Luxury Designs for Apartment Living Author:Barbara Taylor Bradford Apartments and condominiums are a way of life for over 15 million households all over America. Not only in big cities, but also in suburbs, smaller towns, resorts, and even in the country, people are confronting the challenge of creating attractive, efficient, and pleasant living in small and often characterless spaces. Lack of archi... more »tectural focal points, endlessly repeated standard layouts, and tiny, cramped kitchens and baths are only a few of the problems they face.
Luxury Designs for Apartment Living offers advice and imaginative solutions for the apartment dweller who wants to create a unique, personalized environment. Every period and every taste are accounted for, from Early American to the last word in avant-garde. Barbara Bradford explains in detail the sometimes complicated interrelationships of light and color, space and function, showing how to make a room cozy or cool, homey or formally elegant; how to make a large room smaller by furniture placement, or a small room larger by the choice of wall color; how to find storage space, dining space, and counter space in a crowded studio; how to turn a dingy, antiquated kitchen into an effective, well-planned showpiece; and much, much more. With proper forethought, a child's room can be designed to grow with the child, a master bedroom to serve as a sitting room or an office, a corner of the living room to sprout a table and chairs and become a dining alcove.
This profusely illustrated, comprehensive guide answers every question the reader might think to ask, as well as many more that the untrained decorator might overlook. Luxury Designs for Apartment Living is a gold mine of pertinent and practical information, indispensible to anyone who seeks to transform a bare, uninteresting space into a home that reflects the personalities of its occupants.« less