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The Portland Cement Association's Guide to Concrete Homebuilding Systems
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Your one-source guide to Concrete-Based Homebuilding Systems. Residential contractors, architects, and developers will welcome this first total guide to the latest concrete-based homebuilding systems (CBHSs). With lumber costs still on the rise after doubling the early '90s, The Portland Cement Association Guide to Concrete Homes, by Peter VanderWerf and W. Keith Munsel, can deliver, durable, cost-efficient, esthetically pleasing alternative building materials and construction methods. It's all spelled out in an authoritative sourcebook that explains and compares the various types of CBHSs and lists special materials and tools for building them--provides case histories of concrete homes already built and in use--and contains data vital to building professionals who want to learn tomorrow's techniques today.
Customer Reviews:
Bang your drum.......2007-03-04
This is as another reviewer stated, "Advertising." Completely unpractical from either an engineer or buildler's point of view. Steer clear.
A great synopsis of professional understanding.......2004-02-14
As we may note upon reading this tome, it is written primarily for one who is articulate with the construction trade. However it is onomonopoetic in its scope. As you read you find yourself absorbing and understanding far more than seems possible. One gets it quickly and is allowed to dream of design possibilities. I love a good book. Learning at an exponential rate is exhilerating.
Just browsing CHS for myself.......2003-09-09
Remember, this book is almost TEN years old because it is based on research done in 1993 and published in '95. So there have been advances and experience that go well beyond this book. Dwell magazine has often tickled me with various new building techniques and I wanted to learn more about what might be appropriate for me and the Midwestern climate. This book will give you an overview of SOME of the styles (mortarless, poured-in-place, etc.), and also indicate what might be appropriate for your situation. I'm not a builder or an architect but I wanted to design my own house, so this book did help me to recognize and comprehend the different catagories of techniques. At the same time, this topic could really use an update that you won't find from the Portland Cement Association. My advice to people like me is to keep looking and seek out small-scale builders who will familiarize you with their technique that they know best. There are dozens, and the most difficult thing is getting a crew that doesn't have to be trained for a new technique but has already completed several homes using a proven method.
This book, even though it is somewhat old will give you a good sense of what to expect from building codes and prices, but it's just not enough, and there are no pretty pictures.
Ugly Duckling........2002-12-17
This book is an Ugly Duckling for now. Hopefully in the future they will put out a new edition with lots of colour photo's to show us what a finished project can look like. It does seem to cover most systems for building concrete structures. It is written for contractors, but with a little work it could be just as well suited for the potential home owner.
For Contractors.......2001-07-24
I bought this book because I am thinking of building my own house. This book is geared toward contractors and not homeowner-builders.
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For would-be hosts and hostesses, entertainer extraordinaire Christopher Lowell shares his secret for unforgettable parties: the perfect marriage of sumptuous, quickly prepared food and festive decor. Using experience culled from his eclectic career as an entertainer, which has included stints in theater, the art world, and classical music, in addition to his critically acclaimed interior design and lifestyle television programs, Christopher Lowell shows anyone how to turn an impromptu get-together, a cozy dinner, or a wedding reception into an absolutely fabulous soirée. With detailed how-to instructions for creating dramatic tablescapes and recipes for super-simple and tasty meals, Christopher Lowell channels his you-can-do-it approach to party planning.
Peppered throughout the book, invaluable entertaining tips and essential shortcuts transform even the most harried person into a party-planning savant. By creating a simple tablescape such as Asian Zen Squared or Crystal Blue Persuasion, you can turn an ordinary meal of Chinese takeout into an extraordinary evening. Christopher Lowell, the Hassle-Free Host is brimming with countless ideas to turn common household objects into sensational party props. For more ambitious hosts who dare to dabble in the kitchen, dozens of delicious recipes, including Chilled Avocado Soup, Grilled Beef Salad, and Frozen Key Lim Pie with Macadamia Nut Crust are perfect for the fussiest guests and are organized into convenient menu options. Made from mostly on-hand ingredients and time-saving convenience foods, the recipes are fast, adaptable for any number of guests, and completely foolproof. Mix and match them with any of the tablescapes, for any kind of party, in any room of the home, for an endless number of combinations.
Christopher Lowell’s expert advice will keep even the most hesitant host hassle-free and make any party fun, relaxing, and festive, no matter what the occasion.
Customer Reviews:
Party Receipes.......2007-08-24
We bought as a gift having been given a copy...some great ideas..we've tried many..all really good.
Amazon did well too..shipped same day it was ordered online.
Great Idea Book.......2007-03-29
This is a fantasitic, "how to" book on setting a colorful, creative and imaginative table. Not only do you see the end results of the tables, but then step by step instruction on how it was created. The focus is on creativity, and does not how lavish the china.
