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Decorating with Color

Book Description
Bring the world of color into your home. Decorating with Color, the latest from the editors of Martha Stewart Living , features eleven color palettes inspired by nature and everyday objects. Within each palette, whether honeycomb, sea glass, lustreware, or melon, you will discover how to create comfortable, inviting rooms that shelter and soothe.

Color can be intimidating. Many of us rely on neutrals, unsure of how to combine stronger colors without having them clash. Yet for Martha Stewart, a house is not a home until it is filled with color. In Decorating with Color, Martha and the editors of Martha Stewart Living share the lessons they have learned over years of decorating hundreds of spaces. In some cases, changing the look of a room may be as simple as painting the inside of a kitchen cabinet blue or displaying a collection of sunny yellow pitchers atop a dark chest of drawers. Or you might choose a lively green for the bedroom walls but keep the fabrics and furniture understated. The eleven palettes in this book will help you recognize the colors and textures that add up to beautiful, cohesive rooms. In each chapter, you will find examples of paint chips, fabric swatches, and simple, stylish projects to inspire you whenever you decorate.

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Bring the world of color into your home. Decorating with Color, the latest from the editors of Martha Stewart Living , features eleven color palettes inspired by nature and everyday objects. Within each palette, whether honeycomb, sea glass, lustreware, or melon, you will discover how to create comfortable, inviting rooms that shelter and soothe.

Color can be intimidating. Many of us rely on neutrals, unsure of how to combine stronger colors without having them clash. Yet for Martha Stewart, a house is not a home until it is filled with color. In Decorating with Color, Martha and the editors of Martha Stewart Living share the lessons they have learned over years of decorating hundreds of spaces. In some cases, changing the look of a room may be as simple as painting the inside of a kitchen cabinet blue or displaying a collection of sunny yellow pitchers atop a dark chest of drawers. Or you might choose a lively green for the bedroom walls but keep the fabrics and furniture understated. The eleven palettes in this book will help you recognize the colors and textures that add up to beautiful, cohesive rooms. In each chapter, you will find examples of paint chips, fabric swatches, and simple, stylish projects to inspire you whenever you decorate.

Decorating With Color: Inspired Ideas for Your Home

From Library Journal
These two books, full of photographs, will give the amateur and experienced decorative painter a wealth of ideas for using decorative paint techniques and color to decorate the home. Decorating with Color begins with an overview of color and how light, tone, and texture can affect color perception, continuing with well-written instructions on different paint techniques such as sponging and combing, with photos illustrating each step of the instructions. The Decorated Home is full of more advanced decorative paint projects and effects to decorate rooms, furniture, and decorative accessories, with the same well-written, step-by-step, illustrated instructions as found in Color. Both are recommended for public libraries.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Decorating With Flea Market Finds

Decorating with Funky Shui: How to Lighten Up, Loosen Up, and Have Fun Decorating Your...

From Publishers Weekly
"If Feng Shui is the art of arranging objects to promote harmony, then Funky Shui is the art of arranging objects to make your home and your life fun," note the authors of this guide to "playful good taste." Borrowing from (and merrily riffing on) the lexicon of Feng Shui, the Chinese design philosophy that has garnered so much attention in recent years, the sisters offer a trove of suggestions on how to showcase quirky objects, create themed rooms with kitschy charm and integrate color and lighting to ensure good cheer, evoke pleasant memories and generate a sense of both stabilizing harmony and off-kilter whimsy. Arranging snow globes, stringing twinkle lights and serving chocolate milk in fine china are among their conduits to fun. Each chapter addresses a different room in the home, and offers tips on reinvigorating these spaces with cheeky, winking touches (a surfboard-turned-desk for the home office, silk scarves draped over the bedside lamp, black-and-white autographed pictures for the dining room). Some of the tips are too time-consuming for everyday life, and those who cant stomach the cutesy bits wont want to follow the advice to the letter. But the sisters have included plenty of good ideas for imbue a home (and therefore, they affirm, the life of its residents) with happiness-without spending a fortune.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Book Description
Decorating with Funky Shui encourages you to dig out all those wild and crazy pieces you've been hiding. So c'mon, gather up all those snow globes and let the disco ball sparkle in your living room. Let your rooms tell people who you really are-if you dare.Your home should be a reflection of your own personality, not a hodgepodge of mass-produced whatnots from a "big-box" chain retail store. Inspired by the popular Chinese art of feng shui, this lighthearted book takes you through the "Fun-damentals," the four directions to make your house yours, all yours: Find the playful center of the room: It can be a random garage-sale treasure, that cool mannequin you didn't think you could find a place for, or the tarnished tuba you inherited from Grandpa. That one goofy, unusual, or chic conversation piece can become the star of your room. Brighten up with color: Not everything has to match your boring beige sofa. Rooms without color lack flavor. Enlighten up: Fun, dynamic lighting can brighten a room in more ways than one. Candles add coziness; Christmas lights sparkle year-round. A string of hot-pepper lights can spice up a cool room. Abundance through abundance: The souvenirs you pick up during road trips. Your collection of vintage milk-bottle caps. All the Pez dispensers you can't bear to part with. If you've got 'em, flaunt 'em. Artfully display your collections-whatever they may be-to show them off.Decorating with Funky Shui encourages you to stretch your imagination to find a style that's uniquely you.

