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A History of Interior Design, 3rd Edition
The first edition of this major survey on interior design by John Pile won the 2001 ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) Educational Foundation/Joel Polsky Prize. Now this standard history has been updated to reflect greater coverage of nonWestern design, as well as vernacular and
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Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers
For the first time, beginning interior designers can learn how to graphically communicate their ideas with a resource that is designed specifically for them! While traditional drafting books focus on architectural and engineering readers, Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers eliminates t
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AutoCAD 2005 for Interior Design and Space Planning Using AutoCAD 2005
Ideal for courses in Interior Design, Space Planning, ComputerAided Design, Computer Graphics and Architectural Graphics, this manual teaches users how to make architectural drawings using a computer and the AutoCAD 2005 program. This easytounderstand book employs the promptresponse format
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AutoCAD for Interior Design and Space Planning 2009
Organized around architectural projects, AutoCAD for Interior Design and Space Planning gives students an understanding of the commands and features of AutoCAD 2009 and demonstrates how to use the program to complete interior design and space planning projects. Building on thirteen years of u
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Becoming an Interior Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design, 2nd Editi
Interior design encompasses the design of residential and commercial spaces. It is a profession that has changed dramatically in the last 40 years, shifting from decoration to a mastery of technical information. 336pp.
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Bob Harris' Guide to Stained Concrete Interior Floors
Learn how to turn concrete slabs into works of art your customers will cherish, and in return, reward you with a lifetime of repeat business. This new book shows you concrete design options available today, how to estimate costs of different techniques and compare those costs to other floor covering
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Building Doors DVD
Available September 1st, 2009. Purchase now and you are not charged until your order is shipped! No matter what kind of cabinet you're building, it's the doors that get most of the attention. Everyone can see the doors so you want them to be attractive. A
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Building Drawers DVD
Available September 1st, 2009. Purchase now and you are not charged until your order is shipped! If you take a good look inside a few houses, you'll find all types of drawers each with its own style and functionality. There are dozens of ways to build dra
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Building Systems for Interior Designers
Building Systems for Interior Designers is the first book to explain technical building systems and engineering issues in a clear and accessible way to interior designers. The technical knowledge and vocabulary presented here allow interior designers to communicate more effectively with architects,
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Building Systems for Interior Designers, 2nd Edition
Written in a straightforward, nontechnical style that maintains depth and accuracy, this landmark reference is the first text on building systems for interior designers. From heating and cooling systems, water and waste, electricity, lighting, interior transportation and communication systems
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Business and Legal Forms for Interior Designers
This latest addition to the bestselling Business and Legal Forms series provides 42 essential forms and checklists all ready to copy and put to immediate use in any interior design studio! Each form includes stepbystep instructions and can be used as is, or easily tailored to meet a specific
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Color in Interior Design
Create dazzling color schemes for any indoor space. You'll quickly sharpen your color skillsand open the door to a more rewarding and profitable career with John F. Pile's Color in Interior Design. He takes the mystery out of working with color, showing you stepbystep how to plan color
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Color Planning for Interiors: An Integrated Approach to Color in Desig
You'll learn to systematically develop innovative, holistic color solutions in interior design with this book's evidencebased approach to color planning. The author sets forth a color planning framework that integrates multiple criteria, enabling you to fully consider the complex role that c
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Concrete Countertops Made Simple
In seven simple steps, the clear, complete directions in this book and companion DVD give you everything you need to create a customized concrete countertop that's functional and attractive. If building a concrete countertop doesn't strike you as a traditional home improvement project, you're
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Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors: Basic Skills
This is a clearance item. Limited quantities available. Prices good while supplies last. No backorders accepted. Clearance prices not valid with any other discount. All Sales are final. Get a realisitic guide to producing construction documents that clearly communicate the interi
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Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors: Basic Skills, 2nd Edi
Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors serves as the essential reference for designers preparing interior construction documents, explaining how to do a new construction, remodeling, or installation project. In a highly visual format, the book covers drafting fundamentals an
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Designing Commercial Interiors
The first and only book of its kind, Designing Commercial Interiors provides students and professional designers with expert guidance on the full range of practical, aesthetic, and psychosocial issues involved in designing for nonresidential interiors. Drawing on nearly a halfcentury of experience
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Drywall Instructor's Guide
The Instructor's Guide contains answers to the questions in the text.
