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Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Your Home (All About Your House)
Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Your Home - All About Your House Author:Better Homes and Gardens Have you ever agonized over selecting a wall color, drapery fabric, or piece of furniture? If so, you are not alone. To many people decorating a home seems mysterious, even intiminating. The reason may be that with decorating - unlike building, gardening, or even baking a cake - hard-and-fast rules simply do not apply. Instead, a room can look j... more »ust right, not quite right, or all wrong for a wide variety of reasons.
A few people seem to have a natural aptitude - or "eye" - for putting together successful room schemes. Consciously or not, however, they're applying general design principles that any of us can master. "Decorating Your Home" explains these principles and tells how you can put them to work at your house.
Here you will learn about decorating styles and how you can create your own; how to plan and execute decorating changes; the importance of backgrounds; tried-and-true decorating techniques; where to find the furnishings you need; and how to fine-tune your decor with art, accessories, and lighting. The more than 100 color photographs found in this book, were chosen to not only delight the eye, but also to educate it.« less