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Author: Anthony Garay
Publisher: How
Release Date: October 2005
ISBN-10: 1558707611
ISBN-13: 9781558707610
List Price: $19.99
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Today's kids want furniture that is funky and unique - not their parents' worn out antiques. And while they don't have the budget to buy trendy pieces, they do have something else; a creative, do-it-yourself attitude.; Turf will inspire 20- and 30-somethings to create one-of-a-kind works of art - that are functional as well. Featuring 25 projects, this book shows how to: Build contemporary chairs, tables and accessories, along with a nightstand, an armoire and a bed frame, using only a limited number of tools; Use wood with unconventional materials, including pipe, dustbins, crates, acrylics and recycled items; Transform ready-made items into something new with easy-to-grasp skills Illustrated with a mixture of unique hand-drawn illustrations and photos, Turf makes a hip coffee table book as well as practical furniture manual.
great ideas, inexpensive and very easy to understand!
| Customer Rating: | | being a poor college student, i wanted to create something inexpensive and unique. there are many ideas in this book to branch off from and assemble with a touch of your own style. aside from chairs, stools, armoire, shoji screens,coffee tables and t.v. stands (which are all really neat + easy to build), you can also create appliances! i love the way he is detailed in the tools you need and 3d illustrations to assemble the pieces.check out this book and start tinkering! |
Great Find and Helpful!
| Customer Rating: | First I'd like to say this is a very informational book for those on a low budget but like art deco style furniture. As a former college student, I know how hard it is to manage day to day life on a budget, and still have nice things in your home. Well if you follow this book, you will get some nice things (especially like the wine rack)!
As for those who wrote a bad review because the author had an "attitude," I don't think there is any pettiness involved in reviewing your own book. It's a great accomplishment! Before you go about giving someone's book that you haven't even read bad reviews(which isn't even fair!), write your own, come back and let us tear apart all your [years] of hard work.
Good job author! 5 stars! |
Very Masculine
| Customer Rating: | | This book has a lot of ideas. Being a designer, artist, and a person who generally likes to build things I bought this book as well as the Readymade, DIY, and Todd Oldham books. I also own many other more technical books. This book, as well as the others is good for people who like to make things but arent comfortable deisgning. It is also good for people with very little money and a lot of time. However, I did not like this book personally for a few reasons. This is not to say this is a bad book, because it isnt. I am female and as much as I value my already pretty masculine minimalist asthetic, the designs in this book are extremely male. Very "Home Depot" and not for me. There were some cool ideas that I would embellish on though and that is great. The problem I have with all of this generation of D.I.Y. books is the look is very slipshod, and sometimes very junky. I think this book does a good job over some of the others of making pieces that are actually structural and can be used, but a few are hardly practical. The designs for seating seem horribly rigid even the models in the photos look uncomfortable. So in summation, this book is not a bad, or poorly written book, but a book really intented for a college aged group of dudes that want some cheap furniture they can have fun and throw together that will give them a "Steal this room" look to their pad. |
Cool Stuff
| Customer Rating: | This book is aimed at a super specific target market, so it won't be everything to everyone. I'm a little out of the $50 or less dormroom furniture stage of my life, but I still found some things in here that are useful. I realled liked the wine rack and the palette coffee table is probably the coolest coffee table I've ever seen.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes DIY projects. |
I thought is was great
| Customer Rating: | Well, maybe this is just my glass-half-full attitude shining through, but I thought that this book was very successful at doing what it set out to do. I'm not sure how someone could be disappointed in it-- no book can be all things to all people, and I thought that this one did a nice job showing how to use common, hardware store materials to put together some funky furnishings. There was nothing I really would've changed, and I'll admit to being a design junkie who gets a little cynical from time to time. Will I run out and build every project exactly as it is shown? No, but I read a lot of design books and there isn't enough time in the day to actually build everything that's out there. What I really got out of the book was some specific advice for building stuff with this kind of urban, artsy, creative edginess and I will definitely refer back to it in the future.
I think it helps to keep an open mind and view this book as general inspiration, in addition to containing instructions for specific pieces. I'm sure that a lot of people will find this to be a useful guidebook, whether they want to follow the directions step to step or just get ideas in general. |
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