Interior Design Ideas: Inside an English Home

There's more to making a house a home than just choosing color schemes for the rooms. But what gives your home the style and charadcter that says it's yours rather than anybody else's? The secret lies in letting your personality show in the rooms, through pictures and decorative details. You can also make your house work for you; this book tells you how to use every inch of your home to its best advantage.This book aims to help you re-evaluate your house and what you want from it, rather than to give step-by-step instructions on how to make or repair things. Interior Design Ideas is full of stimulating and interesting decorative ideas on how to tailor the whole house to your family's needs and lifestyles. Everything you want to know is covered thoroughly, with imagination and tons of photos.There's a full chapter devoted to each room, dealing with the subjects of lighting, practical wall and floor coverings, storage ideas, window treatments, color schemes, decorative details, and much more. It leads you round the house in the most logical order, overflowing with ideas as it goes, and finishes with a section on extending your home without building an extension.