Easy Style: 300 Decorating shortcuts ("Better Homes & Gardens")
The busy person's handbook to stylish, current decorating.
Includes whole house schemes and room settings to quickly illustrate and teach design principles.
Translates 300 quick and easy ideas and projects from real homes into design lessons and stylish decorating solutions.
Organized by time requirements so the reader will immediately know the time and materials needed.
Shows true-life applications, using existing furnishings and problem-solving approaches.
Chapters range from weekend makeovers of several rooms to quick-fixes and flower arrangements that take only minutes.
Customer Review: Get Quick Results
After watching HGTV perform miracles of decorating, now the average person wants the same quick fix. This book, by reliable Better Homes and Gardens, delivers ideas and techniques for a quick transformation.
Of course it helps if you're starting out with some nice pieces of furniture and accessories. The rooms are eclectic, shabby chic and the suggestions are easy-to-read bullets beside the photos.
Samples: fill a blank corner with wildflowers or even bare branches in a pitcher or frame several vintage record albums. Nineteen of the ideas have more detailed instructions at the back of the book. These include making a padded bulletin board, upholstering a headboard, and stamping designs on walls and fabrics.
The photos are large enough and the ideas easy to absorb. Even experienced decorators will pick up a few ideas.
Customer Review: Lots of great ideas for such a little book ! 
This is a useful guide for decorating in that "New Traditional" style. It's full of great ideas that can be completed quickly and easily using the art of furniture placement, and ideas for combining flea market finds with what you already own. Chock full of full color photographs and ideas, plus the directions for implementing many of the featured projects. A great addition to the book collection of the ameture decorator.