Complete Home Decorator

by Sally Walton and Stewart Walton

Book Overview

The complete home decorator: Walls, windows, lights, covers, embellishments, chairs, beds, trimmings, containers, accessories. The complete companion to transforming every room of your home. Includes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1901289079
• ISBN13: 9781901289077
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Hermes House (UK)
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 5.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

rileys gammy

Beautiful Coffee table book. Full of decorative rooms and ideas. Tons of pictures and information to decorate from start.

Simple, creative ideas

This book is full of DIY project ideas - from shelves to headboards to decorative accessories. Some of the ideas I'd like to try, others I have no interest in trying - just not my style. Most of the projects are simple and use basic items in different, sometimes not so appealing, ways.

Lots of ideas

I just bought this book as a bargain book at Border's and think I got a really good deal! The book has over 1000 color photographs and 200 projects that are very doable being written in a step-by-step format. The techniques they used are transferrable to any kind of scheme I might think of on my own, so I started thinking of all kinds of possibilities with materials I already have that are treasures I have saved for just such purposes. The glue gun and stapler are used a lot and many projects may be done quickly. It helps you see in a different way with a minimum of time, expense and effort while stimulating creativity! Some examples are: 1) a gilded chair made from a caned bentwood chair with a damaged seat. Instead of recaning, the seat was replaced with plywood and the whole chair gilded. 2) a Japanese futon where the cotton bedcover is made from a decorator's dust sheet and the base made from wooden pallets. 3) a Tuscan doorway, which is trompe d'oeil using paints carefully layered and rubbed for an aged look. Do you know how cool a director's chair looks covered with kilim carpet material rather than plain canvas? There is no one style. Some of it is minimalistic and some is flat-out romantic. Many can be done probably in an hour or two.