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Decorating with Mini-Lights: 40 Sparkling Ideas and Projects for Home and Garden

Product Description
They twinkle as brightly as on Christmas Eve, but mini-lights aren’t just for holidays anymore.

Economical, safer than candles, and available in many styles, they produce beautiful effects indoors and out. The vast decorative possibilities shine on every page, with ideas ranging from traditional white and rainbow strings to large gleaming, flickering orbs. Show off collections with lighted display shelves, bring the garden in with a star-kissed bower of glimmering plants, or give a young girl a pretty princess canopy over her bed. Illuminate windows with lights and lace or make a patio shine. Go through the year with seasonal sensations, from a spring wedding arbor to a spooky Halloween House to an enticing Valentine’s table for 2. Every lighting design is brilliant.


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Put up twinkling mini-lights and suddenly any room or garden becomes a shimmering wonderland. They will create a captivating, fairytale atmosphere in no time, making any setting irresistibly entrancing whatever the season. From icicles to galaxy balls, all of the mind-boggling varieties available will have a big effect on your décor; in fact, the only "mini"s in mini-lights are mini-effort, mini-cost, and mini-maintenance. Try these fabulous ideas and projects not only at special occasions like parties, but also whenever you want to please yourself. Add romance by putting up a Glowing Spring Wedding Arbor; set a celebratory mood with a Brilliant Bar; make a little girl's wish come true when you give her a Little Princess Canopy; light up your garden with a tomato cage chandelier--and more.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Decorating with Mosaics

Product Review
Although more-experienced mosaicists will want to look elsewhere, Decorating with Mosaics offers a decent introduction to the craft. Clear color photos illustrate every step of the directions, as well as the finished product. Utilizing shards of china and ceramic tiles with the occasional array of seashells or terra cotta, projects include bowls, plates, flowerpots, boxes, a small table, a birdbath, and a bathroom backsplash. The designs are not exceptional nor are the colors especially exciting, but the presentation is less intimidating than more-advanced guides and should prove helpful to the novice. --Amy Handy

Book Description
Mosaic artists of any skill level will want to try these 20 unique mosaic projects, which include furniture and home designs, mosaics for the garden, and gifts and accessories. Clear instructions and step-by-step photos ensure that even the beginner finds success. Experienced mosaic artists will be intrigued by the use of paper-mache, colored grout, and other innovative ideas not explored in other mosaic books.

Decorative Painting Zhostovo Style

Book Description
Have you always admired the Zhostovo style, but never dared attempt it yourself? Well, here's the book you've been waiting for! This complete, step-by-step guide will help you master the traditional Russian style of decorative painting . . . its graceful brushstrokes, brightly colored flowers, luminous dark backgrounds, and those gorgeous, ornate gold borders. Your teacher is Heather Redick, one of America's premier painters of the Zhostovo style and a student of Russian master Larisa Dyatlova.

Clear photos lead you through each step, from loading the brush to building each flower brushstroke by brushstroke. You'll learn all about brush placement, color changes, direction, shapes, relationships, and the rhythm and movement created by flowing brushstrokes even how to create your own floral designs! Eleven magnificent projects feature floral, fruit and bird motifs--including two basic projects to get you started and two advanced projects to inspire you to develop your Zhostovo skills. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About The Author
Heather Redick, CDA studied with Russian master painter Larisa Dyatlova. Today, Redick is one of the premier painters and teachers of the Zhostovo style. She lives in Ontario, Canada. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Design and Details: Creative Ideas for Styling Your Home

Product Review
Many disparate elements go into decorating a room, but all must work together harmoniously for the room to succeed as a whole. This lavishly illustrated volume demonstrates how to learn to visualize making a whole room come together through in-depth exploration of four areas: lighting, designing with tiles, adding color to walls, and utilizing architectural details. Some of the rooms pictured here are highly ornate, while others are elegantly simple; some glow with the warmth of wood, and others are cool and sleek. The gorgeous photos and helpful commentary offer countless ideas for bringing new life to tired homes, or to homes that never woke up in the first place. Covering a wide array of styles from traditional to contemporary, classic to quirky, the suggestions range from the general (drawing attention away from a high ceiling gives the room greater intimacy) to the specific (a collection of blue-and white chinaware shows up much more effectively against a warmer-colored wall). For sheer visual wealth, this volume is an excellent reference on turning your home into a work of art. --Amy Handy

Product Description
Packed with lavish full-color photography, Design & Details explores the many ways to bring life to your home, from making a splash with an unusual color of paint and changing the lighting scheme to laying down tiles and playing up architectural details. Every page will inspire design excellence.

Design Ideas for Home Decorating (Design Ideas)

Product Description
A general decorating book that presents design solutions for every room in the house, and for every budget.


Book Description
An ever-popular topic in the house and home category, Design Ideas for Home Decorating shows readers how to transform an ordinary house into a beautiful home. A brand new title from the best-selling Design Ideas series, this book features hundreds of gorgeous photographs showcase the work of many of today's leading designers. Savvy tips and advice include examples of basic design concepts and how to apply them to every room in the house. Topics include working with space; furniture arrangement; creating a color scheme; and finding a personal style.