Garden Design category: 1176 books

An easy-to-use, one-stop reference guide for architectural and interior design. Part dictionary, part reference book, Mary Gilliatt's Dictionary of Architecture and Design is a single comprehensive source of information that will help you navigate all decisions related to home decor. Whether...

A comprehensive, full-color handbook, packed with hundreds of photographs that showcase the latest in beautiful, welcoming, and efficient kitchen design. 150 Best New Kitchen Ideas offers an in-depth look at exemplary new kitchen designs from today’s most renowned architects and designers....

The key to creating a house that is memorable, satisfying, and enduring is to apply a group of design concepts--or "patterns"--that focus on the experience of being in a home. In this groundbreaking work, internationally respected architects Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, and Barbara...

Luxury homes with international panache. “The essence of my interior design work seeks to reflect the evolving interplay of the domestic and the international, while remaining true to my intent to create alluring family living spaces and home environments.” Sandra Espinet (pron....

Packed with hundreds of pages of beautiful and inspirational color photographs of homes from around the world, a visually stunning resource and guide—part of the successful 150 Best series—featuring the latest in modern home construction and design. A comprehensive collection of single-family...

Discover the professional trade secrets to creating rooms that will grow with your children! Save time, money and headaches by creating a plan before you shop. Interior designer Teri Larsen will guide you through the design process, giving you tips and ideas for all aspects of designing for children, tweens & teens, including child safety, furniture, fabrics and more.

I have experienced many of the positives and negative of custom homes when involved in my first new home. Difficulties come frequently that had to be understood and dealt with. The lessons learned were many. Being a hands-on type of prospective homeowner, I was involved in all aspects of the design...

Sarah Susanka's Not So Big Solutions for Your Home explores practical design ideas that can transform any house into a great house that looks, works and feels right for the owner. Sarah Susanka, whose previous best-selling books showed homeowners how to appreciate and create a house that is...

Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns uses hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information on colors, fabrics and embellishments to paint a portrait of Japanese culture, art and thought. Lavish classical patterns, sweeping scenes, and the many motifs that have been woven, dyed,...

In this rich illustrated book, book we are going to present furniture styles, starting from the beginning of civilization up to the modern era. Considering the entire development of furniture styles, we can notice two different approaches in furniture design: classical and romantic. Classicism, with...

Did you just move into your new apartment, home, or dorm room and need a few pointers on how to decorate? Are you on a tight budget but want to look chic when people come over to visit? Would you like to know how to add personal touches to your kid’s room? Then you should scroll...

From design expert (and interior design readers’ favorite) Phoebe Howard comes a new book focused on decorating with beautiful blue color schemes. Coastal Blues is a glorious decor book filled with inspiring images of beach houses, seacoast getaways, vacation cottages, and luxurious seaside manors....

From the author of the successful 150 Best series comes the debut entry in the forward-thinking Open Concept Houses series, filled with nearly 500 pages of color photos—sure to become the ultimate resource for this fast-growing trend in home design and renovation. One of the hottest lifestyle...

Japanese Obi or "sashes" are colorful pieces of fabric that can be used to great effect in interior decorating as well as traditional Japanese dress. In Design with Japanese Obi, the authors present the obi as it is being used in interiors today, demonstrating simple yet striking...