Elspeth Thompson

Ros Badger

This small book is bursting with over 25 projects and inspirations to help you make your home truly unique at Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentine's and Birthdays. Complete with step-by-step instructions and beautiful, practical photography you can easily and affordably transform your home for every occasion. Covering a range of skills but all suitable for beginners, anyone can make contemporary and personalised decorations. Making your own decorations is the best way to add a touch of personality and creativity to your home during the festive periods; a fun, family friendly activity to help everyone get into the spirit and a brilliant way to do something a bit different every year. Shop bought decorations just can't compare! From a birthday piata to knitted angels and baubles, an Easter tree, a Halloween window decoration and fragrant rose petal stuffed hearts - each piece will be truly priceless and truly individual to make your festive celebrations extra special.

Homemade Christmas and Festive Decorations

Melanie Eclare

Use this practical guide to imbue your backyard with artistic expression, no matter the size. Having a beautiful garden shouldn't require hours of weeding and planting. Here, you will learn how to transform your garden with the clever use of decorative elements such as gravel, water, and sculpture. Popular columnist Elspeth Thompson showcases seven distinctive gardens created from spaces ranging from terrace and city nook to suburban garden and country retreat, demonstrating how easily you can recreate your space. Utilizing decorative elements like topiaries, potted plants, mosses, rocks, lighting, and art, Elspeth designs striking havens that can be adapted to suit your mood or the season.

Transform your outside space into a haven of calm and tranquility

New Decorated Garden

Tricia Guild

A series of innovative patterns for interiors and furniture reflects the renowned designer's use of bold fabrics, wallpapers, and colors, in a collection that features pieces that draw on historical and global patterns that can be incorporated for a range of themes and effects. 15,000 first printing.

Tricia Guild Pattern

Gilles De Chabaneix

For over 25 years, Tricia Guild has been at the cutting edge of contemporary design. Her ability to mix vibrant color and pattern and her imaginative use of modern arts and crafts translates particularly well to city living. With the help of Elspeth Thompson’s stimulating essays and Gilles de Chabaneix’s luminous photos, Trisha Guild in Town presents a blueprint for modern urban living.

Contemporary Design for Urban Living

Tricia Guild in Town

Published on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Designers Guild, this lavishly illustrated portfolio showcases the latest interior designs by one of the world's most acclaimed designers. This is Tricia Guild's most ambitious and sumptuous book to date: a stunning survey of interiors that feature her signature sense of "contemporary traditional" style with layers of pattern, bold colors, and varying textures. Always at the forefront of interior design, Tricia Guild has achieved critical acclaim with her up-to-the-minute collections of fabrics, wallpapers, and furnishings that showcase her unparalleled gift for color, innate understanding of space and proportion, and sheer brilliance at mixing patterns and textures. She blends femininity and understated elegance in her uniquely innovative yet classic approach whether designing a sleek Manhattan loft, a casual English country bedroom, a rustic Mediterranean-style hacienda, or an eclectic Parisian apartment. Truly a feast for the eye, the book features layers of pattern and color, a stunning binding with several different materials and textures, and three different types of paper. Original six-color photographs and a text rich in insights from the designer's own design briefs and sketches make this a useful sourcebook for professionals and will inspire anyone aspiring to decorate their own home.

Colors, Patterns, and Space

For too many of us the weekend has become just another overcrowded couple of days dominated by duties, traffic jams, hassle and expense as we dash from supermarket to superstore catching up with the week's chores. But it doesn't have to be this way. Elspeth Thompson's original and inspiring book shows us how we can reclaim the weekend by re-charging our batteries and relationships through enjoying the simple pleasures in life. From watching the sunset and the stars, making marmalade and writing proper letters to borrowing a dog, going to dance classes and using the internet creatively, she reminds us of the fun and satisfaction to be had from creative, social and relaxing pursuits. The Wonderful Weekend Book is packed with ideas that will help restore the balance in our lives, reconnect us to the seasons, and - quite literally - not cost the earth.

Elspeth Thompson

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