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Hardware Style: 100 Creative Decorating Ideas Using Materials from Every Aisle of the Home Center Store

Hardware Style: 100 Creative Decorating Ideas Using Materials from Every Aisle of the Home Center Store
By Marthe Le Van

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It’s the most creative how-to book to come along in years, and it’s now at a great price! These 100 great ideas will change the way do-it-yourselfers look at their local home improvement center—and revolutionize home décor. With a layout inspired by the store’s floor plan, this abundantly photographed guide tours all the different departments, from plumbing to hardware, electrical to lawn and garden, suggesting a host of imaginative ways to use what’s on the shelves. Many of the projects take advantage of the latest decorating trend, repurposing, where items conceived for one function are used in an entirely different, original way. With only basic techniques, craft curtain tiebacks from welded chain, transform glass or metal screens into coasters, turn copper plumbing pipe into candleholders, and much more.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #2362778 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-12-31
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 144 pages

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Repurposing--using common items in new ways--is "today's most acclaimed decorating practice," according to Le Van, who worked with several designers to create this collection of ingenious projects inspired by hardware. The projects, which include a plumbing parts candelabra and oilcan vase, are organized by the home-supply store departments (electrical, lumber, etc.) that inspired them. Clear, step-by-step directions will guide readers through construction, although some ideas, such as the hardware spice cabinet, involve no work at all--just the pure repurposing of a finished object. High-quality color photographs show off the finished products, pictured in stylish, often lofty interiors that work well with the industrial look of many designs. But readers who like a softer, more refined decorating style will also find plenty of ideas here. Free spirited, low cost, and attractive, these are projects that will suit a wide range of interiors and abilities and will appeal to do-it-yourselfers looking for creative home design. A list of suppliers and project templates close the book. Gillian Engberg
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