The Well-Decorated Floor

The Well-Decorated Floor
Author: Susan Goans Driggers
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2002
Genre: Floor covering
ISBN: 9781402700743

Why settle for plain floors when you can turn them into decorative accents that add as much to the beauty of your home as the furniture? From dramatic backdrops with broad expanses of colour to repeated stamped motifs, you can make masterpieces underfoot - indoors and out and even up the stairs.

Decorating Walls and Floors

Decorating Walls and Floors
Author: Liz Risney Manning
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Floor coverings
ISBN: 9781592230365

In any decorating scheme, the walls and floors are key to a well-designed room. Properly chosen and maintained, walls and floors can make a home come alive. This book showcases creative ways to use wall coverings to enhance and enrich your environment. For walls, it presents a variety of ideas for creating a particular style or theme by mixing wall patterns and fabrics; it shows readers how to use paper to decorate accessories, like lampshades, screens, trunks, and picture frames. For floors, it reveals the newest types of flooring available, from new options for such classics as wood, marble, and tile, to fresh and unusual treatments like bamboo, concrete, and leather; it offers tips and tricks on making lively personal spaces with painted patterns and borders; and it offers advice on how to use design elements and accessories to bring out the beauty of your floor. This beautifully illustrated guide showcases creative ways to use wall coverings and flooring to enhance and enrich your environment. Book jacket.

Young House Love

Young House Love
Author: Sherry Petersik
Publisher: Artisan
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-07-14
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1579656765

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

The Complete Home Decorating Idea Book

The Complete Home Decorating Idea Book
Author: Kathleen Stoehr
Publisher: Charles Randall International
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2007
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1890379166

The Complete Home Decorating Idea Book focuses on vertical and horizontal surfaces by examining not only windows, walls and floors but also celebrates the fifth wall ceilings! Readers will discover the clever possibilities for treating surfaces of all kinds with paint, wallpaper, tile, stone, fabric and more. Beginning with a chapter on a personal favorite, window treatments, Stoehr covers all types of hard and soft window products, as well as how to approach the decoration of a large window wall. A chapter on wall coverings follows, including paint, paper, tile, stone, fabric and wood. In section three, the decorated ceiling pulls our eyes upward from the horizontal sweep we normally experience in a room, creating a sense of satisfied completion to any interior. Decorated ceilings, our interior sky is attention to detail at its best, creating drama in the dining room or a calm, restful environment in the bedroom. Finally, we look to the floor, an area frequently overlooked but is the ultimate component for finishing any room with style. All this and more, including thousands of today's top interior photographs, will be found in The Complete Home Decorating Idea Book.

Tom Scheerer

Tom Scheerer
Author: Tom Scheerer
Publisher: Vendome Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780865653634

"In this, Scheerer's second book, sixteen of his latest projects are featured, including city houses and apartments in New York, Dallas, Houston, and Paris, summer houses in the Hampton's, Nantucket, and Maine, and tropical houses on Harbour Island, Antigua, and Abaco." -- publisher.