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Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify & Energize Your Life, Your Home & Your Planet, by Norma Lehmeier Hartie, is an indispensable reference book for anyone who cares about their health and well being and for the future of the planet. Hartie concisely covers a wide range of subjects and includes a comprehensive listing of advisory organizations, product and service resources. Part I of the book, Banish the Ugly from Your Life, is a blueprint for green, sustainable living. Discover how to replace toxic and unsustainable products from household cleaners to food (including recipes) to furniture to personal care products with safe, eco-friendly ones. Hartie is the tough but motivational Life Coach in her approach to cleaning, removing clutter and on organizing the home or office. Part II, Bring in the Beautiful to Create a Harmonious Environment and Self, includes a chapter on Earth-based spirituality and a fascinating look at the Four Elements (Earth, Fire, Air and Water) and the Medicine Wheel. The core of Hartie s philosophy blossoms in Chapter Seven, Applying Harmonious AdjustmentsTM: Using Feng Shui and Other Techniques for Powerful Results. Unlike other Feng Shui authors, Hartie has experience as a designer and her skills are apparent in this chapter and the following two. She has combined principles of Feng Shui, the Four Elements, color, energy, Vastu, and good design principles that create a unique and eclectic approach to home decorating. Finally, Hartie provides guidance on how to manifest personal or professional desires. In Part III, Putting the Pieces Together, Hartie skillfully integrates the many subjects of the book into a unified and cohesive whole. At its cover price of $19.95, Harmonious Environment is a value alone for the comprehensive green living product suppliers in the Resources section. What makes this book so truly ambitious, however, is what lies beneath the surface. In a sense, this book is only marginal.
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The Complete Guide to Flooring is the only truly comprehensive flooring book available, combining information on using flooring as a design element with complete step-by-step instructions for installing virtually any type of flooring-classic standards to the newest materials. The book covers ceramic tile, terrazo, natural stone, terra cotta, hardwood, wood laminate, floating plank, carpet, vinyl sheet, resilient tiles, cork, carpet tiles, leather, and the new plastic laminates. In addition, readers will learn how to repair problems with all types of flooring, how to soundproof and insulate floors, how to refinish hardwood floors, and how to create decorative paint finishes on wood floors. Flooring is one of the most visible finish surfaces in a home, and serves to unify the entire interior design. With this in mind, The Complete Guide to Flooring opens with an exciting idea section that shows the many ways in which flooring can enhance the appearance and function of a home. Following this is a chapter that introduces all types of flooring, discussing their merits and limitations. Next, a planning section shows all the preliminary steps-measuring, removing old flooring, evaluating and repairing the subfloor, estimating and ordering flooring. Then comes the heart of the book-complete instructions on how to install all types of flooring, with complete, easy-to-understand, step-by-step details. With no aspect of home flooring left unexamined, The Complete Guide to Flooring is destined to become a home improvement classic..
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This new Home Depot book takes the challenge out of installing and maintaining the most popular styles of flooring, and assures success even for beginners

The details that do-it-yourselfers want, and the education that buy-it-yourselfers need:

• Design and planning

• Selection and installation

• Care and repair

In-depth information on virtually any flooring project:

• Proper preparation

• Detailed materials lists

• Step-by-step how-to photos

Readers’ favorite features help simplify each project:

• Skill scales

• Buyer’s guides

• Tips from Home Depot pros

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The complete guide to choosing and installing floors.

Wall-to-wall carpet is no longer the only option for cost-conscious or do-it-yourself home decorators The Flooring Handbook reveals the extensive variety of flooring options available today that can add function, beauty and comfort to any area of a home.

Packed with practical information, The Flooring Handbook is a comprehensive reference that provides the latest in flooring materials and methods. This book describes the benefits of the basic flooring types in three broad categories: hard, semi-hard and soft, including:

• Hardwood
• Ceramic
• Tile
• Carpet
• Cork
• Linoleum (looking nothing like you remember it)
• Laminates
• Slate, stone and marble
• Leather, felt, rubber and steel

Detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations show how to lay different types of flooring under various circumstances. Color photographs of finished rooms demonstrate how various materials work to the best effect in a home. The Flooring Handbook is a comprehensive reference for designers, decorators and homeowners -- whether doing it themselves or hiring a professional.

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A comprehensive do-it-yourself tiling book that includes planning, designing, selecting, installing, and repairing .
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In this laugh-out-loud funny and inspiring autobiography, one of Hollywood’s best-loved comediennes muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS

In a book that is at once Hollywood hilarious and personally moving, Teri Garr, star of such classic films as Young Frankenstein, Oh God!, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr. Mom, and Tootsie, for which she received an Academy Award nomination, writes about her life with the same wit and warmth that have won the hearts of fans for over three decades.

From sipping Cokes with Elvis Presley to hangin’ with the Beatles; from her secrets to succeeding in Hollywood without losing her sanity, to dealing with the fear, anxiety, and denial of being plagued by mysterious physical problems that eluded diagnosis for over twenty years—the insights in Speedbumps, while always couched in Garr’s trademark humor, are honest, heartfelt, and often profound. BACKCOVER: “The driven comedian tells (almost) all…[and] she’s as dizzily funny as ever.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“Garr sticks to the truth whether it’s hysterically funny, or, at times, heart wrenching. Read this book, it’s a lesson in courage.”
—Mel Brooks.
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The Style Sourcebook is an encyclopedic catalog of 2,300 color swatches and other examples of the best in interior design products and materials Included are styles and traditions from the medieval and pre-16th century periods right through to the early 21st century. This revision is updated to ensure that discontinued products have been removed, up-to-the-minute products have been added, and contact details for distributors are current.

The information is provided in six main sections, each wide-ranging and detailed, with helpful commentary:

• Style Guide
• Tiles
• Paints and Finishes
• Wallpapers
• Fabrics
• Flooring.

All the major design styles are included. Entries are organized chronologically according to material and design, and every entry includes company, pattern name and number, colors, measurements, material composition and suggested use. The full-color swatches are large enough for viewing the product clearly. The book includes a glossary of terms and a detailed directory of distributors.

Working designers, decorators, stylists and design students will find The Style Sourcebook an essential reference, and home decorators will be inspired by its wide-ranging practicality.

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• Complete step-by-step guide that provides homeowners with everything they need to know to install a wide variety of floors and get beautiful, room-changing results.
• Step-by-step photography along with easy-to-understand and logically organized instructions that will give readers the confidence to install tile, wood, laminate floors as well as the sub-floor needed below.
• Updates all aspects of flooring covered in the original edition and offers up-to-date information on new flooring options such as snap together laminate floors.
• The most comprehensive and easiest to use do-it-yourself flooring guide on the market today.

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