"Clear, practical book ... full-color photos help do-it-yourselfers realize their dreams." -- Log Homes Illustrated The best-selling Cabins is back in print, at the same great value of its original… Read More »
Category Archives: Books
No Place Like Home: Tips & techniques for real family-friendly home design
August 22, 2014
Stylish and practical designs for real familiesFrom the many room makeovers he has done for magazines, newspapers, and television shows, designer Stephen Saint-Onge has a very real sense of what… Read More »
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sicily
August 22, 2014
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sicily will lead you straight to the best attractions Sicily has to offer. Packed with detailed information, maps, and beautiful cutaways and floor plans of all… Read More »
Rustic Fireplaces
August 21, 2014
Rustic Fireplaces Written and photographed by Ralph Kylloe Fireplaces have become elaborate works of art in rustic home design. From stone and rocks to elaborately carved wood and antlers to… Read More »
Chinese Domestic Furniture in Photographs and Measured Drawings (Dover Books on Furniture)
August 21, 2014
"To comprehend the life of a civilized people one must know something of its household furniture." — Chinese Household Furniture. This reprint of a rare volume from 1944 is the… Read More »
Rustic Artistry for the Home
August 21, 2014
From comfortable simplicity to elegant showplaces, the settings, furnishings, and decor in Rustic Artistry for the Home raise the standard for excellence in this growing field of collectible handcrafted furnishings.… Read More »
Cabin Style: Ideas and Projects for Your World
August 21, 2014
This remarkable book will show readers how to transform a home of any style into a relaxed, cabin-like refuge. Although rustic, natural images and accessories predominate, cabin-style homes can be… Read More »
The First Apartment Book: Cool Design for Small Spaces
August 20, 2014
Star designer Kyle Schuneman offers bold ideas for achieving big style in small spaces—on any budget.A first apartment allows you to finally do what you want with your own space,… Read More »
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: France
August 20, 2014
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: France will lead you straight to the best attractions the country has to offer. Packed with photographs, illustrations, and detailed street-by-street maps of the major cities… Read More »
Perfect English Cottage
August 20, 2014
"Perfect English Cottage" explores 18 inspirational homes that celebrate the best of cottage style in the English countryside. The book looks at the decorating and design solutions that make the… Read More »
Designing Furniture: The New Best of Fine Woodworking
August 20, 2014
"Designing Furniture covers every step in the design process from inspiration to construction strategy, including learning from established styles, creating plans for unique furniture, and choosing among construction options. the… Read More »
Rustic Elegance
August 20, 2014
Focusing on the work of Larry Pearson, AIA, who is recognized as a leader in rustic design, Rustic Elegance exudes both luxury and comfort, history and innovation. Pearson Design Group… Read More »
Simply-Built Furniture (Popular Woodworking)
August 20, 2014
Keep it simple, keep it basic, keep it fun!Simply-Built Furniture is part of Danny Proulx's legacy to the woodworking world. He showed us that furniture doesn't have to be ornate… Read More »
Living in Style Mountain Chalets (English, German and French Edition)
August 20, 2014
This stylish volume takes us high into the exclusive world of mountain chalets. These are sanctuaries from the over-scheduled and chaotic world below. Their interiors offer a welcoming and cozy… Read More »
Rustic Garden Projects: 28 Decorative Accents You Can Build
August 20, 2014
This book features all-new projects aimed at the hottest trend in garden and yard decoration-rustic structures and accents made from green wood, soldered copper, weathered wood, rough cedar, unfinished iron,… Read More »
Rustic Chic Wedding: 55 Projects for Crafting Your Own Wedding Style
August 19, 2014
Rustic Chic Wedding is a bride and groom's peek into the vintage-inspired, timeless wedding of their dreams. A little DIY with a whiff of romance and whimsy goes a long… Read More »
Cabin Fever: Rustic Style comes Home
August 19, 2014
A log cabin in the woods is one of America's most cherished icons -- a dream shared around the world. As the stress level of city life rises, more and… Read More »
Italian Rustic: How to Bring Tuscan Charm into Your Home
August 19, 2014
A celebration of Tuscan farmhouse style, with practical advice on how to bring the look home.For anyone who has ever dreamed of living under the Tuscan sun, Italian Rustic is… Read More »
The Art of Rustic Furniture: Traditions, Techniques, Inspirations
August 19, 2014
By today’s top rustic furniture-maker, this book offers a variety of rustic projects, many of them reproductions of turn-of-the-century slab and rustic furniture. Use time-tested techniques to create a distinctive… Read More »
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Florence and Tuscany
August 18, 2014
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Florence & Tuscany will lead you straight to the best attractions the charming city of Florence and awe-inspiring Tuscany region has to offer. You'll find detailed… Read More »
Contemporary Western Design
August 18, 2014
Western design has evolved from the limitations of log-style architecture, simple and rough-hewn lodgepole pine furnishings, brightly colored leather, and Chimayo weavings to stately interiors that are graceful, elegant, and… Read More »
Making Bentwood Trellises, Arbors, Gates & Fences (Rustic Home Series)
August 18, 2014
Nothing combines natural beauty and functionality more gracefully than a rustic bentwood trellis, arbor, gate, or fence for your garden. With the inspiring photographs and step-by-step instructions in Making Bentwood… Read More »
Lonely Planet England (Travel Guide)
August 18, 2014
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet England is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what… Read More »
The Rustic Cabin: Design & Architecture
August 18, 2014
With a focus on architecture and details, rustic expert and author Ralph Kylloe introduces creative rustic designs that are inspiring a revival of cabin craftsmanship in his newest book, The… Read More »
Building Adirondack Furniture: The Art, the History, & How-To
August 18, 2014
As they sometimes are known to say in New England, "You can't hardly get this anymore!" And that is the truth, for John Wagner tells how to build beautiful, rugged… Read More »
1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, updated ed.
August 18, 2014
The 1,000 Places to See books are pleasurable, inspiring, wondrous, a best-selling phenomenon and, yes, practical: Announcing the updated edition of 1,000 Places to See in the USA & Canada… Read More »
Civil War Woodworking: 17 Authentic Projects for Woodworkers and Reenactors
August 17, 2014
Ranging from fairly easy to moderately difficult, this woodworking manual furnishes accurate reproductions of Civil War-era objects. Historical information about manufacturing and woodworking in the 19th century complements a discussion… Read More »
Making Country Rustic Wood Projects
August 17, 2014
"No doubt about it, this book offers a lot of helpful tips and practical guidance from an accomplished professional."-- "Fine Woodworking. Projects include benches, tables, and chairs, a handsome gun… Read More »
Rustic Garden Architecture
August 17, 2014
Many color photos. A profusion of pergolas, gazebos, tables, garden benches, trellises, chairs and other rustic garden adornments. Read More »
Cottage Style Decorating
August 16, 2014
Give every room in the house a fresh breath of cozy country style (minus the gingham) with Sunset's new Country Style Decorating. This book is all about the 'new' country… Read More »