"He offers specific, easy-to-follow instructions for sewing tie-on dining chair covers that chichi caterers use. Other do-it-yourself highlights include directions for creating table napkins with zigzag borders, sofa cushions with scalloped edges, and roulea-edged pillowcases. Best of all, the instructions are accessible and use widely available materials. If you can't stitch a hem, you can always share this resourceful book with your favorite seamstress. All the ideas embrace Conran's signature contemporary, continental, and simple design ethos."--"Better Homes and Gardens."

Learn to decorate like the pros and discover every rooms potential with Room Redux. Interior designers Joann Eckstut and Sheran James have developed the book that could make their job obsolete. Starting with how to appraise your needs and create a furniture floor plan, and progressing step-by-step toward the big decisionscolors, fabrics, walls, floors, and furniturethe authors friendly, savvy style demystifies the process and frees up the decorator within. Lively and instructive illustrations will empower even novice home decorators to develop their own style, and the fun scrapbook for-mat will keep those creative juices flowing. Tabbed for quick access and complete with graph paper and furniture cutouts for floor plans, plus pockets for clippings, fabric samples, and color swatches, the format is utterly approachable. For renters looking for quick-and-easy fixes as well as homeowners ready to overhaul entire rooms, Room Redux is the one-stop resource for guidance, inspiration, and great results.

An invaluable reference and hands-on book which shows how to achieve smart and stylish soft furnishings. It covers everything you need to know about planning, measuring, estimating fabric and making successful soft furnishings.

Lavishly illustrated and thoroughly practical, this guide is an indispensable source of inspiration, giving do-it-yourself decorators all they need to bring the simple elegance of the Arts and Crafts style into their homes. 250 color images.

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Home Edit and stars of the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit present 52 home-editing challenges and activities to get you motivated and organizing every room of your house. Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin are back with a fun, practical workbook to jumpstart your home organization. Here are 52 challenges for every room—from clearing out a junk drawer to measuring your cabinet for storage bins to arranging the apps on your phone by color. The workbook is structured so you can tackle one challenge a week or breeze through your whole home in a few months, featuring: • Space for writing checklists, shopping lists, and to-do lists • Activities that help you accomplish your goals at your own pace • Writing prompts for capturing memories connected to the things you own and love • Helpful organization tips and tricks • Plus, gold star stickers for rewarding yourself along the way!

An entertaining and informative decorating guide, filled with professional and personal anecdotes, shows readers how to find and implement their own personal style within a realistic budget, providing an abundance of advice on shopping, working with design professionals, and much more. 20,000 first printing.

Domain, one of the country's fastest growing furniture chains, presents the first interactive home-decorating book to marry the culture of home with the psychology of style. 200 color photos.

A comprehensive resource for understanding the categories of consumer goods for the home and the raw products utilized to make them, Know Your Home Furnishings, Second Edition, enables students to understand the major categories of home furnishings and the diverse consumer demand for fashionable and functional products. This new edition is up-to-date with all the latest industry trends and important people. With new material covering kitchenware, electronics, window treatments, and historical furniture, Know Your Home Furnishings is more indispensable than ever.

The author measured original Stickley furniture pieces to create these detailed plans, not available from any other source. The author is a Master Cabinet Maker and Executive Editor at Popular Woodworking Magazine. Intermediate woodworkers can use these plans to build authentic replicas of valuable period pieces at low cost. The ongoing renaissance of the Craftsman style has already lasted longer than the original period, and is here to stay. Furniture making is part of the fastest growing category -- "woodcrafts" -- in the $31 billion craft industry.