What's your favorite Interior Design Book?
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Comments (4)"Root Cellaring" by Mike & Nancy Bubel. This book teaches one how to incorporate a root cellar into a year-round feast from the garden. They individually discuss many vegetables, pointing out the ones both above and below ground, that could stay right in the garden throughout the winter. The book also covers many fruits, nuts, and other food items. One section of the book details storage conditions necessary for the different foods: cool & dry, moist and cold, not quite so moist and cool, etc... They teach you how to design everything from a full-size walk-in cellar to how to use hay bales or old barrels & other items to construct places to store vegetables. Also included is a menu/calendar of what a typical family might eat through the year, broken down into categories of: fresh from the garden, from the root cellar, canned, and frozen. I presume the book is written from the point of view of a USDA Z6 gardener since they are from southern PA. After reading the book, I've decided that I can probably get away with storing most of my root vegetables right in the garden since our soil rarely freezes for long here on the border with zone 7. What I DO need to come up with is a coolish dry place to store: garlic, onion, sunflower seeds, grains, nuts, winter squash, etc... The book has also encouraged me to try growing some greens right through the winter. Overall, the book was very enlightening. I would recommend it to anyone wishing to extend the time in which they feast from their own garden....See MoreWhat's your favorite garden/plant book??
Comments (5)Graham Stuart Thomas is a well-known English author who wrote an excellent two volume reference, buttressed by additional books on roses, groundcovers, etc. Not a first pick, because of the English author and the lack of illustrations, but the two-volume set is fairly all-inclusive, so that when you finally have something you can look it up and know what you have. If you see them on sale anywhere they are worth picking up. For shrubs, I agree that Dirr is the man. Ignore him at your peril, but if you have his book, at least you will have been warned. I took him with a grain of salt regarding the eventual height of Allegheny viburnums, but he was absolutely right. He was right about pruning, too. I have an older set of two reference books on flowers that I especially love because it gives an excellent hand-drawn illustration of each, a good description of habitat, and a history of where each plant was first discovered, but it is temporarily packed away and I can't remember the name...maybe someone else will know. It may be out of print, but it should not be if it is....See MoreYour favorite decorating book(s)?
Comments (1)Nice topic! My favorites are No Compromise Decorating- Lynette Jennings American Country Cottages- Mary Emmerling Nell Hill's Decorating Secrets- Mary Carol Garrity...See MoreWhat's your favorite basic quilting book?
Comments (15)"Ultimate Quilters Visual Guide" That's the one I have that was most helpful to me when I was new. Of course I got that AFTER I made a couple quilts and realized how much the authors of the more "general" books ASSUMED you already knew! On of my (many) favorite rants along this topic is how when you are sewing triangular pieces together or to square pieces you need to know how to line them up properly. WHO KNEW? Certainly not me when I made my first Mexican Star quilt and the book just said "Sew these two pieces together." It's not necessarily a beginner's book, but in Alex Anderson's book "Simply Stars" she does a great job of showing all different kinds of triangles and how you line them up when attaching them to other triangles and/or squares. I think the aforementioned visual guide covers this too....See MoreUser
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