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Nowadays, family homes need to work hard and play hard, meeting the varying needs of style-conscious parents, lively toddlers and everyone else in between.In Creative Family Home, Ashlyn Gibson explores the heart and soul of twelve homes that capture the zeitgeist in family living. Whether your family consists of a single bouncing baby or a tribe of pre-teens, Creative Family Home tackles both the practical and the decorative issues and paves the way for a fun, hard-working and creative home that grows and adapts with your kids. The book starts by focusing on the varying demands of family living, with suggestions for using space creatively, color and pattern, hardworking storage, homework and creative zones, and displaying kids' artworks and other family treasures. Next, Ashlyn visits real-life homes that are notable for their fresh, irreverent take on modern family living and draws inspiration from their varying approaches to the many demands that today's families encounter. Creative Family Home celebrates modern family life, where children are given the freedom to express themselves and to develop their individuality within the context of an imaginative family home.

Auf der letzten Grillparty staunte ich nicht schlecht, als mir der Gastgeber das Wohnzimmer zeigen wollte, wir den Raum betraten und das Licht wie von Geisterhand eingeschaltet wurde, entspannte Musik aus den Lautsprechern dröhnte und eine fremde weibliche Stimme wie aus dem Nichts sagte: ,,Temperatur wird auf 21 Grad angehoben, Ambiente-Modus wurde gestartet.'' ,,Smart-Home''... rief mir mein bekannter Freund zu, während ich wie versteinert beobachtete, wie außerdem noch ein Zimmerbrunnen begann, das Wasser spielen zu lassen, und wie bunte Lampen anfingen, mir Farben zu präsentieren, die ich bislang nur von Farbkarten aus dem Baumarkt kannte. Nachdem die Jalousien dann vollautomatisch ihren Weg nach unten gefunden hatten, um den ,,Ambiente-Modus'' zu komplettieren, konnte man mir sehr gut ansehen, dass diese technischen Finessen absolut mein ,,Ding'' waren. Schnell war klar: ,,Das muss ich auch haben!''

- An ideal choice for those homeowners considering a new deck or for those simply looking for ideas on how to re-design their own backyard into a comfortable and functional outdoor living space. ENJOY LIFE...OUTDOORS!

This book is about our relationship to possessions, the loss of home and the search for one's true home, and how to use the physical chaos of a house move to sort through one's inner chaos. Based on the author's experience of 21 (40?) moves.

A beautiful story like telling of the seasons and changes to nature. The prose rolls and spins a tale of beauty and gives a feel of life to inatimacy as seen in this description.The painter of landscapes seen in dreams must be a memory that knows fantastic woods and faery seas all strange to the waking memory. Or else the artist is only a weariness with the day just past that gives us in sleep sight of the country which, so Mr. Maugham and other story-tellers say, is the real home that men may go their whole lives long without finding, because we are not always born at home, nor even brought up there, and we might for years be homesick for a land unseen. Once beheld, the recognition is instant, and in the foreign place begins a vita nuova-relief and an intensity of living never known before the new and familiar harbor came down to meet us at the shore. So sometimes it is in dreams.