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1) 150 best tiny interior ideas

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2) Design a healthy home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

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"Simple, practical advice on how to design your home for health and happiness. With indoor air pollution now worse than ever, and more of us spending more time in our own homes, discover how to create calm, social and comfortable spaces by making small changes to every room. Design a Healthy Home breaks down the complex subject of sustainable, biophilic design into specific subjects, including lighting, air quality, acoustics, temperature, colour,...

3) Design the home you love: practical styling advice to make the most of your space

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"The founders of Havenly help you find your own style in this fresh and accessible guidebook to the complicated world of interior design"--

4) Feels like home: relaxed interiors for a meaningful life

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The popular social media and TV star presents a collection of practical design ideas and case studies on a variety of different homes, including a beach cottage, a farmhouse, and a home in the woods, all exploring the emotional connection between home decoration and one's daily life.

5) Home Sweet Houseplant: A Room-by-Room Guide to Plant Decor

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Chapman, Baylor

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Living with Plants

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Greenify Your Home No matter what space you're considering-from a kitchen window to a loft-size living room-this book, adapted from Decorating with Plants, will show you how to find the perfect plant for the perfect spot. Plant designer Baylor Chapman starts with the basics, including a guide for choosing and caring for your plants, then takes the reader room by room, offering unexpected design concepts and inspired projects to elevate your home....

6) The new mindful home: and how to make it yours

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Thornhill, Joanna

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"We often think of mindfulness in relation to meditation, but our homes and interior design can play a big part in our emotional well-being. The New Mindful Home demystifies the links between body, mind and soul to explain how you can harness the power of mindfulness to help our homes support a more considered lifestyle. How do we create spaces that can calm and revives us? With the same practical attention to problem-solving as in her first book,...

7) House to home: designing your space for the way you live

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Dutta-Choudhury, Devi

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"A modern guide to home improvement that will help you create a dynamic, comfortable space that supports your life and the way you want to live"--

8) Wild interiors: beautiful plants in beautiful spaces

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Bestselling author Hilton Carter brings his unique eye and love of plants to show you how to create luscious interiors that not only look amazing but are good for your well-being, too. Hilton first guides you through his own plant journey, his inspirations, and his top ten favourite house plants. He then takes you on a Journey in Greenery where he showcases the homes of 12 inspiring plant parents that demonstrate the versatility of decorating with...

9) A Colorful Life: Gere Kavanaugh, Designer

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Sandhaus, Louise

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The designer Gere Kavanaugh is an irrepressible force of nature who epitomized the craft and folk vibe of the '60s and '70s California design scene and remains a larger-than-life personality today. Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Kavanaugh became in 1952 only the third woman to earn a degree in Cranbrook Academy of Art's design program. After successful stints as one of GM's so-called Damsels of Design and as director of interiors for Victor Gruen's...

10) Living Simply: A Teen Guide to Minimalism

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Twenty-first-century minimalism is an increasingly mainstream response to global environmental crises such as climate change, the garbage glut, fast fashion, and other manifestations of the harmful impact of consumerism. Originally founded in the art world in the decades after World War II, minimalism has evolved into an Earth-friendly lifestyle focusing on the three Rs (reducing, recycling, and reusing) and on simplifying individual needs to reduce

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11) My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation

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Rattner, Donald M

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48 Techniques to Boost Your Creativity at Home, According to Science A great deal of psychological and productivity research has gone into discovering how the design of the physical environment can improve creative performance, yet nearly all of it has focused on the workplace, commercial spaces, and schools. What has been largely overlooked is the one place we spend more time in than anywhere else and where more people than ever are now working:...

12) At home in Joshua Tree: a field guide to desert living

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"At Home in Joshua Tree offers a peek inside the captivating world of southern California's high-desert, with The Joshua Tree House founders Sara and Rich Combs bringing readers into their laid back, inviting world through mindful practices that enhance the everyday. Guided by nature and the cycles of the sun, this beautiful book offers an intentional, mindful way of living that combines the very best of the wellness movement and modern design to...

13) The gentle art of Swedish death cleaning: how to free yourself and your family from a lifetime of clutter

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Magnusson, Margareta

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The Swedish Art of Living and Dying

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Margareta suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you'd ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children's art projects). Digging into her late husband's tool shed, and her own secret drawer of vices, Margareta introduces an element of fun to a potentially daunting task. Along the way readers get a glimpse into her life in Sweden, and also...

14) Hygge & West Home: design for a cozy life

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Coop, Christiana

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Tastemakers Christiana and Aimee of Hygge & West know that the key to making a house into a home is in the decorationwhether that means embracing natural elements, creating cozy spaces, making room for family, or finding your own personal charm in every space. Hygge & West Home offers a look into 20 covetable homes designed to promote feelings of coziness, companionship, and comfort, from an intimate apartment in San Francisco to a log cabin in Wyoming,...

15) Small space style: because you don't have to live large to live beautifully

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Morris, Whitney Leigh

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"Interior design maven Whitney Leigh Morris makes living in under 400 square feet look elegant and effortless--even with a husband, baby, and two Beagles in the mix. In her debut book, Whitney shares her ideas and practices for making any tiny space efficient and stylish--whether it's a rustic A-frame in the woods or a chic microapartment in the city. Featuring 300 tips for making the most of your little home, Small Space Style is the must-have, incredibly...

16) Making Midcentury Modern

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Kennedy, Christopher

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The acclaimed interior designer shares one hundred tips for bringing the principles of midcentury modern style to any home in this beautifully photographed volume. With its minimalist elegance and nostalgic warmth, Midcentury modern style continues to capture the American consciousness. We see it everywhere from television shows to fashion runways. Yet, not all of us can live in a pedigreed midcentury home. Now, Springs interior designer Christopher...

17) california casa

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18) Living in Mexico

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Stoeltie, Barbara

19) Red tile style: America's Spanish revival architecture

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20) Private gardens of Santa Barbara: the art of outdoor living

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"Private Gardens of Santa Barbara is an invitation into twenty-one distinctive private gardens: large estates, modest homes, and surf retreats run the gamut from sublime and naturalistic to bold and urban. What they have in common, however, is what makesthem truly great. These gardens are a response to the unique character of each site, the existing architecture, and the larger environment; and adapted to the lifestyle, personality, and practical...