Product Description

Do you long to create picture–perfect rooms but can’t quite seem to achieve them? Do you want better functioning spaces for working, playing, or living? Do you clamor to express your personal style? If you said “yes” to any of these questions, you’ve turned to the right source for real answers from the pros.

Home Decorating For Dummies, 2nd Edition is for all kinds of people in all kinds of decorating situations, including:

• First–time buyers or renters. You have a whole new place to decorate. Where do you start?
• Second– or third–time home buyers. Whether you’ve gone up or down in size, stayed in the same region or moved to a whole new one, you need to know how to make your old furniture work in a new setting, how to add furnishings, and how to make your style seem fresh.
• Newly blended families. He has furniture, she has furniture, they have furniture. Can it all work together harmoniously? Indeed!
• And anyone else who loves decorating. Don’t forget: Imagination counts.

Each part of Home Decorating For Dummies, deals with a broad area of decorating, and each chapter contains specific and detailed information. You′ll discover tips on

• Basic planning – where to begin when you want to start decorating
• Creating surface interest – the effects of color, pattern, and texture, and the problems created by too much or too little of them
• Creating backgrounds – what you need to know about the special decorating requirements of your walls
• Tackling tough rooms – how to effectively decorate rooms that have special functional requirements
• Accessorizing with art and other stuff – adding the final flourishes to every space in your place

Home Decorating For Dummies, 2nd Edition contains all the basics – including how to figure out what you can spend; how to spend it; and the latest and greatest in styles, trends, and technology. What do you do with your space next? The possibilities are endless.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69401 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From the Publisher
Give your home a million dollar makeover!
Worried you'll spend a fortune decorating and end up with a house of horrors? Let "Home Decorating For Dummies™" spark your imagination and help bring our ideas and enthusiasm to life with money-saving, practical suggestions on space planning, furniture styles, window treatments, and accessorizing with art and personal mementos. This hands-on guide shows you how to find your own sense of style and create a space you'll be proud to call home.

Patricia Hart McMillan is an acclaimed interior designer with more than 20 years of experience. Her designs have been featured in numerous books and magazines worldwide, including House Beautiful's Home Decorating Guide, McCall's, Woman's Day, and Parade as well as on Home & Garden' TV's Decorating with Style. She writes frequently about design for seven different publications. Katharine Kay McMillan is an author and contributor to numerous periodicals on the subjects of decorating and design, lifestyle, beauty, and fashion. She is a contributing editor to two internationally distributed interior design magazines.

IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., headquartered in Foster City, Calif., is a leading global knowledge company featuring a diverse portfolio of technology, business and self-help books and computer-based learning tools, including the best-selling …For Dummies®, ...Secrets® and Teach Yourself® and Cliffs Notes™ brands. IDG Books Worldwide has more than 700 active titles plus translations in 36 languages around the world. IDG Books Worldwide is a subsidiary of International Data Group, a leading global provider of information technology media, research, conferences and expositions.

From the Author
Be smart! Get the best decorating reference on the market!
Patricia Hart McMillan designed "Home Decorating For Dummies" just for you! It's packed with tons of design concepts, useful information, Quick & Easy Decorating Ideas and Decorating Magic! Lots of pretty full-color pictures, b/w photos, and illustrations make this book the best decorating tool ever! Put a copy in your "decorating kit" today! Makes a great gift, too!

From the Back Cover
"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

Customer Reviews

A great , easy-to-use guide to the basics
The principles the book provides are easy to grasp and fun to apply. Instead of just providing scores of pretty pictures, this book is the only one I've found that actually explains to the layperson the theory behind what makes color, texture and form work.

Abousolutely Fantastic
From the moment I picked up this book I knew I was in for an inspiring read.