Home decorating for dummies

By Patricia Hart McMillan, Katharine Kaye McMillan

Subjects: Interior decoration, House & Home, Home Improvement / Construction, Handbooks, manuals, etc, House & Home / Decorating, Interior Design, Amateurs' manuals, Decorating, Decorating - General, Interior decoration, handbooks, manuals, etc., Home furnishing & decoration

Description: For all kinds of people in all kinds of decorating situations. Includes tips on: basic planning--where to begin when you want to start decorating; creating surface interest--the effects of color, pattern, and texture, and the problems created by too much or too little of them; creating backgrounds--what you need to know about the special decorating requirements of your walls; tackling tough rooms--how to effectively decorate rooms that have special functional requirements; accessorizing with art and other stuff; how to make your old furniture work in a new setting; how to figure out what you can spend, and how to spend it; and the latest and greatest in styles, trends, and technology.--From publisher description.