Now that you've found the perfect urban home, you
want to decorate it to the utmost coolest! Most urban and loft dwellers shun the
traditional decor choice of the masses. Too, urban properties can create a need for unique
design solutions and ideas. Check out our resource links for books,
magazines, and furniture/interior
design for hot urban looks.
 Visit
the Get Urban website. |
Get
Urban - The Complete Guide to City Living by Kyle Ezell
The best and most complete book on Urban Living I have ever heard of! This is a new book
designed to teach Americans about the benefits of city living, and an upcoming
revolution...A coast-to-coast interest in choosing to live, love, and...REGROW America's
cities. Inspires young people and old who are tired of the suburbs and ready for the
glittering lights of city living to "Get Urban!" and move back to the city for
community and cultural action. Helps people "Get Urban" by discovering their
urban lifestyle in the kind of neighbor- hood that fits their tastes, attitudes, and
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through Amazon.com!“Funky” is a combination of
design features, people, activities, art, colors, behavior, functions, lifestyles, and
other components that exist in a place that is skewed, often far left of normal. Among
other elements, funky places have diverse populations, highly expressive personalities,
overflowing art, varied architecture, and interesting special events. |
Furniture/Interior
Design:
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Urban Loft Design
The Nations leaders in Modern Urban Expressionism. Designers visit us for our exclusive urban art for your loft project. |
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Atom - Downtown St. Louis
Furniture, home accessories, rugs, lighting, art, handbags, jewelry. |
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Urbanscapes.com - Fun & funky loft style furnishings, lighting, accessories & kitsch for our "urban retreat". |
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ManhattanLoft.com - This is the place to find contemporary furniture. The Manhattan Loft style is modern urban, contemporary, and right on retro. |
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| Six spaces, six clients, six unique design concepts. Sound intriguing?
Watch and listen as editors of several Meredith magazines (including Decorating, Kitchen & Bath Ideas, Traditional Home, Renovation Style, Midwest Living, and Better Homes and Gardens) share their decorating know-how. You'll see a bright red loft with a stunning curved wall, a serene Asian-themed dressing area, a living room done in subtle blues and chocolate brown, a kitchen planned for a gourmet chef, an updated traditional living room with original brick walls, and a space decorated with collections of vintage country pieces. Notice some of the newest products and furnishings available today and observe new ways to arrange furniture, organize storage, and colorize your living areas.
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Books
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Intown
Living : A Different American Dream
After decades of abandonment, cities across North America are experiencing a
renaissance. A new generation is seeking greater excitement and diversity than the typical
suburban subdivision offers and many people are instead looking to make their homes in
lively urban environments. In Intown Living, authors Ann Breen and Dick Rigby document
this movement, arguing that if properly nurtured, it could help slow current patterns of
sprawling development and help revitalize America's cities. They illustrate the many
benefits of city living and offer strategies and encouragement for public officials and
private developers to team up and expand central city housing opportunities. |
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Loft
Design: Solutions for Creating a Livable Space
If you think of lofts as urban oddities inhabited only by Soho artists, think again.
Celebrity television host and loft expert Katherine Stone has been chronicling the rising
popularity of lofts for years. In this hands-on book, she shares her wisdom and trade
secrets with home and business owners everywhere. Katherine Stone reveals how to transform
spaces large and small into open, inviting, and practical areas for living comfortably and
working well. |
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New
Loft Living: Arranging Your Space
Lofts today can be furnished in a host of interior styles, from raw and salvaged to sleek
and sophisticated. What makes a loft is no longer quantifiable in floor area alone but has
to do with more fundamental qualities of open space planning and design, qualities equally
applicable in more conventional surroundings. This book includes an extensive number of
examples and details including floorplans and comprehensive information on suitable
finishes, materials, and furnishings. A special section looks at patterns of use and
explains how fully to exploit the loft space whatever your circumstances. |
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Lofts:
Good Ideas
Although loft living once meant
converting old industrial warehouses, today it has evolved into a style and approach for
modern living spaces. This new volume in the Good Ideas series provides more than 50
recent examples of contemporary lofts from around the world, ranging from remodeled
industrial buildings to old farmhouses and garages transformed for today's lifestyle. With
800 photographs, Good Ideas: Lofts is an incredible value for anyone who dreams of
owning or living in a loft. |
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One
Space Living
Celebrating the appeal of open-plan living--from tiny studio apartments to huge loft
conversions--this book offers practical, professional suggestions for creating smartly
integrated, gracious home environments. The book deals creatively with matters such as
streamlining possessions, setting up well-ordered storage, and adapting personal habits to
meet the demands of privacy while still maximizing comfort, space, and light. Also
emphasized is how to preserve the architectural integrity of a building in a way that
conventional room planning cannot. 250 color illustrations. |
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Lofts
: Living in Space
This book provides the history of loft inhabitation, as it went from bohemian refuge to a
symbol of millennial cool during the past fifty years. Plenty of gorgeous color
photographs illustrate this volume, providing inspiration from a variety of styles. |
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Loft
Short on words, but long on inspiration, this book is fabulous. If you want a book on
lofts, this is it. From stark minimalism to chic downtown habitats, this book is for those
that love lofts. |
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The
Art Studio/Loft Manual: For Ambitious Artists and Creators
Three million creative people in this country need adequate studio space. Almost all
of them have limited funds. Eric Rudd has written the first practical book to help
creative people find, secure, fix up and finance great studio space. No one graduating
from art, design, music or theater school should go out into the real world without
absorbing the information in The Art Studio/Loft Manual. Seasoned artists and creators
will welcome the ideas revealed in this manual. |
Magazines
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Metropolis
Magazine
Metropolis examines contemporary life through
design--architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning,
and preservation. Subjects range from the sprawling urban environment to intimate living
spaces to small objects of everyday use. In looking for why design happens in a certain
way, Metropolis explores the economic, environmental, social, cultural, political, and
technological context. With its innovative graphic presentation and its provocative voice,
Metropolis shows how richly designed our world can be. Great resources including an
Urban Journal section and free bi-weekly email subscription. |
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New Urban
Living Magazine
Monthly topics include living, homes, communities and New Urbanism. Can read articles and
past issues online. New Urban Living Magazine carries profiles of communities, features,
award-winning homes, quality of life articles, home and outdoor tips, resort features,
community tips, event coverage, book reviews, plus much more. |
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Dwell Magazine
is the Founder of Dwell. Deam
founded the magazine in a response to the experience she had while building her own home.
After working with her architect she went back to school to learn more about design. Her
studies helped her communicate with her architect and she developed an avid interest in
promoting innovative design and architecture in the US. The magazine has a community and a
shopping section online, which are very helpful. |
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City Journal Magazine
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan
Institute. City Journal is the nation’s premier urban-policy magazine,
“the Bible of the new urbanism,” as London’s Daily Telegraph puts
it. During the Giuliani Administration, the magazine served as an idea factory as the
then-mayor revivified New York City, quickly becoming, in the words of the New York
Post, “the place where Rudy gets his ideas.” The Public Interest goes
further, calling City Journal “the magazine that saved the city.” But City
Journal is a national, not just a local, force, with a readership that spans the
U.S.—and an especially enthusiastic audience in the nation’s capital. |
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GUS Magazine - Urban Lifestyle magazine for the
gay-minded.
Although it is a European magazine, Gus is an upscale magazine that is applicable to the
U.S. urban lifestyle. Bills itself for urban sophisticates with a taste for the
up-to-the-minute. |
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