Transform a room, a window or a cupboard quickly, dramatically and inexpensive with advice from a professional interior decorator. There are more than 40 decorating ideas in this book that are grouped in chapters which indicates how long each project takes to make. Choose to make a lampshade from photocopied music in around an hour or spend a weekend on a complete bathroom makeover. A variety of techniques - stencilling, paint finishes, trompe l'oeil, and decoupage - are clearly explained, and are accompanied by colour photographs and illustrations throughout. Tips on flower arranging and ideas for door and window treatments, as well as examples of fool-proof colour schemes are included.

Decorating Tricks: Touches of Style (Decorating Tricks)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Colvin, Margaret

Crafts & Hobbies

Hamlyn/Octopus

Using simple ideas and easy techniques Maggie Colvin shows how to transform your home with 40 projects, some feasible in as little as 20 minutes, others that can take a whole weekend to accomplish.

Maggie Colvin's Decorating Tricks

Home Improvement & Design

Hamlyn Publishing

All in color! Create stylish accessories and stunning decorative effects in your home with these simple, time-saving, cost-effective approaches. Packed with more than forty new ideas to turn everyday "junk" into treasures, each project lists the amount of time needed from inception to completion. Make a lampshade using photocopied sheet music in less than an hour or completely make over your bathroom in just a weekend. A variety of decorating tips, including paint finish, trompe l'oeil
, stenciling, and decoupage, are accompanied by full-color photographs and illustrations to help you along the way. Arrange a beautiful bouquet of flowers, handpaint and glaze your terra-cotta ware, or woodgrain and stencil an old table top. Whatever your level of experience, you will bring out the ultimate home decorator in you with the secrets revealed in this handy reference. Trim size: 8 3/4 x 11 1/4.

Decorating Tricks: Touches of Style : Over 40 Quick-To-Do Projects, from an Hour to a Weekend

COLVIN, MAGGIE

Hamlyn

Simple ideas and easy techniques--a top decorator proves how uncomplicated it can be to craft the very best in stylish accessories and stunning decorative effects! Packed with more than forty nifty and inexpensive ways to turn everyday "junk" into treasures, each project includes the time needed from inception to completion. Make a lampshade using photocopied sheet music in less than an hour or completely redo a bathroom in just a weekend. Full-color photographs and illustrations help you along the way, accompanied by an assortment of decorating tips, including paint finish, trompe l'oeil, stenciling, and découpage. Arrange a beautiful bouquet of flowers, handpaint and glaze terra-cotta ware, or woodgrain and stencil an old tabletop.

Instant Style: Over 40 Quick-To-Do Projects, from an Hour to a Weekend

Simple ideas and easy techniques--a top decorator proves how uncomplicated it can be to craft the very best in stylish accessories and stunning decorative effects! Packed with more than 40 nifty and inexpensive ways to turn everyday "junk" into treasures, each project includes the time needed from inception to completion. Make a lampshade using photocopied sheet music in less than an hour or completely redo a bathroom in just a weekend. Full-color photographs and illustrations help you along the way, accompanied by an assortment of decorating tips, including paint finish, trompe l'oeil, stenciling, and découpage. Arrange a beautiful bouquet of flowers, handpaint and glaze terra-cotta ware, or woodgrain and stencil an old tabletop. Whatever your level of experience, the secrets revealed in this handy reference will bring out the ultimate home decorator in you! 144 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

Decorating Projects: Tricks To Transform Your Home

Arts & Photography

"Laura Ashley" Book of Home Decorating

Dickson, Elizabeth

Architecture

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Pure fabrication: Fabric ideas for the home

Windward

"Fake" it -- for real home-decorating beauty! If you've dreamed of owning a gilded bedhead or a balcony with a breathtaking ocean view, get ready to paint those fantasies into fact. With trompe l'oeil, stenciling, color-washing, faux finishes, and other techniques, almost anything in the house becomes a canvas for adding special effects -- walls, floors, and furniture. With the trace-off motifs, add "pine" paneling; patterns that resemble inlaid stone; and landscapes and murals everywhere.

Maggie Colvin's Fabulous Fakes

Decorative Arts & Design

David&Charles

This superb book presents a range of stunning projects for transforming the home, using paint effects, the simplest of trompe l'oeil techniques, and stenciling for professional, eye-catching results. The 20 complete, step-by-step projects cover a wide range of themes including creating realistic wood and marble effects, painting trompe l'oeil rugs and bookshelves or a Greek-style balcony with fabulous views. Tips are included on how to create realistic shadows, incorporate existing architectural details and add embellishments for striking results.

Painting

Offers advice on the use of fabrics in interior decoration and explains how to sew curtains, slipcovers, cushions, bedspreads, and other home furnishings

Pure Fabrication: Fabric Ideas for the Home

UNKNO

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Decorating Tricks: Touches of Style (Decorating Tricks)

Maggie Colvin's Decorating Tricks

Decorating Tricks: Touches of Style : Over 40 Quick-To-Do Projects, from an Hour to a Weekend

Instant Style: Over 40 Quick-To-Do Projects, from an Hour to a Weekend

Decorating Projects: Tricks To Transform Your Home

"Laura Ashley" Book of Home Decorating

Pure fabrication: Fabric ideas for the home

Maggie Colvin's Fabulous Fakes

Maggie Colvin's Fabulous Fakes

Pure Fabrication: Fabric Ideas for the Home