Better Home and Garden Decorating

For nearly 50 years, home decorators have turned to "Better Homes and Gardens New Decorating Book to transform their houses into warm, personal havens for their families. The tradition continues with this all-new edition. It's your personal guide to the styles, colors, textures, fabrics, wall and window treatments, flooring, lighting, and accessories that define today's interior design. More than 900 photographs, 100 illustrations, and friendly, informative text offer you ideas for every room in the house: the kitchen, living room, family room, dining room, bedrooms, guest room, kids' rooms, baths, home office, and even outdoor areas. A fun, insightful quiz helps you discover your unique style, while a showcase of 12 houses introduces you to a diversity of decorating approaches. In addition, there are useful tips on maximizing storage, arranging rooms, and accomplishing room makeovers. Easy-to-follow descriptions make projects and quick decorating solutions a snap. This updated classic -- a dream book, workbook, room-by-room planner, and design primer bound into one volume -- is guaranteed to show you how to achieve fresh, affordable style throughout your home.

Creating a garden room is easy when you collaborate with nature. The garden presents imagery that gives life to wallpaper, lamps, carpets and fabrics. In "Garden Rooms, the first book in the "Chatelaine Home Decor series, you'll find everything you need to create that summer feeling all year long: decorating know-how, inspired colors, easy do-it-yourself projects and more. Choose a color palette from the drifts of soft shades swirling through a perennial border or the brilliance of several fiery hot-colored flowers growing close together." Garden Rooms is about flowers, botanical prints and floral cushions. But it's also about magic and mood, romance and warmth and how to achieve all those qualities in your home - indoors and out.