Innovative design ideas that will inspire and delight. The home decorator, whether amateur or professional, must first resolve several challenges before beginning any project: How can original features be saved or enhanced? - How can individuality be added? - Should the design be simple or ornate? Classic or modern? - How can colors be coordinated? This unique sourcebook provides answers to these questions and countless others. Lavishly illustrated with more than 800 stunning color photographs, 1000 Home Ideas features innovative design solutions for: Walls - Flooring - Steps and banisters - Doors and windows - Cupboards and shelving With beautiful photos and engaging text, 1000 Home Ideas will appeal to the designer/interior decorator inside every home owner's heart. It also offers better value than an armful of magazines. Although Cliff gives minimal decorating advice, the hundreds of Sarramon's photos, depicting a variety of styles, will provide inspiration for both amateur and professional designers. Arranged by the type of building detail, such as doors, fireplaces, and book shelving, the book focuses on each particular feature rather than showcasing an entire room. ( Library Journal 2009-05-15) They say a picture is worth a thousand words -- or in this case, a thousand home ideas -- and this new book...bears out the concept... It covers a variety of home categories: windows and doors, flooring, stairways, kitchens, storage, walls, lighting, colour and texture, outdoor spaces and more. But don't look for straightforward how-to decorating advice in this lavishly printed volume...The intent is purely inspirational, to spur readers to develop ideas for their own interiors based on the set pieces found on its pages. Part of what makes the book fun is the freedom with which the authors have chosen to illustrate each category; most of the interiors and details depicted in the photos are hardly stiff, art-directed showcases, but come from the homes of real, albeit imaginative individuals with highly specific quirks and preferences. And many of the photos and layouts make for sumptuous compositions in themselves, whether you're into redecorating or not. All in all, a great source for both casual dipping or more focused reading on a rainy afternoon. (Martha Usiacke Breen The National Post 2009-05-02) One of my favorite books ... Wonderful rooms with only two pages of text, a real show and tell book. (Rita St. Clair SiLive.com 2009-07-22) 1000 Home Ideas tackles every design decision facing homeowners during a remodeling project, from color and shelving to fireplace and banisters. With more than 750 color photos, this sourcebook beautifully illustrates 1,000 innovative ideas and practical solutions to home renovation and design. ( Home & Design 2009-09-01) The clever premise of this design book is the themes that form the basis for each chapter, including shelves, floors, doors and windows, color and texture, and cooking and eating, among others. For each, interior design specialist Cliff offers a page of thoughts and suggestions on the theme then fills the rest of the chapter with many examples in scintillating photos taken by Sarramon in houses throughout Europe. The photos are presented in full-page plates or, more often, with many photos per page, and all without captions, so that the reader focuses entirely on the visual. ( Book News, Reference and Research Book News ) Finally, there's a picture book for decor divas.... This book has eye candy galore oozing from its pages. (Peggy Mackenzie Toronto Star 2010-10-22) Stafford Cliff is a consultant and art director who has spent a lifetime working on magazines, brochures and catalogs related to interior design. In 1974 he produced the best-selling classic The House Book , one of the first design-led guides to home decorating. He is the author of more than 60 books on interior design. Introduction Everybody thinks about their home. When you're young, if you have your own room, it becomes your world and you soon set about personalizing it, making it your private domain. When you leave home, you start to create another one - and you wonder how you're going to manage with all the decisions you'll need to make. Some folks dread it, and others just can't wait to go shopping. But not everything is available from a store. You'll need ideas, too. What type of floor will you have: carpets, mats, rugs or floorboards? Stone or brick, maybe? You will inherit some of the elements, and certain decisions will be made for you - by the space or the previous owners. No matter; you'll want to tailor it to your needs. Maybe you can't change the floors, the walls, the ceilings or the staircase, but you'll almost certainly need to repaint or replace some things, move them around - doors, perhaps, or even windows; an extension, a home office, a bigger bathroom. Even if the task is too big for you to undertake yourself, don't be put off. If you know the effect yo