Unusual Tablescapes w/ some good-looking "modified for quickness" recipes.......2006-01-22
Not sure why I picked this up from the library, we don't really do a lot of entertaining, just family. I DID enjoy looking through this book which had some very interesting and pretty tablescapes. I was surprised about the recipes but some of them actually sound good. I plan on trying them, maybe not for guests, but just because I am always looking for quick recipes. Like another reader said, if you want the real deal, there are great cookbooks out there. Christopher is not a chef!
Like other reviewers, some of the tablescapes were a little over the top, but to me they could easily be toned down. My favorite tablescapes were:
Petal Pushers - clear trough of petals and flowers
Asian Zen - very unusual flowers
Veggie-table chic - but toned down
Tin-talizing Picnic - was very cute.
Grass Roots - very tall, grass-like arrangement
Ummm, I just picked most of his designs. Maybe I like it better than the 3 stars I thought I was going to give it.
Give me a break!.......2005-12-16
With all the wonderful books on the market on entertaining, we have to be subjected to this egomaniac on every page, food out of a can and horrible table designs. Too over the top, too gaudy and waaaayyy too centered on someone who has seen better days. Don't waste your money.
GREAT recipes, "tablescapes" overdone...........2005-08-21
I liked both the recipes and his "party notes" at the beginning of the book--a lot of useful information. The recipes are a good compromise between cooking gourmet and just bringing something from the Costco Deli Section style of entertaining.
The tablescapes--I can see going to all that effort for something very special, like a wedding (if you're doing that in lieu of a gift), but for normal get-togethers they're too much work. For sit-down dinners, I don't know about you, but I like to see the people I'm talking and eating with, not look through a virtual forest, or glassware, or whatever. For a buffet, they might be nice, if you took what he put on ONE table and spread it out over THREE tables--yes, that is how much stuff is on the table....
Even the table ideas I did like looked like they were all geared towards parties where you were being served by waitstaff. There was no room on his tables to pass anything around "family style", which is a concern if that is how most of your dinners are.
Bottom line: It really depends on the type of people you have at your parties/get togethers. If you have Martha-types, they will ooh and aahh and you might get something out of all that work on the tablescapes. If the people you entertain are more practical and down-to-earth, get this book for the recipes.
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What makes a garden special? Focal points that capture the eye, that turn each area into a habitat of graceful beauty, and that make a strong first impression. Using dozens of inspiring photographs, horticulturist Tara Dillard reveals the secrets of creating eye-catching arrangements that are elegant, not overdone, and that maintain their loveliness all year long. Find out how to choose a theme, make a splash with color, add garden art, install effective architectural pieces and furnishings, and make a big impact with just a little input. From trompe l’oeil illusions (including faux doors and windows) to recreating the first garden you loved, every idea here is top-quality.
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Thought provoking and inspiring!.......2007-05-16
Have you seen a garden and loved it but perhaps couldn't quite explain what made it special? Have you been in your own garden and felt it needed "something" but didn't know what that something was?
I bought this book because it was recommended by a friend. Once I got it home, I read it and re-read it. Besides beautiful photos, this book is about garden design, especially regarding focal points. It's wonderful information presented in a way that is easy to understand. Once I read this book, which I still refer to often, I look at my own garden in different ways. It's seems like a discovery of a garden secret. It can take your garden to a higher level of enjoyment.
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Red on Red celebrates the return of brilliant reds to the decorator's palette after an absence in favor of more minimalist shades. In her second book with Bulfinch, Stephanie Hoppen tackles the vivid range of variations from rich crimsons and purples, and warm oranges and terracottas through to spicy raspberrys, pinks, and fuchsias. Using individual color palettes, Hoppen shows how each can be used in interiors ranging from eclectic and rich to cool and modern.
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Melanie Royals returns with more of the great techniques that made her first book, Trompe L'Oeil Murals Using Stencils, a must-have for anyone seeking to explore the intriguing possibilities of trompe l'oeil. Designed to be used by newcomers to the art and featuring sophisticated content that will captivate professionals, Painted Illusions includes:
* Step-by-step projects using stencil techniques so easy to master that even novices can paint beautiful faux finishes and trompe l'oeil images
* Inspiring photographs of completed projects and helpful hints for alternative applications
* A variety of possible effects, including inlaid wood, embroidered fabric, embossed leather, and decorative plaster moldings
With Painted Illusions, readers can make magic!
Customer Reviews:
Excellent book!.......2006-10-05
The thing that makes this book great, is that Royals tells you the exact type and name brand of paints to purchase in order to achieve these effects. Showing a color of a "tan" may not be the color you need to achieve certain results, because there are several tans. She shows you the stencils used and takes you step by step. It helps to know a little about shading and highlighting to get the results you're after. Very,very happy with this book. Great price also.
