Best Interior Floor Design Books
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1. Elements of Family Style: Elegant Spaces for Everyday Life
Author: by Erin Gates
Published at: Atria Books; Illustrated edition (April 2, 2019)
ISBN: 978-1501137303
New York Times bestselling author and popular lifestyle blogger Erin Gates shares everything you need to know about designing a beautifully stylishyet practical and functionalfamily home through candid advice, inspirational ideas, and lessons learned. Loved by her readers for her chic interior designs and frank and funny revelations about life behind the scenes of her picture-perfect blog, bestselling author and designer Erin Gates presents a new book about how to live stylishly amidst the chaos of daily family life.
Throughout her career designing homes for families of all kinds all over the country, Erin has always maintained that living with children and pets does not mean that you have to forego nice things. This uniquely personal and practical guide will explain how to create a home that makes you proud and reflects your own style while also being durable, safe, and comfortable for children.
It focuses on the spaces families share, those that are dedicated to the kids, and the oft-forgotten retreats for parents. Erin combines honest design advice and gorgeous inspirational photographs with engaging and intimate personal essays about life lessons learned the hard way while struggling with infertility and becoming a mother, managing a business, overseeing her own home renovation, and finding time for her marriage.
2. Homebuilding and Woodworking in Colonial America (Illustrated Living History Series)
Author: by C. Keith Wilbur
Published at: Globe Pequot; 1st edition (June 1, 1992)
ISBN: 978-1564400192
Explores the tools and technology that the American colonists use to build homes that could stand the test of time.
3. Design by Nature: Creating Layered, Lived-in Spaces Inspired by the Natural World
Author: by Erica Tanov
Published at: Ten Speed Press; Illustrated edition (April 3, 2018)
ISBN: 978-0399579073
The first design book that translates elements of nature-including flora, water, and wood-into elements of decor for beautiful, lived-in, bohemian interiors, from acclaimed designer and tastemaker Erica Tanov. Inspired by nature’s colors, textures, and patterns, design icon Erica Tanov uses her passion for textiles to create beautiful, timeless interiors that connect us to the natural world.
Now, in her first book, Design by Nature, Tanov teaches you how to train your eye to the beauty of the natural world, and then bring the outdoors inincorporating patterns and motifs from nature, as well as actual organic elements, into simple ideas for everyday decorating and design.
Design by Nature contains new and imaginative decorating ideas for an organic and bohemian style that mixes and layers rugs, pillows, throws, and drapery, and incorporates unique patterns and fabrics such as shibori, ikat, and jamdani, all stunningly photographed by renowned photographer Ngoc Minh Ngo.
4. Remodel Without Going Bonkers or Broke: Have a Stress-Free Renovation and Fall In Love With Your Home Again
Author: by Jim Molinelli PhD
Published at: Jim Molinelli LLC (January 16, 2021)
ISBN: 978-0578843056
Everyone wants a home they love and are proud to show off.REMODEL! Without Going Bonkers or Broke helps you plan and coordinate your professional renovation so the project meets all your needs and leaves you smiling. Get honest answers to your toughest remodeling questions – and step-by-step instruction from a lifelong industry insider so you can remodel with confidence.
Learn to avoid: costly mistakesruined projects, andshattered dreamsEnd the embarassment of living a home that is dated, broken-down, or has failed to keep up with your changing life. Apply the proven method in REMODEL! Without Going Bonkers or Broke and get ready to fall in love with your home again .”Remodel your home and remodel your life!”
5. A Passion for Blue and White
Author: by Carolyne Roehm
Published at: Potter Style; Illustrated edition (October 28, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0767921138
Book by Roehm, Carolyne
6. The Weaving Explorer: Ingenious Techniques, Accessible Tools & Creative Projects with Yarn, Paper, Wire & More
Author: by Deborah Jarchow
Published at: Storey Publishing, LLC (November 26, 2019)
ISBN: 978-1635860283
Weaving is a highly accessible craft over, under is the basic technique but the stumbling block for many would-be weavers has been the high cost of a commercial loom. The Weaving Explorer removes that barrier, inviting crafters and artists to try out an amazing range of techniques and creative projects that are achievable with a simple homemade loom, or no loom at all!
Weavers Deborah Jarchow and Gwen W. Steege take inspiration from the world of folk weaving traditions, adding a contemporary spin by introducing an unexpected range of materials and home dec projects. From sturdy rag fabric grocery bags to freeform wire baskets, delicately woven thread bracelets to colorful woven rugs, crafters will delight in exploring the opportunities to make their own personal variations on these beautiful and functional creations.
