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More Sew-It-Yourself Home Decor: Over 50 Easy-To-Make Designs For Beds, Chairs, Tables And WindowsTotal Hits - 307  |  Hits Today - 5Rating:   Rating Average (1)    |  View Ratings  |  Add Your Rating
Today's homeowners want their homes to be distinctive and stylish without hiring expensive decorators and designers - now they can create the look they want easily and inexpensively with this companion to the very popular Sew-It-Yourself Home Décor. With the same brilliant photography and easy to follow instructions for even more fabulous projects, sewers will easily create elegant window dressings, cushions, bedcovers, table linens and more.

This beautifully illustrated book presents simple, step-by-step instructions, as well as color photos and illustrations, for more than 50 home decor projects for every room in the house. The book includes a list of tools and materials needed to complete the projects, as well as instruction on basic sewing techniques, ensuring success for beginners as well as experts.

-50 easy-to-create, yet elegant home décor projects for every room -Step-by-step instructions, color photos and illustrations -Features a list of tools and materials needed

 

ISBN: 0873498038   Date Published on 1/29/2005
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House Beautiful Slipcovers (Great Style)Total Hits - 190  |  Hits Today - 5Rating:   Rating Average (0)    |  View Ratings  |  Add Your Rating
In a decade that emphasizes comfort and casualness over opulence and excess, slipcovers provide a stylishly offhand, easy-going look to any room. In this new volume, the editors of House Beautiful magazine examine the ways in which slipcovers can transform and revitalize any decorating scheme. More than 120 beautiful color photographs illustrate the practical and aesthetic roles these great cover-ups can play, whether creating a seasonal change, protecting upholstery, giving new life to an old piece of furniture, or turning a simple chair into sumptuously dressed seating for a special occasion. Also presented are myriad examples of slipcover styles and the moods they create -- tailored or loose-fitting, romantic or urbane, classic or modernist.

Included, too, is advice from decorators and designers on choosing the perfect fabric from the reliability and durability of cotton to the lushness of velvet and chiffon, from the tranquility of solids to the playfulness of mixed patterns -- and adding those all- important finishing touches: welting, buttons and bows, ruffles, and skirtings.

ISBN: 0688116647   Date Published on 12/31/2001
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Brunschwig & Fils Up Close : From Grand Rooms to Your Rooms Total Hits - 3358  |  Hits Today - 4 Rating:   Rating Average (1)    |  View Ratings  |  Add Your Rating
Everywhere you look, the look is Brunschwig. From grand rooms in the White House and the Palace of Versailles to romantic retreats in country cottages and seaside homes, Brunschwig & Fils fabrics, wall coverings, and furnishings are used to create timeless, personal, and beautiful interiors.
ISBN: 0821228595   Date Published on 4/14/2005
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FABRIC MAGICTotal Hits - 1786  |  Hits Today - 4Rating:   Rating Average (7)    |  View Ratings  |  Add Your Rating

This revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Magic series offers the most up-to-date and practical information needed to decora te stylishly without a decorator. The practical techniques presented here, traditional and innovative, are easy to carry out and offer various ways of putting your personal stamp on everything. Color photos.

The best-selling guide to decorating with fabric, revised and updated with new photographs and techniques, including:

Transforming fabrics by layering, joining, pleating, stitching, adding edgings, and inserting borders.

Coloring fabrics by painting, patting, daubing, spattering, stenciling, tie-dye, and wax-resist.

Making roller, Roman, Austrian, and inverted-pleat shades.

Making lined and interlined curtains using pencil pleat, French pleat, box pleat, gathered, bunch, slot, scalloped, and goblet headings.

Draping and dressing sheers and curtains with swags and tails, tie-bands, cornices, and valances.

Making bed linen for a wide range of bed styles -- duvets, pillowcases, dust ruffles, and bedspreads.

Covering screens.

Making box, throw, and "hamburger" cushions.

Making table cloths.

Basic sewing techniques, from mitering corners to inserting zippers. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Fabric, declares the author, is "the most exciting element" in decorating a room. Leaf through her attractive book and you'll see why. A wide range of styles is embodied here, from the opulence of a Renaissance-style hallway adorned in red silk to the lushness of creamy cotton drapes puddled on the floor to the contemporary lines of smartly striped Roman blinds to the rustic charm of gingham curtains. Melanie Paine explains how to choose, combine, manipulate, and paint on fabrics, as well as how to choose a style for window dressing, beds and bedding, and fabric coverings for walls and furnishings and ceilings. Although step-by-step directions are provided throughout for many of the items (such as various types of blinds, curtains, and bed covers), this is not a basic instructional how-to book. The New Fabric Magic is most successful and appealing as an idea book, filled with wonderful ways to use fabric to make rooms come alive. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

