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Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of A Misspent Life

Author : Mary Randolph Carter

Publisher : Rizzoli Publications

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 45,7 MB

Release : 2010-10-19

Category : House & Home

ISBN : 0847833658

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For all those who choose to live "imperfectly" with the messy things they love, this book shows how to do so creatively, happily, and with considerable style ideas from leading designers. A beautiful and inspiring volume, A Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of A Misspent Life focuses on living well with everything that makes a house a home. If you have been influenced by the picturesquely cluttered studios of Pablo Picasso or Alexander Calder, or by the art- and book-filled house of Vanessa Bell, this unique style book will stimulate you with its creative ideas.This volume explores how real-life tastemakers (photographers, textile designers, fashion designers, writers, artists) integrate their life and interiors to live well with their passions, histories, conveniences, and inconveniences. In inspiring essays, Mary Randolph Carter muses on such key housekeeping concerns as clutter versus mess; open windows; and unmade beds. Combining practical tips with liberating philosophy—"Don’t scrub the soul out of your home"; "Make room for what you love"—this volume celebrates living beautifully and happily, not messily. Lavishly illustrated with intimate photographs of different living spaces, Carter exalts in the beauty of imperfection and in living perfectly in our "imperfect" homes. Life isn’t perfect—why should your house be?



The Perfectly Imperfect Home

Author : Deborah Needleman

Publisher : White Lion Publishing

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 34,48 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Interior decoration

ISBN : 9781906417703

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The Perfectly Imperfect Home is a must-have guide to choosing the 80 essential items you need for furnishing and decorating your home, expertly written by Deborah Needham, founder of Domino magazine. Featuring original watercolour illustrations of decorators' own homes, the book sets out how to select everything from the big stuff (a doted-on bed, a couch that will last generations) to quirky accents (an interesting-looking chair, a mix of textiles on a table). It is often the individual pieces, from chairs to china, mirrors to vases, that help you to express your personality, add style and beauty to a home and make everyone in it feel comfortable, glamorous and well-cared for. The inspiring design and approachable tone of The Perfectly Imperfect Home puts it a cut above the competition. Witty and wonderful essays and quick-reference sidebars highlight each of the 80 essentials, offering histories, offbeat uses and really useful styling tips. Decorating a home can be intimidating, but here are 80 essentials that make it manageable and fun.



Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House

Author : Meghan Daum

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 38,13 MB

Release : 2010-05-04

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0307593606

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From the acclaimed author and columnist: a laugh-out-loud journey into the world of real estate—the true story of one woman’s “imperfect life lived among imperfect houses” and her quest for the four perfect walls to call home. After an itinerant suburban childhood and countless moves as a grown-up—from New York City to Lincoln, Nebraska; from the Midwest to the West Coast and back—Meghan Daum was living in Los Angeles, single and in her mid-thirties, and devoting obscene amounts of time not to her writing career or her dating life but to the pursuit of property: scouring Craigslist, visiting open houses, fantasizing about finding the right place for the right price. Finally, near the height of the real estate bubble, she succumbed, depleting her life’s savings to buy a 900-square-foot bungalow, with a garage that “bore a close resemblance to the ruins of Pompeii” and plumbing that “dated back to the Coolidge administration.” From her mother’s decorating manias to her own “hidden room” dreams, Daum explores the perils and pleasures of believing that only a house can make you whole. With delicious wit and a keen eye for the absurd, she has given us a pitch-perfect, irresistible tale of playing a lifelong game of house.



The Joy of Junk

Author : Mary Randolph Carter

Publisher : Rizzoli Publications

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 41,65 MB

Release : 2018-09-25

Category : House & Home

ISBN : 0847862100

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Best-selling author Mary Randolph Carter is back at it with a full-throated celebration of junk and thrifting. The Joy of Junk shows us how to live stylishly and creatively with the personally meaningful objects we love to collect for our homes. From the author who taught us that "junk" in not a four-letter word, and drawing on her years of experience as a passionate thrifter and collector, Carter highlights her favorite junking moments, revels in the thrill of the hunt and imparts many personal tips for finding treasures in flea markets, yard sales, estate sales, shops, on the web, or wherever you may find yourself. With her passion for self-expression and her personal approach to decor, Carter speaks to our desire to surround ourselves with belongings that bring beauty and meaning to our lives. Along the way, Carter interviews other designers and high-profile collectors--such as Lisa Eisner, Bunny Williams, and Mike Wolfe from "American Pickers," among others--revealing their favorite treasure hunts and showing us how they live with their collections. Inspiring and liberating, The Joy of Junk shows how we can integrate our passions and histories to live creatively and happily with the special and quirky objects that give our homes soul.



American Junk

Author : Mary Randolph Carter

Publisher : Penguin Putnam

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 24,10 MB

Release : 1994

Category : House furnishings

ISBN : 9780670844005

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Book Description

A guide to decorating the home using objects acquired at flea markets, auctions, and garage sales features before-and-after photographs, prices, a listing of auction houses, and tips on bargaining, cleaning, and camouflage.



American Family Style

Author : Mary Randolph Carter

Publisher : Studio

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 30,74 MB

Release : 1990-11-01

Category : Cooking, American

ISBN : 9780140144895

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In more than 500 full-color photographs, Carter offers a treasure trove of ideas for every home, in every region of the country, in every season of the year, and for every holiday. A wonderful inspiration for readers who want to recreate the best traditions of country living in their own homes.



My Misspent Youth

Author : Meghan Daum

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 152 pages

File Size : 31,53 MB

Release : 2014-12-23

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 1250067693

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The cult classic essay collection from “one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny . . . writers of our time” (Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review). First published in 2001, My Misspent Youthcaptured a generation’s uneasy coming of age as the world made its chaotic way into a new millennium. It also established Meghan Daum as a leading literary voice, widely celebrated for her fresh, provocative approach to the hidden fault lines of America’s cultural landscape. From her New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber-relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the center of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her.



Garden Junk

Author : Mary Randolph Carter

Publisher : Penguin Putnam

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 13,35 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Gardens

ISBN : 9780670869381

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The reigning Queen of Junk marries America's flea market fervor with its garden mania in a book which issues an invitation to track down and rescue garden treasures wherever they lurk, from thrift shops to country auctions. Carter reveals how to revamp garden tools, refinish old paint, and provides hints on hunting and bargaining. A directory of 200 thrift shops, flea markets, and other "junking sites" is included. 400+ color photos.



Big City Junk

Author : Mary Randolph Carter

Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 13,4 MB

Release : 2001

Category : House furnishings

ISBN : 9780609607121

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First time in trade paperback The dramatic, behind-the-scenes story of an ambitious Roman politician whose fateful decision changes the course of history.



Clayton Stone, At Your Service

Author : Ena Jones

Publisher : Holiday House

Page : 205 pages

File Size : 19,3 MB

Release : 2015-07-17

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0823435164

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Twelve-year-old Clayton Stone is shocked when a top-secret government organization recruits him as a decoy in a kidnapping sting. Instantly, he gets drawn into the dangerous world of covert operations. Clayton's new life is full of excitement, with elaborate disguises and classified debriefings, but soon enough there's a gun against his neck. Clayton's transformation from middle-school lacrosse star to Special Service agent is full of suspense, humor and heart -- a thrilling undercover debut!