7. Mid-Century Modern Living: The Mini Modern's guide to pattern and style
Author: by Keith Stephenson
Published at: Kyle Books; Illustrated edition (May 7, 2019)
ISBN: 978-0857835703
In this beautifully photographed book, Keith and Mark of Mini Moderns show you how to create a timeless mid-century look in your own home. Keith and Mark of Mini Moderns refer to their design ethos as ‘pattern with a story’. In this beautifully photographed book, they bring you the stories behind their designs and show you how you can use pattern and mid-century style to tell a story in your own home.
Under the Influence explains their “pattern with a story” design ethos and sources of inspiration, ranging from childhood memories to commentaries on popular culture. Elements of Style delves into the cornerstones of mid-century style, from color and pattern to materials and curation.
Here for the first time, they share their secrets on how to bring together the things you love. From adapting some slightly unloved mid-century pieces of furniture by reupholstering them or painting them to then combining them with vases or homewares, you can transform a space or a corner of a room.
8. Essential Sustainable Home Design: A Complete Guide to Goals, Options, and the Design Process (Sustainable Building Essentials Series)
Author: by Chris Magwood
Published at: New Society Publishers (July 31, 2017)
ISBN: 978-0865718500
Design your own sustainable home Many people dream of building a beautiful, environmentally friendly home. But until now there has been no systematic guide to help potential builders work through the complete process of imagining, planning, designing, and building their ideal, sustainable home.
Essential Sustainable Home Design walks potential homebuilders through the process starting with key concepts, principles, and a project vision that will guide the house to completion. Coverage includes: How to clarify your ideas and create a practical pathway to achieving your dream A criteria matrix to guide design, material, and systems decisions Creating a strong, integrated design team and working with professionals and code officials to keep the project on track from start to finish.
Key building science concepts that make for a high-performance, durable building Primer on building logistics, material sourcing, and protocols to ensure that the initial vision for the project comes to fruition. One-page summaries and ratings of popular sustainable building materials and system options.
9. Graanmarkt 13: A White Facade, 5 Floors and an Open Door
Author: by Rosa Park
Published at: Lannoo Publishers (January 31, 2019)
ISBN: 978-9401456951
Graanmarkt 13 is a well-known destination for cutting edge design and locally-sourced food in the heart of Antwerp’s historic theatre districtRosa Park and Rich Stapleton from the hip travel and style magazine Cereal authored the book in collaboration with Graanmarkt’s founders, Ilse Cornelissens and Tim Van GelovenLocated in a renovated townhouse in historic central Antwerp, Graanmarkt 13 is a multi-floor concept store, restaurant, and hotel/event space.
It is considered a mecca for timeless quality in cutting edge contemporary design, fashion, and gastronomy. Each floor of Graanmarkt 13 expresses the visual minimalism and carefully curated sensibility of its founders, Ilse Cornelissens and Tim Van Geloven. This beautifully illustrated book, created in collaboration with Rosa Park and Rich Stapleton, editors of the cult lifestyle magazine Cereal, is a celebration of the vision that Graanmarkt 13 embodies.
The authors, whose understated aesthetics make them ideal partners in telling each floor’s story, explore the evolution of this very personal project, including the renovation by renowned Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen, and the choices that support the founders’ underlying dedication to craftsmanship and sustainability.
10. Annie Sloan Paints Everything: Step-by-step projects for your entire home, from walls, floors, and furniture, to curtains, blinds, pillows, and shades
Author: by Annie Sloan
Published at: CICO Books; Illustrated edition (November 22, 2016)
ISBN: 978-1782493563
Decorative paint expert Annie Sloan shows how paint can transform any surface in your house. Decorative paint expert Annie Sloan shows how paint can transform any surface in your house. In this, her most personal book yet, Annie Sloan opens up a world of possibilities when it comes to decorating your home.
As well as ways to transform walls and furniture, you’ll also learn wonderful techniques for painting floors, fabrics, lighting, and more. Discover three chapters, all packed full of inspiration and advice: Furniture and Lighting, Fabric and Other Surfaces, and Walls and Floors.
Forty step-by-step projects will guide you through the methods for using paint in ways you never thought possible, with clear instructions accompanying each picture, and helpful tips along the way. Learn about printing, stenciling, gilding, transferring images, and dyeing fabric, as well as all the secrets of making the most of Annie’s own Chalk Paint range.
Find out, too, how to combine colors for different styles, and how to tap into your creativity by painting patterns freehand. No matter what your skill level, Annie Sloan Paints Everything will enable you to make over your home so you have the naturally stylish, individual interior you’ve always wanted.
