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Perfectly Imperfect Home: How to Decorate and Live Well [Kõva köide]

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  • Formaat: Hardback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius: 230x205 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-May-2012
  • Kirjastus: Jacqui Small
  • ISBN-10: 1906417709
  • ISBN-13: 9781906417703
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius: 230x205 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-May-2012
  • Kirjastus: Jacqui Small
  • ISBN-10: 1906417709
  • ISBN-13: 9781906417703
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The Perfectly Imperfect Home is a must-have guide to choosing the 80 essential items you need for furnishing and decorating your home, expertly written by Deborah Needham, founder of Domino magazine.

Featuring original watercolour illustrations of decorators own homes, the book sets out how to select everything from the big stuff (a doted-on bed, a couch that will last generations) to quirky accents (an interesting-looking chair, a mix of textiles on a table). It is often the individual pieces, from chairs to china, mirrors to vases, that help you to express your personality, add style and beauty to a home and make everyone in it feel comfortable, glamorous and well-cared for.

The inspiring design and approachable tone of The Perfectly Imperfect Home puts it a cut above the competition. Witty and wonderful essays and quick-reference sidebars highlight each of the 80 essentials, offering histories, offbeat uses and really useful styling tips.

Decorating a home can be intimidating, but here are 80 essentials that make it manageable and fun.

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Under such cutely entitled concepts as Jollifers and Glamifications, this hands-on style guru gives on-trend advice about lighting, bedmaking and flower arranging. Move over Martha Stewart.  A guide to the essential principals of home decorating...relevant to any size of home or budget. 'like a well worn, favourite pair of comfy slippers. I've been savouring it' Deborah Needleman is a terrific editor - of words, and now, of rooms and living spaces. In her very readable book, "The Perfectly Imperfect Home," the author offers her advice and expertise on a very important subject - how to make your house your home. She includes succinct advice from the great decorators, sage commentary on what to keep and what to throw away, and valuable rules for what to add to a room to make it exactly right - for you and your family.

I used to think that my taste was so irredeemable and so rooted in some kind of male, post-college, National Football League time warp - I own a green velour couch! - that no one, not even Deborah Needleman, could help me. I was wrong.

'like a well worn, favourite pair of comfy slippers. I've been savouring it'

A guide to the essential principals of home decorating...relevant to any size of home or budget.

Under such cutely entitled concepts as Jollifers and Glamifications, this hands-on style guru gives on-trend advice about lighting, bedmaking and flower arranging. Move over Martha Stewart. 

Introduction 13(6)
Nice Lighting
19(14)
Table Lamps
22(5)
Floor Lamps
27(2)
Sconces
29(1)
Hanging Lights
30(3)
A Proper Welcome
33(12)
A Primping Place
37(3)
A Spot to Sit
40(1)
Bins, Bowls, and Baskets
40(3)
Hooks, Hangers, and Hampers
43(2)
Places for Chatting
45(16)
A Deep and Cozy Armchair (or Two)
48(3)
An Upright Chair
51(2)
A Really Good Sofa
53(3)
Little Sofas
56(1)
Stools and Benches
56(3)
A Spare Chair
59(2)
A Bit of Quirk
61(14)
Irreverent Accents
64(2)
Jollifiers
66(2)
Pictures by Children
68(1)
Mollifiers
68(1)
Some Small Animals
69(1)
An Odd Chair
70(1)
Accidental Furniture
71(2)
Something Unexpected
73(2)
Spots for Books, Drinks, & Feet
75(10)
Ottomans
78(1)
Coffee Tables
79(1)
Occasional Tables
80(2)
End Tables
82(3)
Cozifications
85(14)
Throws
88(2)
Textiles
90(3)
Fluffy Cushions
93(1)
Ticking Stripes
94(1)
Checks
95(1)
Florals
95(1)
Log Baskets
96(1)
A Bit of Ugly
97(2)
A Doted-On Bedroom
99(22)
A Big Bed
102(2)
An Upholstered Headboard
104(2)
Excellent Bed Linens
106(2)
Quilts and Coverlets
108(1)
Not Too Many Pillows
109(3)
A Bottom-of-the-Bed Perch
112(3)
The Bedside Table
115(1)
A Bedside Command Center
116(3)
Tissues, Remotes, and Other Useful Things
119(2)
Bath As a Room
121(16)
Chairs and Stools
125(1)
Mirrors and Lamps
126(2)
Tables and Vanities
128(3)
More Bins, Bowls, and Baskets
131(1)
Decent Bath Linens
132(3)
Nice Shower Curtains
135(1)
Pictures on the Wall
135(2)
Glamifications
137(18)
Wallpaper
140(2)
Lacquered Walls
142(3)
Decorative Mirrors
145(3)
Tassels and Fringe
148(1)
Drippy Chandeliers
148(2)
Old-Fashioned Writing Tables
150(2)
A Little Animal Print
152(1)
Shiny Objects
152(3)
Dinners with Friends
155(20)
A Well-Stocked Pantry
158(3)
A Drinks Table
161(2)
Coffee and Tea Service
163(1)
A Dining Table
164(2)
Pretty Table Settings
166(2)
A Stash of Table Linens
168(3)
Candlesticks
171(1)
Cheap Votives
171(1)
Hurricanes
172(1)
Old Silverware
172(3)
A Personal Narrative
175(16)
Books
178(3)
Candid Snapshots
181(2)
Pictures and Ephemera
183(2)
Paintings and Drawings
185(1)
Tablescapes
186(5)
Delicious Scent
191(12)
Delicious-smelling Products
195(1)
Potpourri
196(1)
Scented Candles
197(1)
Flowers
198(3)
Gardeny Plants
201(2)
A Sense of History
203(12)
Ethnic Textiles
206(2)
Pottery and Crafts
208(1)
One Good Antique
208(2)
Faded Rugs
210(2)
Old Things
212(1)
Patina
213(2)
Illustration Index 215(22)
Resources 237(18)
Acknowledgments 255
Deborah Needleman is the Internationally known editor-in-chief and creative mastermind behind Domino magazine - a cultural touchstone that amassed more than a million subscribers in just four years. Now the editor-in-chief of WSJ Magazine, Deborah is a widely published expert on interior design, style, and gardening. Virginia Johnson's illustrations have appeared in books by Kate Spade and on textiles carried in stores such as Liberty, Barneys in New York and Net-a-Porter.