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Private Tuscany
The homes featured in this gorgeous volume are as enchanting as the Tuscan towns and hillsides they're built on. Many embody a style we've come to associate with Tuscany: dark-timbered kitchens with dried herbs and garlic ropes hung from the rafters, original terra-cotta tile floors, large-windowed living rooms, and artfully frescoed walls. There are centuries-old furnishings crafted by skilled Italian artisans and elegantly manicured gardens containing hidden grottos and classical statuary. But the homes also reflect the special touches of the people who occupy them; the Gothic mood of a winemaker's medieval fortress; the modern chic of a designer's country house; or the earthy character of an architect's villa, drenched with color and light with traditional murals on the walls and mosaic patterns on the floors.

Living in Tuscany
Under the burning Tuscan sun roll marvelous hills, vineyards, olive groves�all postcard-perfect landscapes nestling medieval towns, rural villas, and contadino farmhouses, endless niches of dreamy dwellings exuding all the charm for which the region is revered of the look and feel of Tuscan living - bring the magic of Tuscany to your corner of the world.

Wine Country Architecture and Interiors
The rich and varied architectural history of the northern California wine country and the fertile soils that produce abundant vineyards has attracted those who are conscious of preserving the qualities inherent to the area. Wine Country Style takes an intimate look at the lifestyle of nineteen homeowners of the Napa and Sonoma valleys, an area of the country that shuns fast-food restaurants, billboards, and commercial motels. People in the wine country today are passionate about the excellent wines produced in the agricultural region in which they choose to live. These inhabitants have personalized the architectural forms that express who they are and how they live, while maintaining the heritage of the area through a variety of styles: Tuscan, French Country, Franciscan Mission, Mediterranean, Modern, Rustic, American Colonial, Victorian, Palladian, Italianate, Asian, with farmhouses, barns, and cottages completing the eclectic blend that comprises the architectural styles of the bucolic wine-making Napa and Sonoma valleys.

Napa Valley Style
Tour through luxury homes - Victorian mansions, Italian villas, hillside cottages, converted farmhouses and wineries; contemporary or modernist structures, and the marvelous gardens that make the California Napa Valley so very special.

Faux Fun Painting: Venetian Plaster
You will learn how to apply Venetian plaster and create a classic polished plaster wall finish. Plus, you�ll learn a new way of working with Venetian plaster to create an old world crackled plaster wall finish. Additionally, you will be guided on how to avoid making common mistakes with these products and how to fix problems if they occur. This DVD is simply an excellent tool for everyone to learn how to paint his or her walls with fun and easy decorative painting techniques using both Metallic paint and Venetian plaster!

Faux Fun: Rocks, Blocks & Bricks
Faux painting and faux finish techniques for painting stone-like wall finishes. With this DVD you'll easily learn how to transform ordinary paper and create torn paper rock patterns, then you'll learn how to apply them to your walls for a stone-like decorative wall creation. You'll also learn how to paint a stone block patterned wall finish. From there, you'll learn how to create a textured faux brick wall surface. With both the brick and block wall finishes, you can inter-change their application processes and create a textured block wall or simply a painted faux brick pattern. Also, all of these finishes are created with easy to find tools along with water-base paint products. This DVD video is an excellent tool for everyone to learn how to paint his or her walls with stone-like faux wall finishes and decorative patterns and make them look great!

The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany
With the recent popularity of such notable books as Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun and Elizabeth Romer's The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley, a legion of new Italia fans are finding out what many already know: the charm of Tuscany cannot be denied. In The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany, author James Bentley and photographer Hugh Palmer offer a decidedly unique view of this remarkable region. Focusing on thirty-six villages and towns from all over Tuscany--chosen for "both their intrinsic beauty and for the part they have played in Tuscan history and culture"--the gorgeous full-color photographs, accompanied by superb accounts of each village, truly "bring the region to life, evoking the richness of architecture and landscape, and bringing out the charm of the Tuscan people." The final chapter is devoted to useful travel information, including passages on hotels and restaurants, market days and festivals, as well as a select bibliography and detailed map of the region. As beautiful as it is informative and entertaining

Bringing Tuscany Home: Sensuous Style From the Heart of Italy
Mayes's book "descibes the essence" of Italian lifestyle, while Heuser's actually "captures the rich color and artistic spirit" of the Tuscan home. Both authors suggests unique ways to recreate the warmth and beauty of the Tuscan country home into your personal life. Good book choice if you are seeking interior inspiration for creating the authentic Tuscan look and feel in your home decorating!

Dreaming of Tuscany: Where to Find the Best There Is: Perfect
Hilltowns; Splendid Palazzos; Rustic Farmhouses; Glorious
Gardens; Authentic Cuisine; Great Wines; Intriguing Shops
No country inspires as much fascination as Italy, and no region in Italy inspires as much adoration as Tuscany�for its interior design, art and architecture, fashion, artisans and crafts, food and wine. In Dreaming of Tuscany you'll experience the essence of a place that dreams are made of, ensuring you'll get the most out of your experience. Sharing her recommendations of favorite insider places and word-of-mouth gems, best-selling lifestyle author Barbara Milo Ohrbach acts as a guide to food markets, exquisite shops, overflowing antiques markets, not to mention cooking courses, outdoor painting classes, ancient palazzos and small museums. And you can live like a Tuscan once you return home, with this book providing sources for everything from luscious bed linens to peppery olive oil.