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Drywall
Drywall is a comprehensive text detailing the principles and practices of the drywall trade. Math concepts are presented with special emphasis on the math skills required to measure and cut drywall. Common materials, tools, and equipment are described and shown in use. This concise text covers me
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Entourage, 4th Edition
The premier tracing file for design professionals is now updated and expanded to include stateoftheart tools and techniques! Invaluable to architects, commercial artists, interior designers, draftpersons, and graphic designers, the 4th Edition of this trusted reference features l
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Estimating for Interior Designers
The first edition of Estimating for Interior Designers quickly became the bible for interior designers everywhere. This completely updated and revised edition provides all the basic, nutsandbolts information readers expect, along with allnew sections on faux finishing, including tromp
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Evidence-Based Healthcare Design
If designed properly, a healthcare interior environment can foster healing, efficient taskperformance and productivity, effective actions, and safe behavior. Written by an expert practitioner, Rosalyn Cama, FASID, this is the key book for interior designers and architects to learn the metho
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Finish Carpentry: Efficient Techniques for Custom Interiors
This new book contains over 500 photos and illustrations from real job sites that show you how to achieve exceptional finish carpentry results in record time. You'll learn how to install windows, doors, baseboard, crown molding, and more. Find out about the tools, jigs and templates that let you
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Finishing Concrete with Color and Texture
This publication is a basic guide for planning and constructing decorative concrete surfaces on concrete slabs. While intended primarily for concrete contractors, it also will be useful to concrete finishers, concrete finishers apprentices, homebuilders, general contractors, architects, engineers, l
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Graphic Standards Field Guide to Commercial Interiors
This is the first book in the new Graphic Standards Field Guide Series. This visual reference helps readers take Interior Graphic Standards content into the field. The portable format allows quick access to the most common information about commercial interiors that interior architect
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How Your House Works
A musthave reference for every homeowner, handyman, and contractor for repair, remodeling, and new construction. Why is my faucet leaking, my toilet running, or my dishwasher refusing to start? Can I fix it myself? What’s causing the heating system to smell bad or the foundation
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IESNA Lighting Ready Reference
This Lighting Ready Reference is a compendium of the most often used materials from the IESNA Lighting Handbook, 9th Edition, acknowledged throughout the industry as the source of lighting information. This latest edition of the Ready Reference offers selected material from the Handbook in a highly
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Inside the Not So Big House
Americas favorite home architect Sarah Susanka takes an upclose look at the wellcrafted details that can be used to personalize any home, whether new or remodeled. Susanka illustrates these builtin elements with inspiring examples from 24 homes across America and shows how paying attention
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Interior Design Illustrated, 2nd Edition
The bestselling approach to interior design improved and updated in a new edition. Francis D.K. Ching's integrated approach to interior design is now updated and expanded in this new Second Edition. A functional and beautifully illustrated work, Interior Design Illustrated offers a thorough intr
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Interior Design in a Flash
If you are preparing for the NCIDQ exam, these 400 cards will challenge your recall of important definitions, principles, codes, and standards. Each card contains key information in the form of a question and you can assess your knowledge by looking at the answers on the reverse side of the card.
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Interior Design Portable Handbook
Architect Pat Guthries convenient pocket reference helps interior designers, decorators, and architects create workable, onthespot design solutions by putting the latest codes and standards, costs, materials, and specification information at their fingertips. Completely updated for the latest c
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Interior Design Visual Presentation: A Guide to Graphics, Models & Pre
Interior Design Visual Presentation, Third Edition is the unique, uptodate resource addressing the visual design and presentation skills of the interior designer. This new edition offers thorough, processoriented coverage on the planning, layout, and design of interior building spaces, complete w
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Interior Graphic and Design Standards
This book, the most comprehensive and basic working tool available to the design professional, encompasses every area of expertise required in the practice of contemporary interior design. Architects, interior designers, drafters, specifiers, and designers and manufacturers of building materials
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Interior Graphic Standards
Following in the tradition of Architectural Graphic Standards, and echoing the same illustrationpacked format, this new work addresses every topic essential to interior architecture space planning, material selection, acoustics and lighting, air quality, accessibility…even the selection of fixture
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Interior Graphic Standards CD-ROM
This is a completely electronic version of the most comprehensive professional reference on commercial interior, Interior Graphic Standards. The CDROM's database includes the entire contents of the book, indexed for easy search and retrieval of information. Interior Graphic Standards CDROM
