Materials and Components of Interior Design

By J. Rosemary Riggs and Rosemary J. Riggs

Book Overview

This design book is concerned with the materials that can be used on floors, walls, ceilings, doors, hardware, kitchens and bathrooms. This new edition looks at paint, adds a new chapter on carpeting, and includes new photographs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0135713242
• ISBN13: 9780135713242
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Essential hands on reference

If you're a student, designer or prospective builder and you need concise, practical answers to questions on the issues of materials & their methods of installation, then look no further. This book gets down to the "nuts & bolts" of the industry by fully covering all of the exciting finishing & structural materials available on the market today. Once you've read this, you'll be able to talk knowledgeably with architects & contractors about these materials, including their installation & maintenance. Then you can use your know-how to decide which materials & methods are best instead of what's the easiest to do. Whether you're involved with new design or revovation work, you'll be able to make on-target decisions about - Paints, floors, walls and ceilings - the components of a well designed room, such as mouldings, doors, hardware, hinges, fireplaces and stoves - the structure & design of the cabinetry - kitchen cabinets & appliances - bathrooms, both residential & institutional.. to further help you, there's a new, updated list of products & their manufacturers alaong with their addresses. New photographs, over 100 illustrations, an expanded section on metal walls with a photograph, and a glossary at the end of each chapter further highlight the text's unusually thorough guidance.