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Set of 4 Natural Sandstone Absorbent Coasters
Cork-backed to protect furniture. Beautiful designs. Practical function!

Great accents for your home! Everything from nostalgic Hoosier-style reproduction
Canisters, Vintage Storage Glassware, Ceramic Crocks, Vintage Schoolhouse Clocks,
Grand Central Station Clock, Olivewood Flatware, authentic Antique Painted Tubs,
Limited Edition 1920 French Lithographs and so much more!

Illuminations - Apple Cider Scented Candle

With the Holidays just around the corner, stop in to see the wonderful gifts at
Illuminations, along with lots of exquisite candles
and home decorating ideas!!

New! Classic Signature Scents
Apple Cider Pillar Candles

Chilly weather melts away with the scent of tart apple cider
simmered to perfection with cinnamon sticks.

Vibrant, colorful, fun ceramics and tile art straight from the Caribbean!
Wall plaques & pockets, trays & trivets. One of a kind decorative plates
and trays! Stunning tiles! Have a custom designed tile table, mural, counter
top, shower, anything! Created just for you! Tile tables are handcrafted all the
way down to their black iron legs! For one of a kind decorating in your home
and a real conversation piece, email or call, to have a commissioned
piece of artwork made for your home!

Beautiful hand-stitched works of art made of canvas and wool; make stunning
wall hangings in your home or business. Unlike a painting or print, Vivi's tapestries
are so unique, they are not only a work of art, but also a conversation piece that
will be noticed! Designs include Vivi's own original creations, several of Pablo
Picasso's works, and recreations of other notable artists. Take a stroll
through her gallery to view these exquisite tapestries!

Visit our online Caribbean art gallery of tropical limited edition prints
and framed original oil paintings. Featuring a West Indies collection of
colorful island pictures depicting beaches, seascapes, and native
culture from the Bahamas, the Virgins, Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua,
and the Granadines. Let artists, Shari Erickson and Douglas Gifford,
bring the spirit and the flavor of the Caribbean to your home!

Our hand-crafted wood products were inspired by pieces from the 1800’s and 1900’s. Our artisans
create an aged look that is designed to blend with and complement your Antiques and collectibles.
We have a large selection of reproduction game boards, vintage signs, various folk art accents,
as well as a whole section of Americana. In addition, we offer a collection of country
home decor pieces for today’s lifestyle. Don’t miss our decorating ensembles:
The Civil War Group, the Old Toys Collection & more!
10% off any complete grouping purchased.

Handcrafted Western, Southwest, and Prairie Style Stained Glass.
An exciting collection of stained glass lamps and windows.

Within our web shop you will find unique Antiques, Collectibles, Americana
and One-of-a-kind, Handpainted Folk Art. We also offer great
Accessories and Gifts that compliment your country home. You can get
our informative newsletter and articles every month FREE ,
and enter our monthly drawing to win great stuff! And don't miss the newest
addition to our site: the American Antique Hooked Rug Collection!

Tiffany-Style Stained Glass Windows and Hanging Art Panels
Beveled Glass / Lamps / Candle Holders
Handmade Originals / Custom Decorative Art / Unique Accessories and Gifts

The Candlelit Home: Decorating With Candles Year-Round

There is no easier, more inexpensive, more stylish, and dramatic way to quickly change the look and mood of one's living space than with candlelight. This practical interior design guide presents dozens of innovative ideas for using candles to spruce up any home. Lush full-color photographs show candles in indoor and outdoor decor--in table settings and floral arrangements, on patios and in backyards. Endless ideas for your home!

Color for Your Home

This book is one of the most beautiful home decorating books there is! Not only are the photos exquisite, but the info is clear-cut and helpful. It really gives the reader a new way to think about color in their environment. It guides you in your undertanding of texture, tone, hue, value, temperature, intensity and complimentary colors. Color for Your Home gives you the freedom and knowledge to experiment with color in a new and fun way!

Mary Emmerling's American Country Cottages

This beautifully illustrated book explores the charm of 24 country and seaside cottages from Key West to California. Mary Emmerling and photographer Joshua Greene ventured across America and found decorating ideas and housekeeping solutions that will prove delightful and useful to anyone who enjoys living informally and intimately in small spaces. Romantic full-color photographs help capture the coziness of modern cottages.

