Antique Decorating

Decorating from Nature (Handicraft Manuals)

Book Description
This comprehensive guide combines the simplicity and elegance of natural materials to create a variety of home decorations and gifts to share. Filled with ideas and projects using berries, spices, shells, seeds, flowers and fruit, crafters will learn how to bring the world of nature inside for everyone to enjoy.

About The Author
Anna Benvenuti is a native of Sardinia and has been creating natural home decor for many years. She lives in Trento, Italy.

Decorating Furniture: Antique and Country Pain Projects

Decorating Idea Book (Idea Books)

Product Description
Decorating is about being creative-being bold, taking a risk, trying something new. There's no right or wrong, only what works for you and your home.
Decorating Idea Book is filled with over 500 approachable ideas for every room in the house. To spark your own creativity and to help you create a home that reflects your personality, you'll find information on everything from room arrangements and furniture placement to choosing the right window treatments and showcasing treasured collectibles. From the floor to the ceiling and every space in between, Decorating Idea Book is your guide to creating a home that you love more and more every time you walk through the front door. "Fabulous. It works like a reference manual for homeowners and professionals alike."
--Lynette Jennings, creator and host of Lynnette Jennings Design

About The Author
Heather Paper has over 25 years' experience in interior design and shelter categories as a magazine writer, editor and consultant to Kohler, Home Depot, Lowe's, Sherwin-Williams, and DuPont Corian. She conducts in-store design seminars and lives in Roswell Georgia.

Decorating Ideas that Work

Product Description
Many homeowners look at decorating as do-it-yourself proposition. Others seek out the advice of an expert. Decorating Ideas that Work covers both bases completely. Bursting with over 500 photographs and drawings, Heather Paper's hard-working sourcebook is all a potential decorator needs to transform their house into a showcase. Chock full of information on both contemporary and traditional furniture and accessories -- and how to thoughtfully combine them

About The Author
Heather Paper is a freelance writer for many home and lifestyle magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens, Traditional Home, Country Home, Seattle Homes & Lifestyles, and Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles. She has also written for Joy Philbin’s Haven publications and television show and penned articles, books, and brochures for corporate clients such as Kohler, Home Depot, Sherwin-Williams, DuPont Corian, Decorating Den, Lowe’s, and HGTV. Heather lives in the suburbs of Atlanta.

Decorating on a Dime: Trade Secrets from a Style Maker

Product Review
Christy Ferer has written a truly eye-opening guide to achieving major-league style on a tight budget. Her burlap-and-silk curtains, glass-topped tables made from copper plumbing pipe, and feather-trimmed wastebaskets are the kind of accessories that rich people shell out big bucks for (but smart ones can make for next to nothing), and her solutions to the problems of imperfect floors, wall spots, plumbing that needs disguising, and too-small spaces are wildly creative.

Decorating Tricks Antique Style (Decorating Tricks)

Decorating Walls and Floors

Decorating Walls and Floors (Style Sourcebooks)

Book Description
A fashionable floor is as essential to a well-designed room as the right pair of shoes is to an outfit. Properly chosen, installed, and maintained floors can make a home come alive. Still, many don't regard the floor as an important element, resulting in a finished room that just doesn't come together. Decorating Walls and Floors features over 250 photographs and illustrations, and helps decorators assess their floors and decide whether to replace, repair, or redesign.

Decorating With Antiques and Collectibles

Decorating with Antiques: Confidently Combining Old and New

Product Description
Decorating with Antiques explains how some of the most talented interior designers approach a room and its contents.The first section of the book, shows how furniture, fabrics, and fittings from very different periods can be mixed successfully. The Rooms chapter illustrates how antiques can be used throughout your home.

Decorating with Architectural Details

ForeWord Magazine 2004 Book of the Year Award
Winner of the Bronze award in ForeWord magazine's 2004 Book of the Year Award: Decorating with Architectural Details

Product Review
".provides inspiration as well as ways to find authentic accents."

Times-Picayune


Winner of ForeWord Magazine's Bronze Book of the Year Award.

Decorating with Architectural Trimwork: Planning, Designing, Installing

Product Review
"From how to install trimwork like a professional, to cutting and fitting perfect corner joints, to designing and installing crown molding, Decorating with Architectural Trimwork is the ideal how-to manual for the job. The text is very straightforward, written so that the lay reader will have no confusion, and the pictures clearly illustrate what tools are needed for each job and how they are best used. Decorating with Architectural Trimwork is a 'must' for any do-it-yourself enthusiast who wants to use trim to add to the aesthetic interior design value [of] their home!"
Bookwatch
November 2001


"Decorating with Architectural Trimwork is a full-color, 'user-friendly' guide, extensively illustrated with step-by-step photographs, which will enable anyone to personally add beauty and elegance to their home."
James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review


"If you own a house without all the trimmings, Jay Silber has a book full of suggestions. Decorating with Architectural Trimwork offers a bounty of suggestions for enhancing rooms and halls"
The Columbus Dispatch
September 29, 2001


Product Review
"If you own a house without all the trimmings, Jay Silber has a book full of suggestions. Decorating with Architectural Trimwork offers a bounty of suggestions for enhancing rooms and halls"
The Columbus Dispatch
September 29, 2001