Let's Ask Michael: 100 Practical Solutions for Interior Design Challenges (P/L CUSTOM SCORING SURVEY) - Softcover

Payne, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071416277 ISBN 13: 9780071416276

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2003

Synopsis

Michael Payne - popular host of the HGTV's hit series, "Designing for the Sexes" - brings his unique talents and expertise to this beautiful and practical reference designed to help homeowners find stylish solutions to today's most challenging home design dilemmas. It features real life questions asked by real life people. Utilizing a vibrant full-color format, Michael answers such questions as: I want a classic Victorian theme in my family room, where do I begin? Our new living room has 20-foot ceilings and makes furniture look miniature, what should we do? We want color in our room, but have no idea where to start, what do you suggest? Michael Payne's ingenious - and beautiful - answers will give you ideas you'll want to try in your own home.Whether you're married or single, you'll appreciate the exciting decorating solutions in "Let's Ask Michael". This book: puts 100 complete design answers in front of your eyes in gorgeous 4-color, 2-page spreads; answers questions on all the rooms in your home; follows a logical room-by-room sequence; and, is packed with Michael's unique tips on lighting, upholstery, accessories, storage, and more. Through emails, internet chats, and attendance at his seminars, Michael's fans have directly asked him to solve their most difficult interior design dilemmas. This beautiful reference delivers the answers they seek in a style that captures Michael's trademark wit and charm. Questions range from the common to the outrageous, providing always informative - and often amusing - reading. It provides practical solutions in an innovative format.

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Excerpts from feature article about author Michael Payne by Erica Noonan.
A couples-therapy view of decorating. .

Every Thursday night at 9, Payne strolls up the front walk of a Los Angeles mansion to call decorating timeout for a bickering couple. Usually, he introduces the design dilemma with something provocative like, "She loves French country. He loves Salvadore Dali melting-clock posters. Can these two ever agree? Then in 30 minutes, courtesy of Home And Garden Television, they invariabley do.. .

Payne, 57, is the first of the new wave of telegenic, celebrity interior designers to advocate for the man of the house. For decades men's decorating opinions were ignored -- or worse, mocked by women and the designers they hired.. .

..."It's all about compromise," he said, and most "Designing for the Sexes" couples end up happy. ... Payne's first book, "Let's Ask Michael," a collection of reader e-mails and solutions to common design dilemmas, is due to be published next month by McGraw-Hill... . .

From the Back Cover:

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HOME SWEET STYLISH HOME

Michael Payne -popular host of the HGTV's hit series, Designing for the Sexes - brings his unique talents and expertise to this beautiful and practical reference designed to help homeowners find stylish solutions to today's most challenging home design dilemmas.

REAL LIFE QUESTIONS ASKED BY REAL LIFE PEOPLE:
Utilizing a vibrant full-color format, Michael answers such questions as:
* I want a classic Victorian theme in my family room, where do I begin?
* Our new living room has 20-foot ceilings and makes furniture look miniature, what should we do?
* We want color in our room, but have no idea where to start, what do you suggest?

Michael Payne's ingenious--and beautiful--answers will give you ideas you'll want to try in your own home. Whether you're married or single, you'll appreciate the exciting decorating solutions in Let's Ask Michael. This book --
* Puts 100 complete design answers in front of your eyes in gorgeous 4-color, 2-page spreads
* Answers questions on all the rooms in your home
* Follows a logical room-by-room sequence
* Is packed with Michael's unique tips on lighting, upholstery, accessories, storage, and more

YOU ASKED HIM, NOW HE'S ANSWERING
Through emails, internet chats, and attendance at his seminars, Michael's fans have directly asked him to solve their most difficult interior design dilemmas. This beautiful reference delivers the answers they seek in a style that captures Michael's trademark wit and charm. Questions range from the common to the outrageous, providing always informative -- and often amusing -- reading.

PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS IN AN INNOVATIVE FORMAT

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0071416277
• ISBN 13: 9780071416276
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208