books about: fireplaces

books about: fireplaces

books:

Fireplaces

Sunset Publishing Corporation, 2006

Great update
This is an updated version of Sunset's best selling title. This new edition benefits from an array of new projects and many updates that include expanded how-to information for some popular outdoor kitchen projects, including step by step photos for building wood fired ...

Constructing a Fireplace Mantel: Step-by-Step from Plywood And Stock Moldings

Steve Penberthy, Lawrence S. Welsh

Schiffer Publishing, 2006

The Real Last Word in Mantel Construction
This is a real how-to book with great illustrations and pictures which make the construction techniques really come to life. It is a great resource for those who want to create a classic look with readily available and easy to work with materials such as plywood and ...

Your Home A Living Canvas: Create Stunning Faux Finishes & Murals with Paint

Curtis L Heuser

North Light Books, 2007

Perfect Gift
YOUR HOME,A LIVING CANVAS sits on my living room coffee table and everyone who sees it wants one. Curtis Heuser's work is stunning and his directions for achieving beautiful results in your own home are clear and accessible. This book is head and shoulders above any ...

Building Fireplace Mantels: Distinctive Projects for Any Style Home

Mario Rodriguez

Taunton, 2002

Outstanding Book on Focused Topic
This is an outstanding book on a focused topic: "Distinctive [Fireplace] Projects for any Style Home." After discussing some basics of mantel making, he describes in detail from start to finish, step-by-step, including a materials list, suppliers, and tools needed for ...

Fire Outdoors: Fireplaces, Fire Pits, Wood Fired Ovens & Cook Centers

Tina Skinner, Melissa Cardona

Schiffer Publishing, 2006

Great source of inspiration for an outdoor project!
If you are looking for inspiration before you start creating your backyard dream, this book is it! Lots of great photos that will give you ideas of what can work in your outdoor space. Fireplaces, wood-burning ovens,outdoor kitchens and much more.

Backyard Idea Book: Outdoor Kitchens Fireplaces Sheds & Storage Play Spaces Pools & Spa (Idea Books)

Lee Anne White

Taunton, 2004

Very helpful book with great ideas
I haven't finished reading it yet but so far love it. It has many photos along with a paragraph about why/how this works - the type of landscape and things to make sure you do/don't do. I am buying a copy for my sister for xmas.

Fireplace Design & Decorating Ideas

Better Homes and Gardens

Better Homes and Gardens, 2005

Great Idea Book for Fireplace Projects
I do custom carpentry in the Metro Detroit area, and updating fireplace surrounds and mantles seems to be the new hot trend here, so I wanted to get a new book for ideas. I thumbed through this book at lowes before buying it for less on amazon. I have been very ...

Fire Places: A Practical Design Guide to Fireplaces and Stoves Indoors and Out

Jane Gitlin

Taunton, 2006

A Design Guide and a Picture Book
Fire places seem evoke some kind of hidden memories out of our distant path when the fire at the mouth of the cave kept the tigers away. This has become so important that even apartments now seem to come with fire places. This book, as is usual with this publisher ...

Rustic Fireplaces

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2007

Dream on...
You can get sooo lost in these beautiful photographs. After purchasing two, I'm sure to continue collecting Ralph Kylloe's books - what a pro!

The Magic of Fire: Hearth Cooking: One Hundred Recipes for the Fireplace or Campfire

William Rubel

Ten Speed Press, 2002

A Beautiful and Fundamental Book
Cooking in fire and coals wasn't important to me until I ate in a humble farmhouse kitchen in the mountains of the Veneto a few years ago. The flavors of woodsmoke in the roast squab and the wild-mushroom risotto were magical. They transformed simple, lean ...

The Forgotten Art of Building a Good Fireplace

Vrest Orton

"Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc.", 1969

The Forgotten Art of Building a Good Fireplace.
Thank you Mr. Orton for this much needed book. It has what we need to know about building a good fireplace and how the other designs fall short. This book has helped drive a movement toward the construction of this type of fireplace. There are 2 houses owned by my ...

Hearthside Cooking: Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove
Nancy Carter Crump

The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

Foreword by Sandra Oliver; with more than 250 recipes. For cooks who want to experience a link to culinary history, Hearthside Cooking is a treasure trove of early American delights. First published in 1986, it has become a standard guide for museum interpreters and guides, culinary historians, historical re-enactors, campers, scouts, and home ...

Outdoor Kitchens: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Design and Construction (Better Homes & Gardens)

Better Homes and Gardens

Better Homes and Gardens, 2004

An excellent starter/idea book
Okay, this is not a book of plans and layouts--there are several--but, that's not the primary purpose of a book like this. IDEAS that's what you got here. Transposing one of these designs wholesale into your backyard would be fine IF you have the space, the matching ...

The Open-Hearth Cookbook: Recapturing the Flavor of Early America

Suzanne Goldenson, Doris Simpson

"Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc.", 2006

Passion of Open-hearth Cooking
This book gives very useful tips in cooking itself. There are a variety of recipes. I have made some of them already and the taste is fantastic. Please keep finding those old recipes and converting them to correct measurements. Thank you again for a wonderful ...

Bungalow Basics: Fireplaces

Paul Duchscherer

Pomegranate Communications, 2003

A lovely and practical series that needs expansion!
The "Bungalow Basics" series is economy-sized and economy-priced, and fits well, appropriately enough, on bungalow-sized shelves. With their lavish illustrations and attractive size, these books form a good introduction to the basics, ahem, of classic bungalow ...