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The Insider's Guide To Becoming Your Own Decorator
Gotham
November 2009
On Sale: November 3, 2009
272 pages ISBN: 1592405061 EAN: 9781592405060 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
The essential do-it-yourself guide from one of the top
designers in the country that uncovers the secret home
design rules used by the pros Many design books are filled
with lavish photography of perfect rooms that most of us can
only dream of re-creating. Without any practical advice, the
look is unattainable. That's where Design Rules comes in.
Here, Elaine Griffin, one of the country's 100 top designers
(House Beautiful), explains all the practical decorating
standards that professionals use behind the scenes to create
flowing, balanced, gorgeous design. Packed with helpful
illustrations and hundreds of step-by-step tips, Design
Rules includes essential advice such as: •Pick a pleasing
color palette (that really works) •Correctly size their
bedsize tables (so they don't tower over their beds)
•Enhance the visual appeal of windowless rooms (so they're
not dungeons) •Design furniture arrangements that function
and flow •Style up even the most forlorn kitchens, baths and
yes, basements and laundry rooms (honey, no space is too
dreadful to be made ultra fab) •Brighten up their kitchens
with a can of paint and a burst of strategically-placed
color (location, location, location!) •Figure out which
styles of furniture go together (there is a rule and it's
easy!) •Make their own personalities shine throughout their
homes (because they should) •And oodles more! Design Rules
is for the growing number of savvy, novice home designers
who are well-versed in what good design looks like, but need
advice on how to translate it into their own home. It is the
home design bible people have been waiting for.
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