workshop provide ideas for other areas where the art of post and beam can be incorporated into your property.
Building Outdoor Environments with Retaining Walls

Building Outdoor Environments with Retaining Walls

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2006
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A beautiful gallery of luscious backyards and exquisite entryways will inspire you to terrace and sculpt your lawn. Step-by-step instructions will walk you through the process of creating these showpieces using concrete products widely available on today's landscaping market. Over 250 color images display outdoor kitchens, front entry courtyards, water features, patio settings, flower beds, and raised seating that provide curb appeal and creature comforts to the residential environment. The potential for enhancing and reshaping the landscape is as limitless as the imagination, and this book serves as an excellent launching point. Simple, clear graphics clarify the process of retaining wall construction, making it a wonderful tool for training and inspiring amateur and professional landscapers alike.
Hardscaping with Decorative Concrete

Hardscaping with Decorative Concrete

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2007
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For those uninitiated into the 21st century world of concrete, this book will serve as a real eye-opener. For those in the concrete, landscaping, and interior design industries, this is a beautiful portfolio of the possible. More than 200 sumptuous color images take you on a journey into the ever-evolving world of decorative concrete. Explore techniques that recreate favorite paving options for hardscaping projects around the pool, patio, driveway and entryway and walkways, as well as the broad palette of color and textures available. This book is packed with ideas for adding curb appeal to the front of your home, and luxury and easy maintenance beauty to the backyard. Explore hundreds of properties from the comfort of an easy chair, while planning your value-enhancing home improvements.
New England Architecture

New England Architecture

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2007
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The best examples of historic New England architecture, sketched and photographed by artist Wallace Nutting. Popular artist Wallace Nutting traveled throughout New England and the United States giving lectures as minister, photographer, author, furniture maker, collector and antiquarian. Born in Rockbottom, Massachusetts, in 1861 and buried in Augusta Maine in 1941, Nutting left an amazing legacy of hand-tinted photography and published books, as well as furniture highly coveted by collectors. For the first time, Wallace's lavishly illustrated series of "Beautiful" books on his beloved New England states, have been combed for the best examples of historic architecture, sketched and photographed by Nutting in his effort to preserve these structures for future generations. Nutting's interior and exterior images of historic buildings, homes, and garden structures throughout the New England states are portrayed within these pages. In addition to beautiful exterior profiles, Nutting's explorations reveal staircases, fireplaces, entryways, furnished sitting rooms, and even bedchambers as shared with him by friends throughout the country. Important landmarks shown include popular inns, churches, and notable residences, as well as the picturesque barns and rural landscapes which have made Nutting's work such treasured keepsakes.
Half-Timber Architecture

Half-Timber Architecture

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2007
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An assembly of historic images of half-timbered buildings from across Northern Europe, ranging from humble cottages to turreted estate houses. Enjoy an amazing assembly of historic images of half-timbered buildings from across Northern Europe. These striking, two-tone buildings range from humble cottages to turreted estate houses. More than 250 real photo and hand-tinted Victorian-era postcards provide countless opportunities to study the decorative applications of original, exposed woodwork, as well as historically-acurate roof gable angles, jetties, dormers, turrets, windows, doorways, and much more. Detailed drawings help illustrate the framing and decorative details, from mullioned windows to ornate chimneys and wainscoted walls, and some interior photography and illustration has been unearthed. This incredible collection helps to define the beauty of authentic timber-framed structures and personify the architectural traditions that inspired the Tudor Revival and Stick Style movements in the United States, and continues in appeal for today's custom-home builder.
Greetings from Cape May

Greetings from Cape May

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2007
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Historic postcards take you on an eye-candy tour of Cape May's past. Hand-colored images portray bonneted ladies in long dresses treading the boardwalk, and the great Victorian hotels where they stayed. Hand-tinted photography dating back one hundred years opens an keyhole to the past, when the streets were still paved with sand and traversed by horse and carriage. An extensive collection of images portrays the U.S. Naval Training Station. Photo chromes further trace the development of the Washington Street Mall, the restoration of the Emlen Mansion, the sinking of the Atlantus off the point, and the transformation of the Convention Center. Imagery and text trace this wonderful town's story, from nostalgic, sepia-toned past through its renaissance as one of East Coast's most popular, and distinctive historic resort towns.
Mexican Style, Sustainable

Mexican Style, Sustainable

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2007
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Take a visually rich tour through a burgeoning community on Mexico's Baja Penninsula, and learn how the dream of visionaries is shaping the community of Loreto Bay as a model for the future. Indigenous materials and culture are helping to shape the physical makeup of this new resort community near Loreto, and the city's inhabitants are reaping the benefits of development dollars. What is being imported is an exciting vision of a sustainable future, a shared goal of community, and a love of place. That place is wonderfully illustrated here, from the colorful adobe architecture and Spanish mission furnishings, to the scenes presented by the white sands of the Sea of Cortez and the fertile desert beyond.
Geisha Fan Book

Geisha Fan Book

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2007
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Enjoy an incredible collection of 128 images showing the fleeting, effervescent beauty of young geisha apprentices captured over a century ago. This keepsake, fan-shaped book captures a moment now lost to history, when Japanese girls were indentured as young as 6. Dressed like dolls, they were paraded through parties and celebrated for their beauty, charm, and innocence, all the while learning the music, dance, conversational, and gaming skills expected in a master of their craft. Here is a wonderful opportunity to see these girls in the glory of their colorful regalia, posing before a newly introduced invention, the camera. This treasury of hand-tinted postcard and real-photo images is a unique book you will treasure forever.
Picture Perfect Pools

