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

By Marthe Le Van

Book Overview

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 dcor. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579906079
• ISBN13: 9781579906078
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Lark Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.3" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Now I see how shallow I've been...

I've always thought that I'm pretty creative in the home improvement store. My husband usually has to drag me out because I stand there gazing at whatever it is for ages while envisioning other uses. But now I know that I've barely scratched the surface of the great realm of possibilities...I will have to hide this book from my husband, before he hides it from me!