Living in a small space is no excuse for cramped quarters or a lack of style. This handy guide provides instructions on making the most of available space and demonstrates how careful consideration and a unique approach can turn any room into a luxurious accommodation. Clever design strategies that clear up usable floor area and produce better spatial quality are included along with a slew of tried and tested ways to making a small space appear bigger through the use of decoration and furnishings.
Introduction : themes and issues -- Heritage homes -- Idealising homes and homemaking -- Domestic modernity in suburbia -- Early media homes -- Property dramas and home makeovers -- Multiscreen home time -- Alternative domesticities -- Home ...
Although it means sticking to the original budget, low-cost decorating can be exciting and challenging. This book will show you that money does not make the difference when style is on the go!
Packed with clever ideas on room planning and layout, space-expanding storage, space-defying decorating and space-saving furnishing, as well as on how to physically or visually divide a big space into smaller ones for separate functions, ...
In The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across northern Europe and America, and shows how the 'homes' we know today bear only a faint resemblance to 'homes' though ...