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 Starting Points: Interior Decorating Resources

 
            
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643.58 Zim At Work At Home: Design Ideas for Your Home Workplace
747 Bet Cottage Style: Furniture, Fabrics, Color
747 Bet  Better Homes and Gardens Flea Market Decorating
747 Gre  Kitchen
747 Lew  Less is More: A Practical Guide to Minimizing the Space in Your Home
747 Pil Interior Design
747 Rea Reader’s Digest Complete Book of Home Decorating
747 Rea Real Life Decorating: Your Life, Your Style, Your Home
747 Van 1001 Ways to Decorate What You Love
747 War Use What You Have Decorating
747 Wol Learning to See – Bringing the World Around You Into Your Home
747.77 Eva Bedrooms
747.78 Ard The Bathroom Planner: Hundreds of Great Ideas for Your New Bathroom
747.78 Lee Bathrooms
747.79 Mac Calm Working Spaces
The Library also subscribes to the following magazines, to be found in Periodicals: Architectural Digest, Better Homes and Gardens, and House Beautiful.
 
 
 
  F I N D I N G   B O O K S   &   O T H E R   L I B R A R Y   M A T E R I A L S/ Dewey Decimal browsing numbers: 747
In addition to reference books, you may want to search for other books and materials (videos, audiobooks, etc.) on your topic. The best way to find good sources of information is to do a subject search in our Library catalog. You can access the Library’s online catalog from the Library or home by going to our Web page (www.wppl.org), then - Search Our Catalog - in the upper right hand.  Good subject headings for this topic are interior decoration and house furnishings.
 
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You may also want to check out the collection of thousands of online books (eBooks) the Library has to offer located on the Web site www.netlibrary.com.  Initially, you must open an account from  Library computer terminals, but you will then be able to use the account from home as well. Search for employment and career books by the following categories: subject, title, author.  See a reference librarian for more detail.
 
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  The following sources can be used to find magazine articles dealing with your topic:

  ·        The Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature - Adult Reference R 050 R. Search for articles on a subject within any given year.  
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EBSCOhost and InfoTrac OneFile - Access from the Library or at home using your  library  card number at www.wppl.org.
           
  Search for full text articles in these databases using your choice of keywords. You can limit your search to a certain year or even a certain magazine.
 
 
 W E B  S I T E S
 About.com’s Interior Decorating  Practical advice, dos and don’ts, and links for every room of the house.
 Better Homes and Gardens  Hundreds of links to BHG’s decorating guides, tips and articles.
 Carpet Guru’s Carpet College  Everything you wanted to know about choosing and buying a carpet.
 Decorator Secrets  Decorating ideas and tips for the decorator on a budget.
 Do-It-Yourself's Interior Decorating    Decorating rooms for under $1,0000.00, dozens of how-tos, and many Q & As. 
 The Arts & Crafts Movement, 1870-1900  Writings on interior design by William Morris & contemporaries, with information about the early years of the 
 Arts and Crafts movement in England and America.
 Home & Garden Television  Hundreds of decorating, gardening, craft ideas and how-to articles and photos.
 Home Decorating  Decorating tips and news in convenient categories.
 Rental Decorating Digest  Practical decorating advice and articles for the renter.
 
See also, the Library's Home and Garden links.    
For additional information, please see a reference librarian.  sk 4/03/06
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