Turf

By Anthony Garay

Make it your place Quit dumpster-diving and listen up: you can build all the stuff you need for your apartment. Say "no thanks" to the creepy castoffs from grandma's garage and junk lurking along the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558707611
• ISBN13: 9781558707610
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: HOW Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Find and Helpful!

First I'd like to say this is a very informational book for those on a low budget but like art deco style furniture. As a former college student, I know how hard it is to manage day to day life on a budget, and still have nice things in your home. Well if you follow this book, you will get some nice things (especially like the wine rack)! As for those who wrote a bad review because the author had an "attitude," I don't think there is any pettiness involved in reviewing your own book. It's a great accomplishment! Before you go about giving someone's book that you haven't even read bad reviews(which isn't even fair!), write your own, come back and let us tear apart all your [years] of hard work. Good job author! 5 stars!

Cool Stuff

This book is aimed at a super specific target market, so it won't be everything to everyone. I'm a little out of the $50 or less dormroom furniture stage of my life, but I still found some things in here that are useful. I realled liked the wine rack and the palette coffee table is probably the coolest coffee table I've ever seen. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes DIY projects.

I thought is was great

Well, maybe this is just my glass-half-full attitude shining through, but I thought that this book was very successful at doing what it set out to do. I'm not sure how someone could be disappointed in it-- no book can be all things to all people, and I thought that this one did a nice job showing how to use common, hardware store materials to put together some funky furnishings. There was nothing I really would've changed, and I'll admit to being a design junkie who gets a little cynical from time to time. Will I run out and build every project exactly as it is shown? No, but I read a lot of design books and there isn't enough time in the day to actually build everything that's out there. What I really got out of the book was some specific advice for building stuff with this kind of urban, artsy, creative edginess and I will definitely refer back to it in the future. I think it helps to keep an open mind and view this book as general inspiration, in addition to containing instructions for specific pieces. I'm sure that a lot of people will find this to be a useful guidebook, whether they want to follow the directions step to step or just get ideas in general.

Save the cr@ppy reviews for books you've actually read!

I got this one sight unseen - and I love it. I'm already redesigning (or rather, resizing) the tv stand for use as an end table, and construction will begin in the next week. As with anything, most of the projects can be adapted to your own needs by changing materials, paint, or size. It's all about ideas. Take something in this book and make it your own. The author says something to that effect in the foreword. I'm enjoying this book immensely.

I'm the author

i hope more people who look through the book will review it here. of course i'm going to give it 5 stars, but i'd really like to know what other readers think! please share your comments, good or bad! c: (ag) turf@superoffciial.biz