Mouth Droppingly Beautiful.......2005-12-07
This is my first book by this author and I was blown away. I am not a big fan of the folk-art type of decor BUT there are only a couple of examples of that style in this book. The remainder designs would rival Debbie Travis'.
Where do I start? Her freeform stencil of the grapevines and scrolls is one of the prettiest examples of layering of stencils. I think why I like her is that it's MUCH MORE realistic looking than most of the stencil art out there. I think it must be her technique.
My favorite part of the book is from chapter 3 to the end of the book. The photos are great in showing how to do each step. A lot of embossing and faux fabric techniques that look exactly like damask and other patterned fabric. It is really amazing. Now don't get me wrong, I did not like every wall in this book. The Batik was not for me, only because it looked too "country" for my taste, but again, the technique could be used for a different design. The Oriental Brocade was a little too much for me.
This author got it right in how to demonstrate the steps. They are all numbered in order and the pictures clearly demonstrate the technique. She even has a technique that looks like crewel embroidery. To me, the best techniques in the book were:
~Embossed Leather - looks so real. I think I am going to try it in my husband's study
~Decorative Carved Dado - it REALLY looks carved
~Faux Stone Tile
~Carved Stone Frieze
~Velvet Embossing
~Printed Linen
~Damask - done is a beautiful tone-on-tone
~Shimmering Silk
If I had just looked at the pictures, I would have said, "How beautiful! Wish I could do that," but with the explicit details and instructions, I really think I can.
Well worth the money and I plan on looking up more of this auhor's books.
Awesome book.......2005-08-02
I have one of this author's previous books and I loved it. This book has some awesome ideas for authentic looking finishes using stencils. I am amazed at how great these finishes look and can't wait to try my hand at them.
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Uncover the glory in your home! Use paint to create inspired living spaces that reflect your style and your home's character.
Once upon a time, there was a sad little Victorian house on the corner, abandoned by its previous owners and abused by time. Your Home, A Living Canvas is the Cinderella story of that house and its transformation into a charming, historic home, thanks to the loving care of acclaimed decorative artisan, Curtis L. Heuser.
From the grand staircase to the cozy third-floor master suite, this book takes you along on the complete floor-to-ceiling, room-by-room makeover. You'll learn about the design concepts and inspirations for each space, along with real-world how-to's behind the wall treatments, ceiling features, architectural highlights, and other exquisite details.
- A series of 25+ step-by-step demonstrations show how Heuser used murals, trompe l'oeil and faux finishes to blend old with new, reclaiming the spirit of the house's former glory, while incorporating unique personal touches.
- Covers a range of decorative styles, from the exotic crackle-finish bookcases in the study, to the Italian country villa-inspired kitchen, to a sophisticated dining room that embodies the Old World ambiance of classic European interiors.
- Offers a wealth of expert decorating advice on using color to evoke mood, displaying your collections, mixing and matching eclectic furnishings, and more.
Whether you're interested in a simple faux finish technique or are dedicated to preserving the architecture and charm of your own historic dwelling, this book will help you create a living environment rich in color, texture and atmosphere ... a place called "home."
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The Dewey Color Coordinator is a unique and indispensable color-matching guide. It gives the reader (and shopper!) , color combinations for fashion and furnishings. Color coordinates are found in this spiral-bound guide thats based on an intriguing and revolutionary new personality evaluation, the Dewey Color System. This companion book offers color combinations that work with your personality traits. (The Dewey Color System --- is based on the concept that color can be used to reveal the core of an individuals personality.) For more information about the Dewey Color Sytem please see the feature article and quiz at http//www.ivillage.com/dewey.
Customer Reviews:
Fantastic!.......2006-01-07
Ideal for people who wish to be bedazzled by colours, but in a sensible manner.
I disagree on the previous review!!!.......2002-10-24
This coordinator helped me in ways that reflect its use. Its NOT designed to create infinite color combinations but uses the colors at the core of its spectrum and creates a huge amount of shades and combinations....certain colors that look wrong together in a paint store, appear more appealing in this book...
Im very impressed with the layout and would tell anyone thats interested in blending and comparing and understanding the nuances and meaning of certain color combinations to use this as a tool!!....
The Same Color Combinations Repeated Too Often!!.......2002-09-05
This color book is not as helpful as I would have expected. There are many color combinations in each chapter. But if you carefully review all of these color combinations through out the book, you will discover that most of these color combinations have been repeated in each of the different chapters. This book was a very big dissapointment to me! This is my second negative review of this book, but it appears that I mentioned price in my original review, thus that review wasn't listed here.... Now, after reading the rules, I'm re-writing my review.