The New Cottage Home

The New Cottage Home taps into today's move toward lifestyle simplicity and the idea that living space should be rich in details, conservative of resources, and no larger than necessary. Jim Tolpin celebrates the diversity and charm of 30 sample cottages, from a Pacific Northwest cottage modeled after a French hunting lodge to a "salvage yard vernacular cottage" built with junkyard materials. Each featured home reflects individual personality, priorities, and lifestyle. Whether by the water, on a mountain, or in a forest, field, or town, these homes emphasize quality of place over quantity of space.

Cabin Fever: Rustic Style Comes Home

A log cabin in the woods is one of America's most cherished icons -- a dream shared around the world. Cabins in the wilderness have never gone out of style, because the rustic life is a simple, rewarding one rooted in the traditions of the great outdoors. Cabin Fever features rustic interiors as well as North Woods architecture. And to fill that cabin in the latest rustic style, the book's catalogue shows where to find home furnishings - everything from twig bedsteads to Hudson Bay blankets to Adirondack chairs.

The Log Home Book: Design, Past and Present

Some 200 photos showcase the possibilities for log homes, showing a wide variety of examples and providing myriad construction and design options for the designer, builder, or owner. Arrangement is in chapters on eastern traditional, the West, contemporary log homes, craftsman design, and post-and-beam constructed buildings.

Muir's Original Log Home Guide for Builders and Buyers

"If you are contemplating building a log home or anything having to do with log homes, this book is the "Bible." I have never been so impressed with a publication! "
"Anyone planning on building a log home that does not invest in this book is making a serious mistake! The Millenium Issue of Muir's Orginal Log Home Guide contains no advertising. I believe this adds to the validity of the views and opinions contained with in the book. "

Build Your Own Low-Cost Log Home

"If it's a log house you're considering; . . . here is one of the best books on this popular subject."
"This update of the classic 1977 book will help you choose a site, plan your cabin, find a kit or build from scratch. "

Log Cabins (Architecture and Design Library)

Filled with riveting photographs, and well-written and informative captions. Creative and beautifully rustic ideas!

Garage Sale Decorator's Bible

Whether you are a crafter, a do-it-yourself decorator, on a budget or a garage sale aficionado--you must have this book. Over 77 projects with complete step by step instructions, hundreds of decorating tips and ideas and a pricing guide with over 1100 items priced out for garage sale bargains. Fabulous color photographs!

Tattered Treasures

This book focuses on how to "revive" items like lamps, metal ware, and wooden chairs. Lots of color photographs to browse through. The creations described are wondrously whimsical and imaginative.

Decorating With Great Finds: 82 Ways to Use Finds from Antique Stores, Garage Sales & Attics (Arts & Crafts for Home Decorating)

Dozens of Creative projects! Learn how to decorate your home in a unique style with the great finds you discover at garage sales, tucked away in attics, and hidden in the back corners of antique shops!

Salvage Style in Your Home

Salvage Style in your Home shows you how to give new life to everyday objects that seem to have reached the end of their usefulness. Over 30 original projects--from beginner to advanced--demonstrate the techniques and methods needed, and inspirational photographs illustrate the hidden potential of salvaged items and materials. Discover the pleasure in finding a cast-off item, bringing out its inherent beauty, and transforming it into an attractive accent in your home.

Casa Adobe

Casa Adobe depicts homes, haciendas and holiday getaways that have blended handcrafted details, natural materials, and cross-cultural furnishings to express the elegant simplicity of adobe homes, from their humble beginnings to their current renaissance.

Southwest Style: A Home-Lover's Guide to Architecture and Design

Southwest Style provides a look at contemporary Southwest style, which includes a mixture of Spanish, Mexican, and cowboy influences, and shows how the look has been incorporated into home decor. An overview is given of the region and the traditional architectural styles and details that comprise the Southwest style. Homes in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah are depicted that exemplify each region's style from mountain to desert.

Inside the Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Interior

Inside the Bungalow will thrill Arts and Crafts aficionados. Chapters devoted to all aspects of bungalow interior design include the front door, with its sense of arrival; the fireplace, a major Arts and Crafts symbol of hearth and home; the living room, hub of bungalow living; the kitchen and dining room; and bedrooms that range from nursery to sleeping porch. Finishing touches of the period abound: textiles, pillows, wall treatments, lighting fixtures, millwork detailing, art glass, and more. A special section shows eager enthusiasts how mundane interiors have been transformed into beautiful, exciting Arts and Crafts environments.

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