House Beautiful Small Spaces (House Beautiful)
Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Space is a matter of perception as well as reality, and this book addresses scale, balance and color as well as the space-saving tricks that turn a small apartment into a comfortable home. It offers advice on using vertical space, such as hanging pictures above a window, stacking bookshelves to the ceiling, and raising a bed to the height of a chest of drawers that fits underneath; converting closets into cupboard beds, storage areas into offices, porches into dining areas, and garages into family rooms; using color to pull spaces together visually; making furniture serve dual functions. Most of the interiors are tastefully expensive, though the same effects could probably be obtained on an Ikea budget. There's not much hard-core how-to in these pages, but a wealth of ideas. All in all, it's a pleasant designer's guide to making do with less space without skimping on comfort. Sunday Record, Hackensack, NJ, June 7, 1998 Every shelter magazine seems to have spinoff books, which means they get more mileage from the expensive photographs that are the heart and soul of the genre. Some books are better than the others, just like the magazines themselves. Among the best is the House Beautiful series, which not only offers handsome photographs, but informative text as well.
This edition concentrates on the imaginative use of space, showing how to get the most out of a neglected corner, an undersized living room, or a tiny apartment. A few of the suggestions seem obvious: "Edit your possessions." Others inventive: "Give in to reality and play up the small." House Beautiful Small Spaces (House Beautiful)
House Beautiful Small Spaces (House Beautiful),Christine Pittel,Hearst,0688150950,Architecture,Decorating,Decorating - General,Decoration,Decoration & Ornament,Home Improvement / Construction,Interior Design - General,Interior Design - Style Books,Residential Interior Design,Small rooms,United States,Sale Books,BG-HUMOR/GAMES - BG-HUMOR
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