Just as Rob Thallon's Graphic Guide to Frame Construction is the standard for residential frame construction details, this carefully researched volume is the authoritative guide to interior construction details. This essential reference helps readers choose and install floors, walls, ceilings, cabinets, countertops, trim and stairs.

You'll find information about virtually every material involved in interior construction -- common and uncommon, residential and commercial -- so you can compare key factors and make the best decision for all your projects.

Hundreds of clear, thorough drawings are easily incorporated into arthictural plans and detail how all these materials connect to the structure of a building and to each other. Thallon covers hundreds of interior assemblies appropriate for light frame construction, including plaster and drywall, wood flooring, tile, terrazzo, solid-surface countertop and more. All information comes from actual job sites and has been reviewed for accuracy by architects and builders from across the country.

The personal spaces in which we choose to live and work, and the individual elements within them, be they inspired by food, fashion or the interior, are increasingly used to reflect our mood, character and identity. Wild at Heart introduces the idea of using flowers to create evocative and personal statements about the owner or about the space. This approach breaks down conventional barriers and looks beyond the self-conscious arrangement of blooms. Instead it embraces a natural simplicity and a sensitive response to the alluring, 'wild' power of flowers, while also injecting design sophistication and a cutting-edge vision.

This book is structured by individual moods, or interior atmospheres, explaining how an environment can be enhanced or created by the choice of flowers and by their presentation. Each chapter sets the scene for the mood, exposing its different facets of with ideas of how flowers help to capture it. Locations for the displayed flowers cover the various rooms in our homes, as well as introducing flowers in less conventional environments. Specially commissioned photography reflects a highly individual and moody response to each photographed environment. Photographs sometimes incorporate the movement of figures, emphasising that flowers should be integrated with people rather than used in solitary grandeur. The approach is open and direct, not giving rigid recipes, but introducing ideas for using flowers that give the reader the freedom to interpret arrangements in ways that relate to their own lives and their own environment.
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• make pockets that don't gap
• shape darts to enhance the fit
• make an easy pull-on waistband
• sew invisible hems
• insert foolproof zippers
• sew pleats that hang straight
• make a comfortable fitted waistband
• change the grainline for a flattering shape

• change a round neckline to a flattering V
• add elegant refinements to your pattern that off-the-rack tops don't include
• make a drapey bias-cut shell
• add designer details to your pattern
• make a perfect, flat hem on a knit top
• use stenciling, dying, and stamping to jazz up your fabric

These days, home is often the only place to relax, excape anxiety, and enjoy time with your family. It's no wonder more people are now spending more money and time on their home and its comforts.

Recognizing this trend, author Jim Tolpin asked some of the country's top residential architects for examples of homes designed specifically with families in mind. You'll find homes here for traditional, single-parent, blended, and extended families. You'll find layouts that are flexible and rooms that can adapt to different uses over time as the family's needs change. There are inspiring color photographs and floor plans for 25 different homes.

Come take a ride with Jim Tolpin as he visits some of the most charming new cottages in North America -- homes where quality of place is set above quantity of space. Whether by the water, on a mountain, or in a forest, field, or town, the new American cottage has a unique, heartfelt appeal.

In this rich, full-color book, Tolpin walks you through recently constructed, classic-style cottages that evoke intimacy and architectural integrity. You'll discover the elements that make the homes personal and eminently livable. You'll see 30 sparkling jewels of cottage design from the shores of the Atlantic to the beaches of the West Coast and the fields and forests of the American heartland. The scaled-down lifestyle represented here will serve as both inspiration and models for building your own cottage home.

Learn how to build premium cabinetry of superior quality in your own shop...from layout and design to installation and final adjustment. Jim Tolpin simplifies the process of building cabinets by using modern hardware and joinery systems that are fast and foolproof to execute. He shows ho to construct easily handled cabinet modules and how to customize face frames, doors, and drawers in the style you choose. With the help of this book and basic shop tools, you can build a complete set of kitchen cabinets that will add beauty and value to any home.

Here are some of the best examples of built-in furniture and cabinetry for nearly every room in the house. Jim Tolpin treats you to a room-by-room survey of unique design solutions and strategies that you can use to add functional and delightful built-ins to your home.

Built-in furnishings offer many advantages over freestanding furniture: They are generally less expensive to build than stand-alone furniture of the same type and size. They give you great latitude in designing the look and function of your interior spaces -- you are not limited to designing around existing furniture pieces. And because of the manner in which built-in furnishings are constructed, you can maximize the use of the most unusual spaces while creating an effective and aesthetically pleasing design solution.

If you dream of running your own successful woodworking business, make this book your guide. Jim Tolpin has the business of woodworking down to a science. Here he tells you how he's done that. Tolpin details the three factors that lead to a successful one- to two-person shop: preparing and manufacturing the work, and running the business -- including keeping the books straight and wooing clients.

"This book belongs in the library of every woodworker thinking, or merely dreaming, of opening his own shop."

Jack Warner, Atlanta Journal Constitution