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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.

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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 preferred environment. Order 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:

Urban Loft Design
The Nations leaders in Modern Urban Expressionism. Designers visit us for our exclusive urban art for your loft project.
Atom - Downtown St. Louis
Furniture, home accessories, rugs, lighting, art, handbags, jewelry.
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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Loft Videos
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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Better Living Through Design

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Urban Lifestyle Online Store
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Books

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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.
1564969819.jpg (16270 bytes) 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.
NewLoftLiving.jpg (7876 bytes) 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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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.  
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.
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.
0970995911.jpg (15940 bytes) 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 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
Lara Hedberg Deam 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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