Terence Conran's DIY By Design: Over 30 Projects To Make and More Than 100 Design Ideas For Every Room In Your Home

by Terence Conran, Roger Dubern (Editor), John McGowan (Editor)

Restore, revamp, repair, and revitalize your home! Whether it's tiling a kitchen work surface or building a bedroom wardrobe, these projects will make a room more attractive and functional. Enhance comfort, increase storage space, introduce character into a setting--when you "do-it-yourself," almost anything is possible. Construct a folding screen to divide a space into two areas or a bed with a storage drawer underneath. Replace cupboard doors, panel a bathroom with pine boarding, or install a wall of display shelving. Plus, 250 color photographs and ingenious ideas, including bathroom lighting and heating options, will open your eyes to potential improvements for your home. 256 pages (all in color), 9 1/2 x 11.

Genres: Nonfiction, Design

253 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Sir Terence Conran was educated at Bryanston School, Dorset, and trained as a textile designer at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Hand in hand with his much-publicized career as an arbiter of good taste for a whole generation goes a career in cookery and restaurant management. Having learned the basic skills in the kitchens of a two-star Parisian establishment, he opened several small restaurants in London.These were later sold to finance his fast-expanding furniture business, from which grew the hugely successful Habitat stores. No-one has had a greater influence on contemporary living style than Conran. From the outset of his career, in the brilliant era of the '60s, he devoted his talents to interpreting the home-making aspirations of the bright, busy people of his generation - and to providing them with an excellence of craftsmanship and design at a price they could afford.

Reviews

[Apryl Anderson]

the Book of Shelves. London flat 1990. This doesn't apply in the dust of Provence.

[Bookish Enchantment (Katherine Quirke)]

We have had this book for many years. Some lovely ideas - most we are yet to try. Always read when a new project is on the go.

[Caitlin]

We built our kitchen using the plans from this book and very happy we are with it too! I think that's a pretty strong recommendation in itself :-)

[Michael Heath-Caldwell]

Interesting book on interior design.