Timeless, graceful, livable: that’s how you want your home to look and feel. This elegant and practical style is now within your grasp. Interviews with architects and interior designers across the country are the basis of this compilation of glorious but achievable decorating ideas. Discover new ways to bring harmony to a room, enlarge rooms with color or make bigger ones more intimate, and impart tranquility to busy areas. You will also find strategies for maximizing space and updating rooms to meet changing needs. Just imagine a cozy window seat enfolded with theater-style curtains, decorative prints that impart old world flavor to a kitchen, and a sitting room featuring an antique day bed that’s perfectly set up to welcome overnight guests. From walls and windows to floors and details, every choice is both beautiful and practical.
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From Library Journal:
The editors of House Beautiful magazine here present hundreds of ideas for bringing style to your home. This volume begins with the essentials of decorating, such as the use of color, scale, and light, and goes on to discuss wall and window treatments, ceilings, floors, and furniture arrangement. Complete with numerous appealing color photographs, it offers its own unique style for adding the final decorative touches that personalize a home. Its more unusual aspects include units on side tables, decorative screens, and dressing tables. The transformation of a schoolhouse, grist mill, and older historic homes are also showcased. Good practical advice is offered that is not "too country" or "too formal." Definitely recommended for any size library.
- Barbara Bartos, St. Croix Cty. Lib., Hammond, Wis.
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- PublisherHearst
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1588163806
- ISBN 13 9781588163806
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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