Product Description: This elegant yet practical book takes the mystery out of home furnishings, enabling you to create stylish effects in every room. Helped by James Merrell's illuminating photography, interiors consultant and designer katrin Cargill provides 200 up-to-date home-furnishing ideas ranging from simple yet stylish curtains and cozy pillows to elegant bedspreads and imaginative lampshades...read more

Product Description: With evocative text by Judith Miller and inspiring photographs by James Merrell, "Wooden Houses" explores the decorative potential of wood in our homes. Wooden houses range from Midwestern prairie clapboard houses with wraparound porches to wood-framed barns converted into airy living spaces...read more

A breezy new cookbook promotes a relaxed style of cookery, offering a wide array of sensonal recipes for butternut squash, tomato fennel salad, and chicken chili, among other favorites, that can transforn any holiday or special occasion. 75,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Offers tips for period-style decorating using curtains, draperies, and soft furnishings, and includes step-by-step sewing instructions for fourteen innovative projects for the home. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Whether you are the proud owner of an ice cream maker or want to have a go at making ice cream in your freezer, here are 30 simple, easy-to-follow recipes with an international flavor. Drawing inspiration from the great ice cream making cuisines of the world, Elsa Petersen-Scheperlern's recipes - and James Merrell's mouth-watering photographs - will inspire you to create wonderful gelati, ice creams, sorbets, coconut-milk ices - for adults and for children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Shares over one hundred recipes for vegetable dishes using fresh plant parts including fruits, flowers, leaves, stems, bulbs, roots, tubers, pods, and seeds

Provides ideas and instructions for arranging flowers for the home that do not require elaborate techniques or expensive materials (view table of contents)

Presents ideas for using fabric to enhance windows, walls, floors, and furniture, including step-by-step directions for twenty-two home decorating projects

Describes colors, textures, objects, and scents suggested by the four seasons, and shows how to create seasonal decorations for the home (view table of contents)

Shows how to use candles in decorative arrangements with flowers and natural materials to create room decorations, centerpieces, scented displays, and holiday decorations

Shows how to create a variety of wreaths featuring flowers, plants, driftwood, and branches, and includes ideas for room decorations and seasonal wreaths and garlands

Accompanied by forty-two eye-catching color photographs and an introduction about the origin and varieties of mustard, a collection of thirty recipes using mustard seeds, greens, cress, or bottled mustard includes Pork Chops Poached in Mustard Cream Sauce.

Accompanied by forty-two eye-catching color photographs and an introduction about the origin and sources of ginger, a collection of thirty recipes featuring ginger in all its varieties includes Sample Five-Spice Chicken and Crystalized Ginger Ice Cream.

Product Description: Welcome the definitive book on a perennially popular approach to decorating. People love country-style design because it celebrates simplicity, warmth, and the enduring rural tradition—and this informative volume beautifully traces its origins...read more

Offers ideas for decorating using stripes, checks, motifs, pictorial prints, and different textures (view table of contents)

A stylish, lavishly illustrated cookbook presents more than 175 sensible, healthful recipes for quick-and-easy dishes, utilizing low-fat cooking techniques and emphasizing fresh, seasonal ingredients. 350,000 first printing.

Introduces the styles and interior design of wooden-frame houses, providing examples and historical background (view table of contents)

Explains how to use colorwash, distressing, stenciling, graining, and staining techniques to achieve a 'country' finish on walls, furniture, floors, and ceramics (view table of contents)

Now in paperback, this immensely popular and stylish how-to book provides practical information and design advice for artists, craftspeople, and woodworkers of all levels of experience. Step-by-step instructions for eighteen projects detail how the work can be carried out using simple tools and mainly traditional methods. Handsome color photographs illustrate and identify a wide range of rustic furniture and artifacts. There is also a brief history about each piece and a handy tools and techniques resource section. With Country Woodworker, anyone can add beauty and charm to his or her home. (view table of contents)

Presents the work of Roger Banks-Pye with the design firm of Colefax & Fowler and uses quotations to explore how he creates original interiors (view table of contents)