Picture Perfect Pools

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2007
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Choose a picture-perfect pool to complement your landscape. Home design can be as easy as browsing through this collection of 200 pools from some of the world’s top builders. This book presents a broad range of pool designs, from garden-like settings to integrated outdoor living areas. You will find hundres of ideas for: • Fountains, spas, and fire • Bridges and decorative additions • Landscaping and hardscaping designs • Edge treatments The swimming pool has never been more alluring! Find your picture perfect pool!
Best of Today's Kitchen Design

Best of Today's Kitchen Design

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2007
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You will simply be blown away by the beauty of the hundreds of kitchens represented in this book. Leading designers and manufacturers share their best work in this compendium of extraordinary designs. More than 300 full-color images afford you the chance to study details for your own kitchen design projects, from cabinetry features and appliances, to color schemes, accessories, and overall room arrangement. All styles and schools of design are represented, from contemporary to traditional, from Southwestern to Old World. This is the most comprehensive portfolio book published on kitchen design in years, and an absolute bargain for those seeking inspiration from high-end designers. There is simply no other book on the market that offers readers this opportunity to tour hundreds of kitchens, all in one sitting.
Tile Style for the Home

Tile Style for the Home

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2007
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This book illustrates almost 500 contemporary tile projects, with thousands of ideas for illuminating a home with the beauty of tile. Take an exciting look at rooms lined with colorful and textural tile. Contemporary kitchens and baths, as well as living rooms, fireplaces, home spas, gyms, theaters, dining areas, and even outdoor rooms that feature tiles are illustrated in brilliant color. Durable, low-maintance, and easy-clean tile is a wonderful solution for anyone seeking to go beyond the ordinary in their interior design.
Wine Cellar Design

Wine Cellar Design

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2007
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A visual guide to designing functional and stylish wine cellars. A wine cellar is becoming a standard feature of today’s luxury homes. The ability to invest in fine wines, to age them properly, and to have them on hand for entertaining is a luxury more people can afford. Wine Cellar Design is packed with ideas and technical information for designing safe, stylish, beautiful wine cellars. Over 300 images of wine cellars immerse you into the stylish and impressive world of today’s vintage connoisseur. Additional essays by leading designers, and a section detailing the proper construction of a wine cellar, make this an invaluable reference.
Showhouse Review

Showhouse Review

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2007
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Travel coast to coast and witness many of the country's premier decorator events. Though decorator showhouses are open to the public for a few weeks, these masterpieces are now preserved for your endless perusal. Showhouses let decorators pull out all the stops to show off their talents and resources. The organizers, notable charity organizations, reap significant revenue because people simply flock in. Homeowners and decorators come in droves to see all the wonderful ideas, paying upwards of $20 per ticket. This book offers admission to over 30 different events and highlights the work of over 150 designers featured in glorious color. Enjoy your tour!
Casting Concrete Countertops

Casting Concrete Countertops

Tina Skinner; Doug Bannister

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2007
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Finally there is a simple book for do-it-yourselfers who want to undertake a small countertop project. Follow several countertops projects step-by-step through the process of molding, pour, and finishing. Projects include cast-in-place, pre-cast, and hand-packed. Doug Bannister demonstrates time-tested techniques and his break-through formulas for countertops that set up fast and stand up to quick finishing, installation, and long-term use. Years of experience can translate into a weekend project, like the kitchen and bathroom vanity projects illustrated in this wonderful, long-awaited book. The text and captions are presented in both Spanish and English.
Sand Casting Concrete

Sand Casting Concrete

Tina Skinner; Bo Atkinson; Jeff Snyder

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2008
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Do you enjoy making sandcastles? Do your mashed potatoes become fine art before you eat them? If you enjoy working with your hands and being outdoors, you'll love sand-casting with concrete. Veteran concrete creator Bo Atkinson shares his passion and experience in this wonderful step-by-step pictorial. Starting with a pile of sand, a pile of gravel, some water, cement, and reinforcement, he demonstrates how simple it can be to create anything you fancy from concrete. His projects include a fairy lantern, a birdbath, a toadstool seat, a bench, and even a small footbridge.
Cedar Style

Cedar Style

Tina Skinner; Roger Wade

RED Feather
2008
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Take a tour of high-end log homes in this inspiring compendium. Photographer Roger Wade focuses on the finer features of 25 very fine log homes found throughout the United States. More than 200 full-color photographs and detailed floor plans act as a guide in negotiating these exquisitely designed, expansive residences. Charming as only a wooden home can be, these images will inspire you to plan and design a future log house of your own.
The Spa Bath

The Spa Bath

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2008
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Today's top homes include spa-scale, master bath suites that serve up far more than the traditional 10-minute morning routine. Luxury bath suites include whirlpool tubs, multi-faceted showers, soaking tubs, and, above all, space. Tremendous attention is being lavished on the design of baths where you'll want to linger . When you do leave, you feel more relaxed, beautiful, and prepared for the world than when you entered. A tour through these pages, filled with over 300 color images, will inspire designers and homeowners setting out to create their own in-home spas.
The Best of Today's Log Homes

The Best of Today's Log Homes

Tina Skinner

Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2008
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Here's a wonderful opportunity to tour 28 beautiful log homes without leaving your own home. Sumptuous photographs bring the houses to life, while floor plans act as your guide to every part of the home. This is a guide for anyone who dreams of building a log home, with hundreds of ideas to sift through. These are real homes, chosen for their outstanding designs, tasteful decoration, and real-life, lived-in practicality.