 | Style at Home
Buy new: $40.20 My favourite magazine, this is classic elegant style with a Euro chic flavour. Not minimalist boredom, but no flouncy overstuffed 80s/90's tacky designs.
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 | Pottery Barn Home (Pottery Barn Design Library)
Buy used from: $19.95 The best of their Home Design Library, with suggested paint colours and other great styling tips.
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 | Pottery Barn Storage & Display (Pottery Barn Design Library) by Martha Fay
Buy used from: $4.94 More from PB this teaches how to style your display spaces, bookshelves and more. The others in the series are great too. Love them.
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 | The Organized Home: Design Solutions for Clutter-Free Living by Randall Koll
Buy used from: $1.22 This is NOT about minimalist barren space, but all about designing rooms that work well, flow, and are easy to maintain. Make your life simpler.
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 | Use What You Have Decorating : Transform Your Home in One Hour With Ten Simple Design Principles -- Using the Space You Have, the Things You Like, the Budget You Choose by Lauri Ward
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.42 It's helpful to know "the rules" before you break them. This book and it's sequel Trade Secrets show the basics of well designed rooms in terms of furniture placement and shapes.
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 | Elegant and Easy Rooms: 250 Trade Secrets for Decorating Your Home by Dylan Landis
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.01 Great little paint "formulas" and tips to make your space look great. Uses American Benjamin Moore paint colours, but most have Canadian equivalents.
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 | Candice Olson on Design: Inspiration and Ideas for Your Home by Candice Olson
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.44 Rich lush looking current design.
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 | Designed to Sell: Make any home the hottest property on the block with expert advice from the popular HGTV series by HGTV
Buy used from: $3.25 Staging is about making homes look good enough to sell for more dollars. That translates into comfortable design and you never know when you may have to move. Be prepared.
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 | Curb Appeal by HGTV
Buy used from: $2.55 Cleaning up and improving your home's exterior improves your neighborhood, and protects your biggest investment. You never know when it will come in handy.
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 | French Style: A Little Style Book (International Style Book) by Suzanne Slesin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 The Europeans avoid a lot of expensive decor, they value antiques and have a timeless relaxed style that welcomes.
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 | French Country at Home by Kathy Passero
Buy used from: $3.18 one I'd like to own
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 | New French Country: A Style and Source Book by Linda Dannenberg
Buy used from: $8.79 another on my wish list
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 | Provencal Interiors: French Country Style in America by Betty Lou Phillips
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $7.19 wish list.
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 | Beautiful Easy Flower Gardens: Step-by-Step and Seasonal Plans for a Colorful, Exciting Landscape by Laurence Sombke
Buy used from: $0.01 What Aslett and Campbell did for housecleaning, this author does for garden design. Many simple easy designs to copy and plant in your area.
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 | Crockett's Victory Garden by James Underwood Crockett
Buy used from: $34.08 My other favourite garden basic. By season.
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 | Lois Hole's Rose Favorites by Lois Hole
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $3.65 Want easy care roses? It's easy, just pick from Lois's book. She runs a garden center in Alberta, not the easiest climate for roses. GREAT BOOK
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 | The Harrowsmith Perennial Garden: Flowers for Three Seasons by Patrick Lima
Buy used from: $0.02 Organized by mini seasons in the garden year, showing how to design for constant bloom.
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 | Lois Hole's Perennial Favorites by Lois Hole
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $3.27 Lois again, great gardener! Perennials are a VERY frugal garden backbone to have. Buy once, maintain a bit, and have a lovely garden forever!
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 | Lois Holes Bedding Plant Favorites (Lois Hole's Gardening Series Vol 2) by Lois Hole
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $3.95 Fill in the bare spots with annuals. Lois shows off her favourites.
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 | Lois Hole's Favorite Trees & Shrubs by Lois Hole
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $4.94 Trees and shrubs are the backbone of a good yard plan. Lois gives the best picks for each situation.
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 | Make Your House Do the Housework by Don Aslett
Buy used from: $0.75 More on making choices to make your life, cleaning etc go easier. I have loved this book for 18 years.
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 | Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time To De-junk Your Life! by Don Aslett
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $3.25 I've loved this for almost 2 decades. This book showed me how to let go of clutter so I could let the things I love give me joy. It's not about creating sterility, it's about choosing the best!
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 | Spring Cleaning by Jeff Campbell
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $0.01 Deep seasonal cleaning the easy way.
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 | Speed Cleaning by Jeff Campbell
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $1.37 How I learnt to clean fast and efficiently. The author calls it taking back your weekends and he is right. This is weekly cleaning.
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 | Clutter Control: Putting Your Home on a Diet by Jeff Campbell
Buy new: $8.80 / Used from: $0.01 My other favourite dejunking book. Clear out the clutter and make life and your decor simpler.
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