I have bought many, many books at Amazon[.com], and I must own practically every book I can find on the topic *color*. I must honestly say, that I was very disappointed with this guide on "color combinations"!! Every one has a different view on books and I respect that some people might love this book. But, I feel that other people should also hear opinions such as mine. If I had read more reviews, I might have found that this book wasn't the correct book for me! I do hope that this review does get listed here!
If you are looking for hundreds of color combinations, maybe then this isn't the book for you. If you find that you need a quick & handy book on color combination, then maybe this book is what you really are seeking. I did tear out all of the color sheets and unfortunately I found many, many of the same colors were repeated in my stack of tear outs. Plus, I found many of the color combinations repeated in the various chapters, also! I had been using this book for decorating my house, but I found that there weren't enough color combinations contained in this guide to decorate in my preferred style which is French Country. Maybe another person will find this guide more useful then I did.
Book Repeats the Same Color Combinations Over & Over!.......2002-08-31
I own many art books on color for interior design, fashion, desk top publishing and books on color for the artist and colorist. This book is over priced for the information and color samples which you recieve. I followed the instructions of tearing the samples out. I discovered that of the 50 or 100 samples that I removed from the book, that the colors of these samples were repeated over and over.
In the end, I might have received maybe 12 to 15 different distinct colors in my samples. There were at least 6 or more of the same color samples repeated in my stack of color samples. The same color combinations were also repeated over and over in the book, i.e., for the chapter on Red, you would have combinations of that red with other colors, say, Blue as one of the colors in the sample group. Let's call that group sample group "A", for clarity in my explaination. Later, when you got to the Chapter on Blue, that same sample group "A" (consisting of that Red and Blue, etc.) occured again. The same small set of a dozen or so of the color groups were repeated in the various chapters of this book.
The book is cute but not worth $28 in my humble opinion. It would be much more useful and cost effective to buy a color wheel and look at the various color combos. In this book, you're getting only a dozen or so unique color swatches and then the swatches are combined to form a dozen or so color combinations. Then these color combinations are repeated in the chapters that follow.
A very handy guide for decorating and matching colors.......2001-08-22
This has been the most helpful book I've discovered for matching colors as I spruce up my house. Flipping through all the color combinations gives me great ideas, then the really cool part about using the tear-out color strips to match my couch, then taking them with me to the store to match to the perfect carpet! No need to cart the whole book with me. I know it will also come in handy next time I go clothes shopping too. His other book, Dewey Color System, about color discovery in your life and understanding yourself through color sounds funs and fascinating - I can't wait to get it too!
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Incredible residential structures that stop traffic-if you're lucky enough to see them from the road-are now open to the public through the pages of this international album of superb, world-class houses.
An inspiring reference source for architects, builders, interior designers, home owners, or any connoisseur of gracious living, the book is filled with fabulous, one-of-a-kind, single-family dwellings in locales around the globe. The residences featured, though extremely varied, share the commonality of spectacular structural qualities and sensational visual appeal. Based on state-of-the-art materials, imaginative finishing textures, and a multitude of compelling accents, these stunning homes set new standards for excellence in residential design at the start of a new millennium.
Customer Reviews:
Refreshing designs, not actually stunning.......2005-04-20
This is a good book about modern residential architecture. The whole book features 23 carefully selected houses in different countries. Some of my favorites are Glass House (the Netherlands), House and School (Japan), and Jordi Cantarell House (Spain). In general, all these houses share a similar architectural style, so the design concepts are quite consistent and the modern aesthetic (somewhat neo-minimalism) flows well throughout the book. In an abstrative manner, nearly all these houses are based on modern architecture design paradigm, but with different materials and layout to address specific problems or requirements (posed either by the location or by the clients) and to fit the surroundings. Most of the houses featured in this book is small in scale. The text is succinct and catches the heart of each project.
Something I don't like about the book: 1) I don't like the title simply because it does not tell you anything about the content. Any kinds of design (traditional or modern) could be stunning. In fact, I find the houses in the book represent high quality modern architecture, but are not actually stunning (because these projects are not meant for innovation and experimentation from an architectural perspecitve); 2) Some of the floor plans are not clear enough. I have to think hard and use my brain-cells to imagine and connect all the pictures into a 3D virtual house.
In summary, it is a nice little addition to your modern residential architecture book collection.
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Floored: Furnish Your Floors : 25 Stunning Surface Solutions (Designer Details)
Catherine Tully
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Including projects featuring linoleum, carpet tiles, hardboard, floorboards and ceramic tiles, this book has novel ideas for every type of floor surface in the house.
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