Weekend Projects

22.96 x 1.52 x 27.48 cm-SIGNED BY AUTHOR-SIGNATURE ONLY-" This book features over 50 projects, and focuses on projects for every room in the home and the garden.- Hand-made crafts have come a long way from the days of knitted tea cozies and trivets fashioned from popsicle sticks. In 50 Fabulous Projects, the editors of Canadian House & Home magazine offer original interpretations of the stylish items they most covet for their own homes. CH&Heditor Cobi Ladner has chosen 50 favorite projects from the magazine into one volume, illustrated with more than 300 color photographs. Step-by-step instructions fall under the headings Craft, Sewing, Paint, Garden, and Workshop. Skills required range from wielding a paintbrush to being fairly handy with a circular saw, and each project is rated for its level of difficulty. Projects range from the prosaic (build a rustic garden shed from recycled cedar decking) to the decadent (line a bedroom with silk-upholstered walls). When that's finished, wire a ginger jar into a lamp or build sophisticated display shelving. The latter, we are told, "spans the width of the wall and are just deep enough to prop a picture or set a small object on. The effect is appealingly modern and art-gallery minimalist,--Carolyn Leitch".