Home Decorating For Dummies

Home Decorating For Dummies

Enhanced by more than twenty-four pages of new full-color photographs and a variety of new projects, a beginner's guide to home decorating provides tips on designing the kitchen, bath, and home office, furnishing helpful advice on spatial planning, accessory styles, fabrics, flooring, paint, window treatment, furnishings, accessories, and other design ideas. Original "The perfect book for the frustrated interior decorator in each of us!" —Karla Krengel, Kitchens.com Easy, affordable solutions for stunning home makeovers Give your home a great new look! Turn your home into a designer showplace without spending designer dollars! This friendly guide shows you how to create stunning rooms by mastering your own personal decorating style. Expert advice and cost-cutting tips will help you create the home of your dreams, whether you want to paint one room or redesign your entire house. Praise for Home Decorating For Dummies "This guide will prepare you with the basic recipes you will need to make your interior more pleasurable." – Karim Rashid, Famous Designer "Wow! Has there ever been a more complete home decorating tutorial? This step-by-step guide instills confidence as a complete home decorating course or as an invaluable resource for specific information." —Caroline H.S. Hipple, President, Storehouse Furniture, Inc. Discover how to: Prepare a floor plan - Mix colors, patterns, and textures - Make the most of small spaces - Create focal points in every room - Design floors, ceilings, and walls that grab attention "The perfect book for the frustrated interior decorator in each ofus!" —Karla Krengel, Kitchens.com Easy, affordable solutions for stunning home makeovers Give your home a great new look! Turn your home into a designer showplace without spendingdesigner dollars! This friendly guide shows you how to createstunning rooms by mastering your own personal decorating style.Expert advice and cost-cutting tips will help you create the homeof your dreams, whether you want to paint one room or redesign yourentire house. Praise for Home Decorating For Dummies "This guide will prepare you with the basic recipes you willneed to make your interior more pleasurable." – Karim Rashid, Famous Designer "Wow! Has there ever been a more complete home decoratingtutorial? This step-by-step guide instills confidence as a completehome decorating course or as an invaluable resource for specificinformation." —Caroline H.S. Hipple, President, Storehouse Furniture,Inc. Discover how to: Prepare a floor plan - Mix colors, patterns, and textures - Make the most of small spaces - Create focal points in every room - Design floors, ceilings, and walls that grab attention Katharine Kaye McMillan, former senior editor of a New YorkCity-based national magazine, is a writer whose work appearsregularly in magazines and newspapers. She is a contributing writerto internationally circulated Florida Design Magazine. Sheis the co-author of several books on decorating and design,including Sun Country Style, which is the basis for licensedsignature collections of furniture and accessories by three leadingAmerican manufacturers and importers. A graduate of the Universityof Texas in Austin, she holds a masters degree in psychology and isa doctoral student in psychology at Florida Atlantic University,Boca Raton, Florida. Patricia Hart McMillan is a nationally known interiordesigner, whose interior design work for private clients, designershowcases, and corporations has appeared in publications worldwide,including the New York Times and USA Today. Known asa trend spotter and for clearly articulated views on design, she isquoted frequently and extensively in both trade and consumerpublications. She a ppears on TV and talk radio. A prolific writer,she is coauthor and author of seven books on interior design anddecoration, with Sun Country Style signature collections offurniture based on two books. She has taught decorating courses atseveral colleges and conducted numerous seminars across the U.S.She is decorating editor for Christian Woman Magazine andreports on design trends for The Sun-Sentinel, a Tribunenewspaper based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She has beeneditor-in-chief of two publications and was head of a New YorkCity-based public relations firm representing some of the mostprestigious names in home furnishing and building products. Sheholds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with a minor in arthistory (with an emphasis in architecture), from the StateUniversity of New York (New Paltz). She was awarded a certificatefrom The New York School of Interior Design.