Photographs and text help profile the different ornaments and furniture people use to decorate their gardens and discusses where someone can find unique objects that can be used in the garden.

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Offers suggestions on how to apply interior style and design to exterior spaces, covering such topics as fountains, furnishing, trellises, fire pits, and maintenance.

It's easy to add a pinch of panache to any d�cor with these unique and gorgeous painted designs for chairs, benches, shelves, even pillows. Just transfer the patterns to the furniture, follow the color placement instructions and detailed worksheets, add shadows and highlights as explained, and you have a beautiful piece that would have cost a fortune in a retail store. Decorate a drop-leaf table with colorful fruits of the season: purple grapes, golden pears, luscious peaches, and ripe red apples. An old flea market chair becomes worthy of royalty when given a fun "Queen of Hearts" motif. Or try the Fairest of Them All Mirror, Le Jardin Twig Footstool, Just for Her Cabinet, and other fabulous patterns. A Selection of the Country Homes & Gardens Book Club.

"The Most Simple Way to Create a Fairy Garden" is a text that gives the reader a basic overview of what needs to be done to create a magical garden. To some a magical garden involves the inclusion of all the elements while to others it simply means putting in brightly colored flowers and having some well placed fairy ornaments and lights to create that magical look. The author is well aware that gardening is not for everyone but has shown with this text that it can easily be done by anyone. With the convenience of garden outlets that have plants ready to plane and ornaments ready to select it is not that difficult to get that perfect garden anymore. One simply has to plant and maintain. Gardening is a great way to relieve stress and the end result can be shared with others. This book shows how you can get the process started. About the Author: Marie St. Claire has loved gardening ever since she learned what one was as a toddler and she spent a lot of time with her mother Elizabeth who did gardening as a hobby. From her mother she learned how to make a flower garden for the beauty of it, a vegetable garden for the self sufficiency and she also learned how to make those whimsical gardens filled with brightly colored flowers and strategically placed fairies, gnomes and other ornaments. She carried this hobby into her adult life and made it her point of duty to share this hobby with as many interested persons that she could find. Stemming from this she also made the decision to create a book that would give a bit more information on gardening and what someone would need to create a great whimsical, magical garden.

Houseplants are more popular than ever before—especially with millennials, who are setting up their homes for the first time and discovering that nothing can add energy, style, and that essential “lived-in-ness” to their spaces better than a little bit of green. Whether it’s a statement-making fiddle-leaf fig or a tiny tabletop succulent, a houseplant instantly elevates the look of your home. But where to begin? In Decorating with Plants, Baylor Chapman walks readers through everything they need to know to bring houseplants into their home. First, there’s Plant Care 101: from how to assess light conditions to tricks for keeping your plants alive while on vacation, Chapman gives readers the simple, foundational info they need to ensure their plants will thrive. Then she introduces us to 28 of her favorites—specimens that are tough as nails but oh-so-stylish, from the eye-catching Rubber Tree to the delicate Cape Primrose. Finally, she guides readers through the home room by room: Place an aromatic plant like jasmine or gardenia to your entry to establish your home’s “signature scent.” Add a proper sense of scale to your living room with a ceiling-grazing palm. Create a living centerpiece of jewel-toned succulents for a dining table arrangement that will last long after your dinner party. From air purification to pest control, there’s no limit to what houseplants can do for your home—and Decorating with Plants is here to show you how to add them to spaces big and small with style.

Illustrates classic, whimsical, and wild ideas for decorating a garden, with some 280 color photos for inspiration. This is not a typical garden book; the tips offered here are intended to help bring gardens to life with fanciful scarecrows, sculpture critters, found objects, and nostalgia. There are ideas on creating illusions with murals and mirrors, new ways of displaying classic garden ornaments like fountains and sundials, and examples of weaving natural elements into aesthetically pleasing shapes and patterns. c. Book News Inc.

Decorating your lifespace begins with a vision. What is your decorating vision? How will you bring it into reality? Journey through enlightenment with this 52-week interactive guide on how to define your inner vision and create decorating plans that bring it into full view! Activities to inspire your imagination are offered in planning a vision retreat, performing creative visualization exercises, meditation and yoga. Included is a section on creating a mandala and inner vision collage. Throughout the journey you're invited to maintain a personal journal and inner vision board while applying insights. Your decorating journey is highlighted with room-by-room inspirations in creating life space ambience, room themes, color schemes, furnishing ideas, lighting, interior accessories and furniture layout. You will gather ideas on how to establish a decorating budget, de-clutter and organize space, re-align energy and space cleansing. Insights are offered in applying healing art of nature, creating seasonal makeovers, eco-space design, Fengshui, Wabi Sabi, African, Zen, Native American and Vaastu room themes. In the final phase of journey, inspiration takes you out to nature with creating Japanese Ikebana table scapes, Fengshui, Medicine Wheel and Zen gardens. At the end of destination, you’ve created a lifespace design 'outer vision' that reflects the 'inner you.'

Take a walk down memory lane with this 1950s decorating classic, re-released for a whole new generation The year is 1956. America is a mere decade past World War II. Richard Nixon is next in command to President Dwight Eisenhower, the Dow Jones soars above 500, and Norma Jean Mortenson legally changes her name to Marilyn Monroe. Two words described the decade, as John Updike wrote in the short story “When Everyone Was Pregnant”: Fear and gratitude. And during this boom period, grateful young families thrilled to find themselves homeowners after the uncertainty of the Great Depression followed by a second Great War. Those empty rooms needed filling in order to make the house a home, and homeowners turned to the iconic Better Homes and Gardens brand. Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Book, the first edition of a title that would spawn ten editions over the years, became the new home bible for injecting class, style (and the occasional misguided cowboy wallpaper) into American homes. While exploring numerous styles, the main theme of the book is the on-trend mid-century modern sensibility, a style as appropriate today as it was six decades ago when the book was initially released. Filled with hundreds of full-color period photos, dozens of adorable illustrations, and decorating tips and tricks that are both helpful and nostalgic, the book remains a fun classic. With this welcome hardcover release, reproduced exactly as it looked and read in the 1950s, everything old is new again.

This comprehensive guide is an ideal source of ideas and guidance for all those who wish to transform their garden.