Easy & Elegant Home Decorating: 25 Stylish Projects for Your Home (Easy & Elegant)
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!