Best Lifestyle Books | Schiffer Publishing

What did normal farm, town, and city dwellers really look like between 1880 and 1940? How did they live? During this era of rapid evolution, Western nations switched from horse-drawn vehicles to airplanes, from oil...

A fascinating timeline of hair fashion emerges through a progression of images. This extensively illustrated history of hairstyles is a guide for theatrical hairstylists, costumers, and historical reenactors, and provides invaluable reference for dating vintage...

If you're contemplating a new pool project, and if you want it to outshine all others, this is the book for you. Here is a virtual, vicarious tour of nearly 300 spectacular swim-able waterscapes by...

An unprecedented logging theft of Mother Nature from the 1880s to the 1940s completely changed the wooded landscape in the northern Great Lakes region of America as well as the society and ecology forevermore. In...

When life hands you lemons, make butterflies! This color illustrated guide for the beginning food sculptor explores different carving techniques and offers a broad range of projects simple enough for anyone to accomplish, beautiful enough...

An illustrated look at the planning, design, biology, materials, construction, planting, and maintenance of natural swimming pools.  Natural swimming pools rely on the correct balance of living plants and micro-organisms to clean and purify the...

Two hundred years of garden history are presented in the hundreds tools and accessories that gardeners used to dig the soil, cut scrub, harrow fields, and trim borders. In thousands of years of tilling the...

Art tile is a truly exciting option for both interior and exterior decoration. There is a vast array of tile available on the market today, ranging in design from traditional to modern, and conservative to...

Hundreds of beautiful garden landscapes lavish with ornaments and antiques that will inspire you to the plant the seeds for your future beautiful gardens. This book takes you through hundreds of beautiful garden landscapes lavish...

Explore fifty-six innovative adaptations of old, abandoned structures into modern family homes, apartments, and condominiums. Includes more than 290 images and plans. The accompanying text describes how each historical, industrial, or agricultural structure was spared...

Water forms the soul of a garden. A quiet pond, a babbling brook, or a dramatic pool can make a garden unique. To achieve such beauty, however, requires careful planning and design. Using over 150...

A joyful celebration of everyone's favorite tacky lawn ornament—the pink plastic flamingo! "In 1957, Don Featherstone sculptured the first three-dimensional pink plastic flamingo, thereby making affordable bad taste accessible to the American public." —from Pink...