The Essential Guide to Decorating - Softcover

Lee, Vinny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 174196265X ISBN 13: 9781741962659

Publisher: Murdoch Books, 2008

Synopsis

This is the definitive book for all home decorating enthusiasts. Fully illustrated throughout, this book will enable you to transform every room of your house. It contains a thorough introduction to all basic decorative techniques, including painting, tiling, wallpapering and flooring, tips on choosing the right style for your home and a guide to the range of tools and materials available. Whether you are choosing a type of paint or tiling a kitchen worktop, wallpapering around a corner or fixing a dado rail to the wall, you will be able to master and develop your home decorating skills. Each chapter focuses on planning your space, choosing furnishings and textiles, selecting the right storage and using effective lighting. With a unique blend of accessible practical advice, "The Essential Guide to Decorating" is a book that you will want to return to time and time again.

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Review

From the Interiors Editor of "The Times Magazine" comes an informative, innovative and illustrated guide to home decorating. Vinny Lee gives both the beginner and more adept decorator advice and tips on all aspects of home enhancement. Beginning with a section on the vast variety of techniques used today, it is followed by room-by-room chapters to enable fast access to what you need to know. From choosing a style to implementing it, from lighting to soft furnishings, flooring and wall-coverings, the design ideas are complemented by easy-to-carry-out projects such as beaded curtains, mosaic tables and glass splash-backs to give a room that personal touch. For anyone at a loss as to where to begin decorating and designing a room, this comprehensive, attractively illustrated book will go a long way to assist. From traditional to contemporary, soft hues or vibrant shades, feminine frills or masculine minimalism, all tastes are catered for ensuring the books appeal to all age spectrums and design proclivities. - Lucy Watson

Edition details

• Publisher: Murdoch Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 174196265X
• ISBN 13: 9781741962659
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320