The ultimate indulgence, this home improvement is sure to make you the envy of your neighbors. A hot tub or spa, whether in a sunroom, patio, or under a pavilion, provides the perfect escape. Soothing jets, long soaks, and lovely vistas add up to improved quality of life. Herein is a colorful portfolio of nearly 200 custom-made spas filled with inspiring ideas for your own personal oasis of mental health. Crafted by members of the Master Pools Guild, these spas embody the best in stone, tile, concrete, and brickwork married to the latest technological gadgetry -- remote controls, decorative...

This idea-packed compendium presents the work of today's top wood artists in over 500 photos. More than 130 artists from nine countries are showcased, including furniture makers, turners, and sculptors who borrow ideas and techniques from one another to create their art. Their disciplines have blurred as furniture makers use sculpture and turnings in their work, as turners make furniture and sculpture, and as sculptors throw purism to the winds and use anything and everything to further their expressive ideas. Woodworkers in every discipline will marvel at the creativity, artisanship, and...

Discover creative and unique ways to increase seating, utilize storage space, and spice up a room with dozens of full color photographs displaying beautiful window seats and other built-in seating. Whether it's your most lived-in area, kitchen, bath, or even your home office, window seats offer comfort and style to the home. This book includes ideas on how to change the look and feel of a room with a window seat, and offers a resource guide to help homeowners transform the possibilies into realities.

For those who dream of living in a log home, this treasure trove of images will be a welcome delight . Now in its second edition, the book has been expanded to include images of 18 new homes. The first edition inspired thousands of would-be log home builders. Nearly 50 homes are pictured in all, complete with floor plans as well as gorgeous imagery of both interiors and exteriors. This is a gold mine of visual ideas for designing, building, and decorating log homes. Study these dazzling ispaces and compare house profiles, room layouts, and decorating and furnishing ideas for great rooms,...

In this long-awaited new volume, classics by Herman Miller's super-designers -- Gilbert Rohde, Charles and Ray Eames, and George Nelson -- are shown along with more recent office furniture designs. Furniture designs are described in detail and shown in color and black-and-white photographs, all from the Herman Miller archives. An essay on the history of the office, designer biographies, company chronology, appendix, bibliography, index, and value guide make this book essential for collectors, dealers, curators, designers, and other devotees of modernism. Herman Miller was the first American...

Born from the bold, provocative aircraft nose art splashed across war birds of World War II, Lowbrow Art was carried to the streets by the mechanics and car builders of the 1950s and 1960s. Dripping with rich color, street-level sensibilities, and flamboyant style, Lowbrow Art was custom built in those middle decades of the twentieth century around racy cars and racier women. Presented here in over 250 full-color images, is the contemporary artwork of twenty ambitious ladies, each a talented artist who has staked a claim in this outsider art genre, once produced solely by and for men. In the...