You're no idiot, of course. You hold the "best dressed" title at the office, you have a knack for accessorizing everyting from your office to your kitchen countertops, and you always manage to keep cool under pressure. But when it comes to decorating your home, you feel like dunking your head into a gallon of paint. Don't test color combinations on your body yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Decorating Your Home enables you to create a homey look without all the blood, sweat, and tears. From setting a realistic budget to understanding the tools of the trade, feel confident about home decorating. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:

Complete Idiot's Guide to Decorating Your Home (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

Young, Mary Ann

Reference

Alpha

Ever look around the walls of your home and think, "Blah!" Do you have Martha-Stewart envy? Do you buy decorating magazines by the dozen and just end up throwing up hands at the impossibility of the task of re-doing your home? Fret no more. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Decorating Your Home, Second Edition gives clear, easy-to-understand instruction to turn the most humble abode into a work of art. This brand new, updated second edition has even more photos than before to help you get a picture-perfect vision of your decorating dreams. An all-new chapter on decorating resources on the Web, as well as how to use such hot tickets as e-Bay to get that perfect item for your home at a perfectly low price.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Decorating Your Home, Second Edition (2nd Edition)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

This guide is for anyone who is interested in learning or re-learning the art of embroidery or needlepoint. Containing a history of needlecrafts, as well as an updated look at its uses for your home and wardrobe, it explains how to deal with such concepts as color, balance, scale, and texture, and how to incorporate your own personal syle. Everything you need to know about the art of embroidery, including needle and thread types, materials, stitch types, frames, techniques, enlarging or reducing designs, monogramming, and project ideas, is in this book.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Needlework

La Duchesse de La Valli Re, Volume 1 (French Edition)

Genlis, Stphanie Flicit

Biographies & Memoirs

Nabu Press

The Salvage Sisters' Guide to Finding Style in the Street and Inspiration in the Attic

Inspired by everyday objects, the Salvage Sisters rescue more than fifty common castoffs—orphaned drawers, a hobbled couch, a broken birdbath—and cleverly transform them into style statements loaded with ingenuity, wit, and humor. Join intrepid hunters and gatherers Kathleen Hackett and MaryAnn Young in this step-by-step illustrated guide as they travel the country—down alleyways and side streets, to flea markets and yard sales, through the local garden store and their own closets—and learn how to transform a battered curbside couch into a fabulous and functional piece of furniture; raise discarded Sunday comics into an art form; customize a cookie-cutter set of drawers into an instant heirloom. The Salvage Sisters show how to cleverly incorporate the tired but treasured family china, torn lampshades, and everything else tucked away in the attic into our modern life. The simplest utilitarian objects—a plant stand, some nautical rope, an old pair of jeans—are all ingeniously reinvented in these real-life sisters’ hands. Dozens of resourceful projects—ranging from a two-second slipcover or ten-minute chandelier or frumpy mirror facelift to a dapper dog sweater and soigné table skirt—plus helpful tips, alternative project ideas, and more than 125 detailed color photographs, make this a book for anyone yearning to inject beauty and whimsy into his or her life, Salvage Sister style.

Hackett, Kathleen

Artisan

Innovate while you renovate! It's Decorating 101! Here is a comprehensive guide to decorating styles and terms, design basics, inventive solutions, tips on working with a professional, and more-presented in the illustrated format that home improvement readers love. From a room at a time to a whole house, start-from-scratch to dazzling makeovers, this book offers everything aspiring decorators need to know. € Photos and line drawings throughout plus a lush 32-page color insert € A back-of-the-book decorating kit offers templates, graph paper, and a sketchbook so readers can get started on their projects right away € Particularly timely as Trading Spaces hits the NYT bestseller list!

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Decorating Basics Illustrated

Makes stitching a cinch! This is the essential reference book for anyone interested in needlepoint embroidery, quilting, sewing, knitting, crocheting, and many other crafts. With 800 pages of information and projects, this book is the ultimate how-to book. For beginners and experts, this resource shows the best way to choose fabric, create blocks and patchwork quilts, use appliqué techniques, and use a sewing machine. It’s also great for batting, backing, and basting. Readers will have many options and ideas at their fingertips for finding the project that suits their needs, how to start it, how to finish it, and what to do if they make a mistake along the way. • Tools and techniques for embroidery, designing patterns, handling special stitches, and monogramming • Tips and tricks for needlepoint stitches, creating designs, adding flair, and finishing the needlepoint canvas • Recommended yarn and needle primers for knitting, casting on, purling, binding off stitches, increasing and decreasing, troubleshooting, adding color, and fixing common problems • Crocheting tools and stitches, creating an afghan, adding color, reading patterns, shaping, handling specialty stitches, and more • Basics of sewing including working with the machine, working with fabric and patterns, seams, basting, buttons, zippers, hems, and more • Includes patterns for making afghans, hats, window treatments, pillows and more • An excellent value for anyone who wants to learn more than one craft • Features both instructional/how-to content and project patterns that even beginners can make

Complete Idiots Guide Big Book of Needle Arts and Crafts (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

Ehrlich, Laura

Diven, Gail

Willis, Lydia

The Legacy of a Wife: Unfiltered and Unadulterated Wisdom for Wives and Their Husbands

Self-Help

Relationships

Outskirts Press

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