11. California Contemporary: The Houses of Grant C. Kirkpatrick and KAA Design
Author: by Grant Kirkpatrick
Published at: Princeton Architectural Press; Illustrated edition (May 1, 2018)
ISBN: 978-1616896584
The stunning houses of Grant Kirkpatrick and his firm, KAA Design, exemplify why so many of us look to Southern California as the pinnacle of sophisticated modern living. Two dozen magnificent custom homes,modern in style, are built of sensuous materials and sited to make the most of nature, views, and sunlight.
This collection of visionary residences, shown in gorgeous photographs and colorful drawings, represents the California Dream, by an architect chosen by celebrities including TomHanks and Rita Wilson, Matt Damon, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, for their personal retreats. Kirkpatrick offers his reflections on these beautiful projectsand the design strategies behind their creation.
12. Flooring 1-2-3 (Home Depot … 1-2-3)
Author: by The Home Depot
Published at: The Home Depot; 2nd edition (October 17, 2006)
ISBN: 978-0696228575
Complete step-by-step guide that provides homeowners with everything they need to know to install a wide variety of floors and get beautiful, room-changing results. Step-by-step photography along with easy-to-understand and logically organized instructions that will give readers the confidence to install tile, wood, laminate floors as well as the sub-floor needed below.
Updates all aspects of flooring covered in the original edition and offers up-to-date information on new flooring options such as snap together laminate floors. The most comprehensive and easiest to use do-it-yourself flooring guide on the market today.
13. Quick and Easy Paint Transformations: 50 step-by-step projects for walls, floors, stairs & furniture
Author: by Annie Sloan
Published at: CICO Books; Illustrated edition (April 8, 2010)
ISBN: 978-1906525750
With this book in one hand and a brush in the other, you can learn how to create different paint finishes and effects to change everyday rooms and furniture into something special, all for the price of a pot of paint.
With this book in one hand and a brush in the other, you can learn how to create different paint finishes and effects to change everyday rooms and furniture into something special, all for the price of a pot of paint.
The first section of the book tells you everything you need to know before you start how to prepare surfaces properly, choose the right paint for the right place, and use the best tools. Then, the 50 projects are divided into five sections: Aging and Distressing; Working with the Base; Working with Color; Handpainting; and Crackle, Gilding, and Decoupage.
There are step-by-step images showing how to achieve the finished look, before shots and inspirational photography showing the effects used on walls and doors, furniture and floors. Learn how to bring old second-hand furniture bang up to date, or how to give modern pieces a softly aged appearance, as well as ways to treat and transform floorboards, doors, and plastered walls.
14. MACRAMÈ: Forty-Nine Beginner’s Projects and Patterns to Learn Knotting In A Few Days in An Easy, Inexpensive and Fun Way. Make Your Modern Decor for Your Home, Relax and Switch Off from The World.
Author: by Nancy Harris
Published at: Independently published (September 6, 2020)
ISBN: 979-8683532703
Would you like to decorate your home with something made entirely with your own hands and feel proud of you? Are you looking for a hobby that allows your mind to relax and free itself from the thoughts that make you anxious?
If yes, keep reading.. UPDATE: The pictures have been made bigger and with better quality. In addition, pictures of all 49 projects have been added. I want to confess something to you. Many years ago I started learning the basics of Macram.
I practiced for days and days and couldn’t wait to complete my first project. However, I continued to make many mistakes. Have you ever tried and tried to do something and always get bad results? Well, this was exactly my situation and I can’t hide that it was very frustrating.
Despite everything I never gave up, and today things have changed radically! My name is Nancy Harris and for over ten years I have been organizing workshops around the world to share my knowledge with people. It is very important that you pay attention to what I am going to tell you.
15. Prints Charming by Madcap Cottage: Create Absolutely Beautiful Interiors with Prints & Patterns
Author: by John Loecke
Published at: Harry N. Abrams; Illustrated edition (October 17, 2017)
ISBN: 978-1419726644
Layers of pattern bring serious style to any interiorand the pages of every shelter magazine currently feature this well-loved look. This bright, lively interior design book is like no other: it shows readers how to choose and use pattern (whether on upholstered furniture, walls, and floors, or in curtains, rugs, and accessories) to create gorgeous room designs.
It also teaches readers how to layer pattern for fresh, exciting, personalized spaces. The book is delightfully illustrated with inspiring images of design elements and finished roomsand each chapter is packed with lively DIY projects, plus Dos and Don’ts, Try This, and more.
16. Tiling 1-2-3 (Home Depot … 1-2-3)
Author: by The Home Depot
Published at: The Home Depot (September 15, 2001)
ISBN: 978-0696211874
A comprehensive do-it-yourself tiling book that includes planning, designing, selecting, installing, and repairing.