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Interior Lighting for Designers, 4th Edition
The revised edition of the highly successful, seminal book that has introduced generations of architects and designers to the principles of lighting. Written by one of the world's masters of architectural lighting design, Interior Lighting for Designers, Fourth Edition clearly and concisely
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Lighting Design Basics
Tothepoint, fundamental knowledge of lighting design. Lighting is a basic, yet difficulttomaster, element of interior design, and Lighting Design Basics offers essential knowledge of this complex subject in a concise, highly visual format. Two leading practicing designers, with many
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Lighting Handbook Reference 2000, 9th Edition, Hardcover With CD-ROM
The 9th Edition of the IESNA Lighting Handbook is the heart of a comprehensive library of technical standards and guides. Included in one comprehensive volume is everything one needs to know about lighting explanations of concepts, techniques, applications, procedures and systems, as well as detai
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Marketing and Client Relations for Interior Designers
To be a successful interior designer, it's essential to market yourself and your firm effectively. A mustread for interior designers establishing a client base, as well as for seasoned interior designers aiming to grow their businesses, Marketing and Client Relations for Interior Designers offer
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Materials for Interior Environments
There are thousands of products available for use in interior environments, every one with its assets and disadvantages. The process of selecting the right interior materials for the job can be bewildering. This book is a guide to knowing, evaluating, and selecting materials that will look good,
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Medical and Dental Space Planning: A Comprehensive Guide to Design, Eq
Medical and Dental Space Planning is an indispensable guide to the myriad of details that make a medical or dental practice efficient and productive. The unique needs of more than thirty specialties, as well as primary care, are explained in the context of new technology and the many recent regulato
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Place Advantage: Applied Psychology for Interior Architecture
This guide to personcentered place design shows architects, landscape architects, and interior designers how to develop spaces that enrich human experience using concepts derived from qualitative and quantitative research. Design practitioners will find applied, accessible environmental psyc
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Professional Practice for Interior Designers, 4th Edition
The most comprehensive business guide for designers, Professional Practice for Interior Designers has been used by tens of thousands of professional and aspiring designers. Piotrowski covers the issues unique to the interior design profession in a clear and wellorganized style. From establishi
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Residential Housing & Interiors - Student Guide
Activities are designed to help students review content and develop critical thinking skills. A wide variety of activities are provided for various learning styles. 266 pp.
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Residential Housing & Interiors - Textbook
Residential Housing & Interiors acquaints students with planning, building, decorating, and landscaping a home, and working in the housing industry. An expanded teaching guide includes student handouts and transparencies to enliven your lessons. 589 pp. Features
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Residential Lighting: A Practical Guide to Beautiful and Sustainable D
Written by internationally recognized lighting consultant Randall Whitehead, this popular, easytoread lighting design guide offers a highly visual introduction to the fundamentals of illuminating the singlefamily home. Emphasizing the use of light layering?using a variety of lighting sourc
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Shelves, Cabinets & Bookcases
In just about any room in the house, it's great to have some extra storage space to keep things organized and uncluttered. If you want to create customized storage spaces for your home, Shelves, Cabinets & Bookcases offers everything you need to design and build sturdy, functional, attra
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Space Planning Basics, 3rd Edition
Space planning involves much more than sketching a preliminary floor plan. A designer must take a client's programming needs into account and must also consider how other factors such as building codes and environmental factors affect a spatial composition. Space Planning Basics, now in its T
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Space Planning for Commercial and Residential Interiors
Impress clients and expand your expertise with this oneofakind instructional manual and professional toolkit. Space Planning for Commercial and Residential Interiors is the only professionallevel resource available in this field, this reference supplies all the guidance and tools you need to
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Specifying Interiors: A Guide to Construction and FF&E for Commercial
Writing effective commercial specifications requires detailed knowledge of contractual obligations, industry regulations and standards, and material selection criteria. But keeping abreast of the vast and everchanging body of facts, figures, rules, and regulations concerning tenant improvement work
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Stanley Complete Drywall
Complete stepbystep instruction to build or repair walls and ceilings. Basic techniques to plan, select, cut, hang, tape, and sand drywall. Addresses drywall remodeling issues, and unusual situations. Professional drywall techniques for corners, curved walls, arched ceilings, and specialty fini
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Stanley Complete Trimwork & Carpentry
Stanley pros offer novices and experts shortcut tips and advice on how to avoid pitfalls. Stepbystep details and photography simplify dozens of projects to construct and finish walls. Projects provide instructions for common carpentry solutions plus unusual situations. Advice and techniques to
