interior decoration

Presents a comprehensive guide with step-by-step instructions for redecorating one room at a time, and offers a number of design tips.

Contains full-color illustrated photographs that describes the transformation of the author's 1920s house as she reveals her decorating and entertaining secrets.

Explains how to create the shabby chic look in every room of the house, examining various elements of the design style, and offering tips on shopping flea markets, and cleaning and repairing found items. Includes numerous illustrations.

Describes how to use Eastern philosophy to create a peaceful home with the basic design elements of harmony, simplicity, and comfort, and includes color photographs that provide ideas for decorating each room of the house.

Features nearly five hundred color and black-and-white photographs, line drawings, floor plans, and historical paintings, with descriptive text, that showcase the architectural designs of great American homes, including those of Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, and the Vanderbilts.