 

ISBN: 0679725989   Date Published on 8/19/1989
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FabricTotal Hits - 995  |  Hits Today - 4Rating:   Rating Average (7)    |  View Ratings  |  Add Your Rating

Fabric is fashion meets interior design. Featuring the very latest trends in style, color, design, and technology, this is an extravagant and invaluable guide dedicated to the beauty and limitless applications of fabric in interior design. Each section describes the development of the featured fabric followed by a review of its contemporary variations. As well as traditional fabrics such as wool, cotton, silk, and linen, the newest synthetic fabrics are included - natural fibers mixed with polyester, nylon, and polyamides. With designer profiles focusing on established designers within the particular fields and comprehensive sourse directory, this truly is a unique and facinating book.

In this introduction to fiber and fabrics, Trocm‚ presents the history and production into fabric of wool, silk, cotton, linen, rayon, and synthetics; the narrative is accompanied by color photographs that show the fabrics' use in interior design. Lacking is a description of which fabrics are best for particular uses, especially in soft ouse. Well suited for professional, academic, and large interior design collections.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

ISBN: 1840004606   Date Published on 8/20/2001
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April Cornell at Home: Glorious Prints And Patterns To Decorate And Enhance Your Home Total Hits - 987  |  Hits Today - 4Rating:   Rating Average (11)    |  View Ratings  |  Add Your Rating
For many, April Cornell floral prints are quite simply a way of life. Famous for bold prints in vivid colors, devoted fans avidly follow and collect each season's range of tablecloths, napkins, linens, and home accessories. From springtime yellows and summery shades, to even more intense winter hues, April Cornell's fresh, seasonal interpretations have kept customers coming back for more, in the process of catapulting a humble store into a multimillion dollar retail empire, with more than one hundred stores across North America.
ISBN: 0976585189   Date Published on 3/1/2006
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Upholstery Basics (Singer Sewing Reference Library) (Singer)Total Hits - 307  |  Hits Today - 4Rating:   Rating Average (0)    |  View Ratings  |  Add Your Rating
I have several books so far about upholstery, but by far, this singer book is the best. The title is not misleading. It is about basics, but with it's common sense instructions and useful illustrations, the techniques demonstrated can be combined and used to reupholster many styles of furniture. If you are looking for a book to teach you about more advanced techniques, you will have to look elsewhere, but if you are just beginning, then I can't think of a better source to take fear out of your first project.
Gave me the assurance that my project, sofa and love seat, could be done easily and have a professional look. Pictures and text make it easy to follow and apply the instructions. Suggested tools are a must for desired results.
An Excellent Reference and How-to Book
Like the others in the Singer Reference Library series, this book is a step-by-step manual. The instructions are clear; the illustrations meaningful. Its title says it all: 'Upholstery Basics'-- from the ground up, so to speak. I have not done any projects yet, but am now not afraid to try.
ISBN: 0865733198   Date Published on 10/1/1997
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Soft Furnishings for Your HomeTotal Hits - 293  |  Hits Today - 4Rating:   Rating Average (0)    |  View Ratings  |  Add Your Rating
Soft Furnishings for Your Home (Paperback)
ISBN: 1564772012   Date Published on 3/1/1997
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Soft Furnishings: Pleasures Of HomeTotal Hits - 256  |  Hits Today - 4Rating:   Rating Average (0)    |  View Ratings  |  Add Your Rating
Use fabric with confidence and flair! Take a look around your room, determine its style, and then begin a process of marvelous transformation. Each project here features an entire room, so you can see how to add a variety of soft details designed specifically for its specific form and function--and how to create a coherent and harmonious effect. The full range of soft furnishings is covered: curtains, pelmets, blinds, loose covers, cushions, and table and bed linen. Take the expert advice on choosing appropriate colors, patterns, and end patterns for the style you prefer. Among the interiors featured here--Cottage Bedrooms and Provençal Kitchens. And beautiful cased sheer curtains add a fresh, airy look to any room. Whatever décor you prefer, you'll find a unique blend of inspiration and practical advice. 128 pages (all in color), 9 3/4 x 9 3/4.
ISBN: 0304350915   Date Published on 12/31/1998
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Making Pillows and Slipcovers: Cushions, Bolsters, Bean Bags and Chair Covers to Transform Your HomeTotal Hits - 255  |  Hits Today - 4Rating:   Rating Average (1)    |  View Ratings  |  Add Your Rating
Making Pillows and Slipcovers: Cushions, Bolsters, Bean Bags and Chair Covers to Transform Your Home
ISBN: 184215379X   Date Published on 3/25/2001

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