The Happy Home


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This lovely and inspirational guide, organized around six joyful qualities, will show you how to create a happier home, through prompts, quick fixes, afternoon projects, and mindful design and organization—The Happy Home is not just a title, it’s a promise. Energize. Uplift. Comfort. Calm. Empower. Express. The road to happiness is paved with good emotions. In fact, a happy home is infused with these six actions and this cheerful book will help you create a space you love and that loves you back. Lovely Indeed creator Chelsea Foy offers up more than 50 creative ideas to engage all the senses to brighten your mood throughout your home. This book sits at the intersection of HGTV home improvements and design, thoughtful Marie Kondo practices, and a cheery color palette fans of the Home Edit will love. Kicking off with a foreword by Joy Cho, creator of Oh Joy!, the book guides you through questions to consider so you can customize your home to your own mood-lifting needs, be it a calming bedroom, a chill den, or an energizing kitchen. Easy projects and ideas help you tweak the rooms of your house so they engage the senses in all the right ways. Each chapter focuses on a feeling and includes: Guided prompts: Questions to consider about what a happy space might look and feel like for you Quick Tricks: Creative hacks and ideas to freshen up your space Afternoon Projects: Doable projects and inspo for your home and décor to amp up the joy Big Ideas: Step-by-step projects that you can complete in a day or weekend that are inexpensive but go a long way to creating a home tailored to your tastes and happiness needs With this handy and cheery book, you'll quickly find ways to customize all the rooms in your house for maximum bliss.




Apartment Therapy Complete and Happy Home


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The most comprehensive and complete home book from Apartment Therapy, featuring every aspect of design and decorating from floor plans to paint, specific rooms to style approaches, with the goal of setting up and living well in a place you love. “A complete and happy home is so much more than a series of pretty rooms. Between these two covers, we’ve captured everything we’ve learned at Apartment Therapy about decorating, organizing, cleaning, and repairs, so you can make and maintain your own fabulous home.” —from the Introduction Getting a room to feel right is more instinct than science. You know a great space when you see it. Apartment Therapy trains your eye with more than 75 rooms, from bedrooms to kitchens and living rooms to kids’ rooms and workspaces. Explore every detail—lighting, color palettes, flooring, and accessories—that brings a home to life and, most important, makes you happy in it.




Color Your Happy Home


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Find your way to happiness by coloring in and experiencing these charming scenes of domestic bliss New York Times bestselling author of 14,000 Things to Be Happy About Barbara Ann Kipfer and illustrator Durell Godfrey take the coloring experience to a new level by pairing inspiring phrases evoking happiness with beautiful line drawings. From a sunny kitchen table adorned with fresh flowers for tea with a special friend, to scenes of a birthday celebration, to a much-anticipated beach vacation--these are just a few of the special moments poignantly captured for colorists to embellish and enjoy. Featuring a heavy paper stock ideal for coloring with markers, crayons and pencils, these accessible drawings are ideal for colorists of all ages, even for a child's hands--the experience of coloring with a parent and discussing family life can create a great bonding experience. This special coloring book truly reminds colorists that it's the ordinary moments in a day that make life worthwhile. Find your way to happiness by coloring in and experiencing these charming scenes of domestic bliss New York Times bestselling author of 14,000 Things to Be Happy About Barbara Ann Kipfer and illustrator Durell Godfrey take the coloring experience to a new level by pairing inspiring phrases evoking happiness with beautiful line drawings. From a sunny kitchen table adorned with fresh flowers for tea with a special friend, to scenes of a birthday celebration, to a much-anticipated beach vacation--these are just a few of the special moments poignantly captured for colorists to embellish and enjoy. Featuring a heavy paper stock ideal for coloring with markers, crayons and pencils, these accessible drawings are ideal for colorists of all ages, even for a child's hands--the experience of coloring with a parent and discussing family life can create a great bonding experience. This special coloring book truly reminds colorists that it's the ordinary moments in a day that make life worthwhile.




The Happy Home Project


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We all want beautiful homes that reflect our personal style. But the happiest homes don't just look good-they also feel good. Ideally, they support the way we live, keep us healthy and safe and enrich our net worth, too. So how do we create homes that truly make us happy? In The Happy Home Project, author Jean N ayar looks not only at the material things that contribute to the beauty and style of a house, but also explores the hidden elements and intangibles that add to its substance and soul. Brimming with beautiful photos and filled with expert advice from architects, designers, organizing experts, and contractors, the book offers easy-to-follow guidance on how to create inspiring, stylish rooms as well as practical tips on how to invest wisely in furniture and improvements that will add value to your home-and your quality of life. Focusing on comfort and harmony with nature, the book taps into the wisdom of poets, philosophers and social scientists-as well as experts of the ancient Asian building philosophies of feng shui, vastu shastra, and wabi-sabi-to reveal some of the subtler steps that anyone can take to turn to an ordinary, impersonal house into an uplifting, personal sanctuary. With helpful hints on everything from corralling clutter, picking paint and arranging furniture to refinishing floors, replacing windows and remodeling a kitchen, The Happy Home Project is a great go-to guide for home improvement projects, large and small. Whether your home needs a major makeover or just a little fine-tuning, the ideas, solutions and tips in this book will help you increase its happiness quotient-and let you live well in any dwelling and at any stage of life.




Happyhome


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Hello Color


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Get bold and bright with these 25 easy and fun DIY home decor projects that will liven up your life and make your home space vibrant Whether she’s writing for her blog, snapping pictures for Instagram, or just living her life, Rachel Mae Smith is all about the simple joys of handmaking and bringing brightness to everything. And now beginning crafters, aspirational DIYers, and dorm dwellers can, too! Rachel shares her colorful signature style in each simple and fun step-by-step project like Dip-Dyed Napkins, Pom-Pom Votive Candle Holders, and Geometric Patterned Pillows. Helpful sidebars on decorating, like Staging a Beautiful Bookcase and building Bar Carts for Beginners, give you ideas for perking up pre-fab accessories so that any space can look colorful. Plus how-tos on working with specific materials, ideas for entertaining, and—of course—a guide to shooting pictures. And as a special bonus, tear-out posters in the back make it easy for you to decorate your walls in a snap!




Color Your Home


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Presents a detailed guide to understanding the rules of color, how differentues inspire different feelings, and how to incorporate those feelings intoome design, all clearly explained so that even a novice decorator can feelonfident in using bold and beautiful colors.




LIFE


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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.




Color Your Life


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"Color bars: color matching system included"--Cover.




LIFE


Book Description

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.