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This book about reclamation shows whats available and why salvage is a good option for people doing up their homes or wanting to have a stylish talking point whether it s stained glass windows, a vintage garden bench, Victorian roll-top bath or an Edwardian door or tiled fire surround. It also appeals to the fast-growing green market with its recycling element, plus reclaimed goods can be great value if you know what you re doing. This is an increasingly...
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Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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When community members work together with trucks and ships to clean up the town's riverfront, an artist and her child hammer, chisel, weld and zap the found materials into something beautiful. Young makers will find inspiration in the playful, rhyming text and mixed media illustrations, while endnotes provide recycled-art activity ideas.
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Batsford
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Explore two essential textile-art concepts with leading artist Shelley Rhodes. Fragmentation and repair are two of the biggest buzzwords in textile and mixedmedia art, and in this fascinating and beautiful book renowned textile artist Shelley Rhodes explores both concepts, with a wealth of fresh ideas, practical advice and inspiring examples from her own work and from embroiderers around the world, including Debbie Lyddon and Alice Fox. Fragmentation...
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Publisher
Hearst Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Decorate with repurposed, refurbished, and vintage items to stunning effect. Try wire cubbies for pretty bathroom storage; a tree trunk as a rustic nightstand; a bedspring as an inventive memo board; a breadbox to hold silverware and so much more!" --Back cover.
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Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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With gorgeous color photographs and step-by-step instructions, this book teaches the essential skills, like drilling glass, wire wrapping, and texturing metal, that will turn your beach-found bounty into attractive accessories including bracelets, pendants, earrings, and rings.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Looks at how to use flea market treasures to transform a home to reflect personal style, with tips on navigating markets, reinventing flea market finds, easy projects using vintage finds, and photographic home tours for inspiration.
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Publisher
Ryland Peters & Small
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English
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Full of creative and affordable ideas, Flea Market Style gives you all the information and inspiration that you need to create a beautiful and original home.
One person's trash is another person's treasure, as the saying goes. In Flea Market Style, stylist Emily Chalmers and interiors writer Ali Hanan will inspire you to discover a world of preloved and vintage treasures and use them to create a unique home. The duo reveal how to track down hidden...
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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When twelve-year-old Franny's estranged uncle comes home to help out after Nana's accident, some long-guarded family secrets come to light, forcing Franny to confront the discoveries she makes about her troubled absent mother, and herself.
14) The whimsical home: interior design with thrift store finds, flea market gems, and recycled goods
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Vintage clothing, vintage decor -- it simply never gets old and continues to be one of the hottest style trends! Now, you too can create a beautiful vintage home environment that is sure to be the envy all your peers. In The Whimsical Home, master crafters, Sania and Susanna, show us five different homes furnished with different vintage pieces. Each chapter ends with tips to achieve these fun and whimsical looks. And the best part? None of these exquisite...
18) The foraged home
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Thames & Hudson Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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A celebration of both sustainability and design, this book presents beautiful interiors filled with salvaged, recycled, and repurposed objects from around the world. Artful home interiors are born from curiosity, creativity, and imagination, yet many of us fail to see a potential curtain rod in a bamboo stick or a kitchen counter in an old carpenter's bench. Anyone can create a beautiful home without expensive store-bought pieces simply by foraging...
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Docurama
Language
English
Description
Follows Andy Goldsworthy's bohemian free spirit all over the world as he demonstrates and opens up about his creative process. From his long-winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multi-colored pools of flowers. Goldsworthy's painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in Mother Nature - who threatens and often succeeds in destroying his art, sometimes before it is even finished.