The winter weather lets homeowners focus their fix-up plans on indoor projects. Here are some books for inspiration:
Deck the halls
A flip of the calendar is reason enough for some people to decorate their homes. Those are the people to whom “Celebrating Home: Decorating for the Holidays and Seasons” (Watson Guptill Publications, $29.95) is targeted. The book comes from the creative team of Seasons of Cannon Falls, a holiday and seasonal accent company in Minnesota. Throughout the books are photos of decorated rooms and seasonal vignettes, all created within River House, a historical home that showcases the company’s products.
Regular re-dos
Not everyone has a kitchen the size of a starter home. That’s why Peter Lemos wrote “Kitchens for the Rest of Us” (Taunton Press, $29.95).
Lemos, former editor-in-chief of Home magazine, focuses on 20 kitchen remodelings that involved more ingenuity than extravagance. All the kitchens are average size–about 150 square feet–and most of the renovation projects cost $30,000 to $50,000. Lemos explores how the homeowners overcame challenges to create kitchens that are stylish and functional, and he shares plenty of clever details ripe for copying.
All the trimmings
Jay Silber shows homeowners how to have a house with all the trimmings in “New Decorating with Architectural Trimwork” (Creative Homeowner, $19.95).
The book contains installation instructions for various types of millwork. It also has plenty of photos and ideas for beefing up a house’s trim for a variety of architectural styles.
