- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books (Jun 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0811826538
- ISBN-13: 978-0811826532
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 21.7 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,092,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
You have a futon left over from college, some dingy end tables that Aunt Miller left you, and an apartment whose carpeting dates back to the Me Decade. The decorating magazines and TV shows never seem to talk to you. So what? With some attitude, know-how, and a lot of your own style, your place can be transformed into a fabulous Shangri-La, a swanky venue fit for living and entertaining well. Pad: The Guide to Ultra-Living is filled to bursting with hip, affordable projects for every room in the house and shows how to use basics like lighting, plants, mirrors, and paint to enhance even problem areas. Numerous testimonials from real people with real living spaces demonstrate how a little spunk and individuality can overcome the limitations of the average urban dwelling. Offering a complete lifestyle package, Pad has instructions for building your own home bar, ideas for party themes and recipes--and even collateral hangover cures! This total living guide will have your place all spruced up--and the envy of guests--in no time.
About the Author
Matt Maranian is a freelance writer and former actor now living in Vermont, where he and his wife operate perhaps the hippest vintage clothing store in Brattleboro. He is the coauthor of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, L.A. Bizzaro.
Jack Gould is a Los Angeles--based photographer whose work appears regularly in the New Times Los Angeles.
Susan Tudor has worked as a photo director, fashion designer, textile artist, and graphic designer. She lives in Los Angeles.
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NOTHING creates the illusion of spaciousness more effectively than a big mirror. Read the first page
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This review is from: Pad: The Guide to Ultra-Living (Hardcover)
Ya just don't get it so don't get it...this is for those of us who have a very different vision compared to those of you who pay someone to "design" your house. We know who we are and you ain't one of us so stop ragging on a book for us...go pick up Town & Country or something.A great hands-on book for us crafty and creative types who don't wanna live in Martha's house.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not fun, not helpful. Just awful.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Pad: The Guide to Ultra-Living (Hardcover)
I don't want a kitschy coffee table book full of pix of a lot of godawful rooms. But that is what I inadvertently bought when I picked this up. Fine, so this guy has an attitude and wants to thumb his nose at the world. Good for him. But I'm just out of college and looking for cool ideas and help so I can start living the way I want to live. This book was a costly mistake. Cool isn't cool if it's bad taste, ya know.
3.0 out of 5 stars
A guide to ultra-living? That's a little misleading.,
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This review is from: Pad: The Guide to Ultra-Living (Hardcover)
"Pad" is disguised as a DIY how-to guide for making your living space swanky as all heck, and for that tiny mislead, it loses a star. "Pad," while certainly concerned with interior design for the young adult, makes, if nothing else, a brilliant coffee table book.Instructions for crafty-projects are included, but that doesn't make the book particularly "instructive." More often than undertaking any of the tasks included in the book, I found myself instead looking from section to section at all these crazies' interior design sense, and saying, "Oh! Cute idea!" a little less often than I said, "Ugh! I can't believe they did that!" and "Oh my gosh, she ruined her wall!" Thusly, this nutty book is actually rather traditional, in that it's just like watching any interior design show on cable--picking out which design(er)s we like, which we don't, considering ideas we might want to steal, then never putting the ideas to action. Eh. But a nice coffee table book, to be sure.
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