Home Decorating for Dummies [Paperback]

Worried about spending a fortune decorating your house but ending up with more of a mess than a makeover? Let Home Decorating For Dummies spark your imagination and help bring your ideas and enthusiasm to life with practical, money–saving suggestions on space planning, furniture selection, window treatments, and accessorizing your own home. Give your home that million–dollar makeover easily and economically with this wonderful hands–on guide to creating your own sense of style and grace...on any budget!

Hundreds of ideas, resources, and budget–wise tips from this decor–savvy mother–and–daughter team of interior designers will inspire you to new heights of interior design projects yourself. Glance through more than 30 pages of full–color photos for some great inspiration, from bright lighting ideas to moldings, wallpapers, fabrics, accessories, floor coverings, and more. Discover the fundamentals of decorating and design, make a room fit your style with the right colors and textures, and create looks with timeless appeal in any room of the house. From floor to ceiling, you′ll be impressed with this book′s clever solutions to all those familiar decorating woes.

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.

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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!

"Home Decorating For Dummies will help you design your own magic environment." — Oleg Cassini, Designer

A Reference for the Rest of Us!

"Thanks to Home Decorating For Dummies, even a novice can learn to achieve comfort with style." —Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub, Home & Garden Editor, Sun–Sentinel Newspaper, South Florida

"The co authors demystify the entire process to help you achieve professional results." —Olivia Bell Buehl, Author of Tiles: Choosing Designing and Living with Ceramic Tile

Give Your Home a Million–Dollar Makeover —Easily and Economically!

Create a Look That Says "Welcome Home!"

Worried you′ll spend a fortune decorating and end up with house of horrors? Let Home Decorating For Dummies ® spark your imagination and help bring your 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 a nationally recognized interior designer, writer, and magazine editor. She has coauthored three definitive books on interior design and has taught dozens of college courses and seminars on interior design. Her design work for private clients, designer showcase houses, and corporations has appeared in magazines and books worldwide. She currently contributes feature articles and interior design projects to numerous magazines. Previously, she has held editorial posts at remodeling magazines, newspapers, and other decorating publications, and has been director of a home furnishings public relations firm. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with a minor in art history (with an emphasis in architecture), from the State University of New York (New Paltz) and a certificate of interior design from The New York School of Interior Design.

Katherine Kaye McMillan is a writer who contributes to numerous design and decorating magazines and other publications and is co–author with her mother, Patricia Hart McMillan, of other decorating books. She is contributing editor to Florida Design and Design: The Magazine of Luxurious Living. A graduate of the University of Texas (Austin), she is president of McMillan Associates Public Relations and a novelist.