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Successful Restaurant Design, 2nd Edition
Successful Restaurant Design, Second Edition approaches the design of restaurants as a process that begins with a solid understanding of interdependent systems. From the main guest entrance to the rear loading dock, this exemplary resource examines how each of these components functions, both on its
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Taunton's for Pros By Pros: Built-Ins and Storage
Storage never goes out of style. No matter how big the house, families always need more storage, which makes creating storage one of the magic words in the world of home building and remodeling. Builtin details that work well and look great start with the expert advice, tips, shortcuts, and
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Taunton's For Pros By Pros: Cabinets and Countertops
Mistakes are costly when dealing with cabinets and countertops they're typically the most expensive components in the most expensive room. So whether you're building them or just installing them, your job is much easier when you arm yourself with the best information possible. These 17 articl
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Taunton's For Pros by Pros: Finish Carpentry
Pleasing proportions, clean lines, flawless miters, and other wellcrafted details are all measures of excellence for finish carpentry. Finish Carpentry takes you to the job site to see exactly how topnotch trim carpenters get interior detailing done right. A collection of articles from i
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Taunton's For Pros by Pros: Finish Carpentry, 3rd Edition
With the emergence of new tools and materials over the last few years, the role of a finish carpenter has evolved. Of course, the basic skills are still required. But more sophisticated tools demand new skills and techniques.Finish Carpentry covers it all from the basic fundamenta
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Taunton's for Pros By Pros: Renovating a Bathroom
Bathrooms demand a builder's best work. As the average size of bathrooms continues to grow and homeowners demand that they have as much style as any other room in the house, the challenges facing anyone undertaking a bathroom remodeling project multiply. Written by architects, builders, plumb
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Taunton's for Pros By Pros: Renovating a Kitchen
Kitchen remodeling is one of the most expensive and intensive remodeling projects you can undertake in any house. The process involves important design decisions about cabinets, countertops, lighting, appliances, layout, and finish treatments. In Renovating a Kitchen, a collection of
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The Codes Guidebook for Interiors, 3rd Edition
Now available in an updated and expanded third edition, The Codes Guidebook for Interiors incorporates the latest standards for interior projects. The book presents the International Building Code, Life Safety Code, NFPA 5000, ICC/ANSI accessibility standard, and many others in a clear, ja
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The Codes Guidebook for Interiors, 4th Edition
The only guide devoted exclusively to codes applicable to interiors, The Codes Guidebook for Interiors, Fourth Edition features jargonfree explanations of all the codes and standards of concern to designers and architects, including performance codes, fire codes, building and finish standards, e
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The Codes Guidebook for Interiors, Study Guide, 3rd Edition
Now available in an updated and expanded third edition, The Codes Guidebook for Interiors incorporates the latest standards for interior projects. The book presents the International Building Code, Life Safety Code, NFPA 5000, ICC/ANSI accessibility standard, and many others in a clear, ja
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The Graphic Standards Guide to Architectural Finishes
This powerful visual resource combines hundreds of illustrations from Architectural Graphic Standards with corresponding building material performance and specification information from AIA's MASTERSPEC, published by ARCOM. Use this book during the schematic and design development phases of a projec
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The IESNA Lighting Handbook On CD-ROM, 2000, 9th Edition
The Handbook provides uptodate coverage of lighting development, evaluation and interpretation of technical and research findings, and their application guidelines.The most significant change in the new 9th edition is the new procedure for determining the quality and quantity for lighti
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The Interior Design Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Profitabili
The Interior Design Business Handbook presents cuttingedge procedures, tools, and techniques for managing a successful interior design business. Filled with essential information presented in an easytouse format, this comprehensive reference is an invaluable component of any design firm's daily o
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The Interior Design Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Profitabili
Discover how you can run your practice more profitably. This comprehensive guide to managing an interior design business gives you an arsenal of proven procedures and practical tools and techniques perfected over the course of some thirty years. New to this edition are an expanded focus on the u
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Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning
Interior designers, architects, and other design professionals can still turn to the field's beloved Silver Bible for a wealth of information related to the design and planning of residential and commercial interiors. But now, TimeSaver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, Second Editi
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Universal Design Ideas for Style, Comfort & Safety
If you’re building or remodeling and want to offer your customers something extra, consider Universal Design a valuable feature that helps people of any age, but especially older homeowners, more fully and safely enjoy their homes. Whether your clients are parents of young children,
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