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Blend images, colors, and materials to create lovely, lavish layers! This sophisticated style only seems difficult to duplicate--these home-decor projects reveal how easy it is to master the art.

• Choose from more than 15 projects including a floral lampshade, love-letter pillow, and mosaic luminary
• Master techniques for collage, decoupage, image transferring, painting, and stamping
• Add dimension with charms, eyelets, threads, tags, metal stickers, paper flowers, and ribbons

Customer Review: Very sophisticated Projects

I'm always on the lookout for decoupage books. It seems that this is a craft that has gone asleep once again. I bought this book from an Amazon seller because I could view the pages. I appreciate visuals as well as reviews. I wish all sellers and authors would take advantage of this Amazon feature. This book has some very sophisticated projects which are quite easy and beautiful. You'll be quite happy about a true bargain.

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Here's a guide for everyone wanting to freshen up or completely remodel their home without spending a fortune on an interior decorator.

Written by an up-and-coming new designer, Easy & Elegant Home Decorating is packed full of inventive interior decorating ideas that will suit both feminine and masculine tastes.

Fabrics, walls, furniture, and accessories in the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living room are transformed using six basic techniques: mosaic, gilding, decoupage, fabric painting, printing, and stenciling.

A separate chapter explains exactly how to master each technique and what materials are needed to make sure each project is foolproof. A comprehensive stocklist section details where to find each product. Each project has been carefully designed to be accessible and achievable using clear, step-by-step photographs and hints on how to obtain a perfect finish. Plus, a special eight-page appendix contains templates to use as stencil or decoupage motifs. Stylish color photographs of each finished project complete this book that is a "must-have" for both novice and experienced decorators everywhere!

Customer Review: If you want some verve in home design projects, get this!

Do you want to create elegant accessories for your home? Do you want to have fun adding sophisticated detail to your lovely living space? Do you want to have a fresh look without spending a fortune? if you answered yes to any of these questions, then I urge you to get your hands on Andrea Maflin's exquisite, home decorating book, Easy & Elegant Home Decorating! Ms. Maflin has executed one of the most beautiful yet practical home decorating books that I have seen, and I have seen SO many! This volume is packed with wonderful detail to help the beginner or advanced crafter create gorgeous additions to your home. Using six techniques, she demonstrates how to achieve new decor with mosaic, gilding, decoupage, fabric painting, printing, and stenciling. If you follow her easy lessons, you will create professionally looking fabrics, walls, furniture, and accessories in every room of your home. The design that she offers are pleasing to both the feminine and masculine eye. This "choice" book is not only wonderful to look at, but the author has included a fool proof approach to design, even to the inclusion of templates, hints for perfection, and product accessibility. Don't let this book get by you! You can even give your home an Italian flair with this book!

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Customer Review: Covers the basics...

I really like this book - granted, I wouldn't duplicate the exact styles in the book (it screams 1980s), but I know what styles I like, I just needed some guidance on how to make what I wanted to make. This book covers everything - window coverings, bed linens, etc. My only complaint is that sometimes the directions are SO simplified that it almost makes them confusing. But overall it was a great purchase. Also, I almost bought this book at a craft store close by, but ended up buying it on Amazon...with standard shipping it came two days later and was less expensive than the one at the craft store.

Customer Review: Excellent How-To Book

If you are interested in making your own home fabrics, this is a great resource. This book shows you step-by-step how to make no-sewing and simple sewing projects to personalize your home (and save money to boot!). This is not an interior decorating book; rather, it is a manual for people who want to spruce up their homes but need to know HOW. I didn't see any outdated information here - some of the styles were more "country" than others, but there is plenty here from other design styles to keep you busy. Also, you can tailor the majority of the ideas in this book to your tastes. All in all, a fantastic guide to sewing projects for the home.

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Consider the circumstances that most first-time home buyers find themselves in. For weeks or months, they've been assaulted by choices, ending with the biggest, most nerve-wracking purchasing decision of their lives. They've already spent enough dough to rival a hamburger-bun factory, and now they've got to figure out where, in the vast cavern that is their new home, to put the meager belongings they've accumulated. Suddenly the house that looked so wonderful with those other people's furniture just looks ... empty. Yet most new homeowners also don't want to go further into debt, nor do they want to live with the shoddy results of bargain-basement decorating.

Leslie Linsley comes to the rescue with First Home, written expressly for those furnishing and decorating a house or apartment for the first time. Linsley's room-by-room approach is focused, relaxed, and helpful, and she stresses repeatedly that it doesn't all have to happen at once: "Don't be in a hurry and don't be embarrassed if your house or apartment is filled with empty space for a while. Take your time." Thinking, planning, buying the pieces that are most important first--what Linsley dubs the "I-can't-live-without-a-bed" items--and living in the space for a while before deciding exactly how to fill it help ensure that each room will reflect your personal style and go easy on your overall budget.

Linsley covers all the practical aspects of choosing a room's permanent and semipermanent fixtures--wall and floor coverings, lighting, furniture, window treatments, storage, hardware, and accessories--thoroughly and sensibly, always making a case for both high quality and good value: "Comfort is more important than anything. If it looks good but feels wrong, it won't last."

She gives great rules of thumb for space planning and furniture placement (e.g., allow three feet for opening drawers, and two to three feet for pulling dining chairs away from the table). Small tips in the margins offer everything from where to find online advice for wallpapering to a list of the toll-free phone numbers for major appliance manufacturers. Perhaps the book's only weak point is the sidebar tips from professional designers, which are too brief and oblique to be truly helpful. But Linsley's own advice is so solidly on the mark as to make this a near-perfect choice not only for first-time decorators but also for those considering a new look for their living space. --Barrie Trinkle

Customer Review: Not very meat-y.

This book could easily have been half the number of pages for several reasons. Besides using larger print (which is okay by me) and lots of b&w drawings, she only uses about 2/3 of the page for text, so there's quite a bit of blank space. Mainly though, I got tired of her repeating the same information. For example, when she talks about cabinets, she tells you the same stuff in the chapters on kitchens and home offices. She repeats the information about lighting in the bathroom and living room chapters. Also, she likes to decorate with white and often recommends that color scheme, which doesn't seem very practical to me. Overall, I learned a couple of things about decorating and picked up a few tips, but unless you really don't know anything at all about decorating, I would keep looking for a book with more depth and detail.

Customer Review: This book sucks!

I ended up returning this very disappointing book. It's all black and white, with no color. How can a decorating book be effective in black and white? The advice seemed very outdated and the book was boring. Don't waste your money!

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This lavish book is devoted to exploring the design potential of mosaics.

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