- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Windsor Oak Publishing (Jan 1 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0966822706
- ISBN-13: 978-0966822700
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 18 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 503 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,768,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
Both of these books take a helpful approach to interior decorating. Babylon, designer of home decorating patterns for McCall's, gives tips for every room of the house. Instructions for projects referenced within the text are all contained at the end of the book. Linsley (First Home, LJ 5/15/98) continues with her style of sparsely illustrated advice, this time on how to decorate in a luxurious style within a budget. Both books give instructions on various projects such as painting effects and sewing soft furnishings that are covered better in such books as Jocasta Innes's Applied Artistry (LJ 1/96) or Complete Book of Soft Furnishings (reviewed below). However, the advice in both will give an amateur decorator hundreds of ideas.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Whether making a few quick changes in a single room or redecorating your whole house, More Splash Than Cash Decorating Ideas will give you the fresh ideas plus the confidence you need to get the look you've dreamed of. Find over 1200 easy, practical, and low-cost ideas for floors, ceilings, stairways, and everything in between. Learn the basics of decorating and how to choose colors. Go room-by-room to explore achievable, affordable ideas. Delight your children with rooms designed just for them. Turn discarded furniture into decorating sensations. Dress up furniture, windows, and walls with fabric- even if you can't sew a stitch. Uncover hidden decorating treasures in unusual places.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Unimpressive,
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This review is from: More Splash Than Cash Decorating Ideas: Over 1200 Tips, Tricks, Techniques and Ideas to Decorate your Home (Paperback)
This book is simply a list of ideas, most of them extremely basic, like paint the ceiling a light color to make the walls seem taller, or extremely cheesy and cheap, like covering furniture or a lampshade in wallpaper borders. Innovative ideas like using green plants to make a room feel airy or repeating a color throughout a room to pull it together are plentiful. Many of the ideas are repepeated in different chapters, only phrased differently. I read a few chapters and plan on returning it to exchange for something more unique.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Buying my own copy,
This review is from: More Splash Than Cash Decorating Ideas: Over 1200 Tips, Tricks, Techniques and Ideas to Decorate your Home (Paperback)
What can I say - I work in a library that owns this book, so I have easy access to it and many other decorating books. But after reading this book excitedly, in one sitting, I feel compelled to buy my own copy. There are so many cute, quick, easy and inexpensive ideas here. Most of the ideas are so simple they really can be described in just a paragraph or two. Thankfully that's what the author does, rather than stretching out instructions to fill up space!
5.0 out of 5 stars
just the lift I needed,
By A Customer
This review is from: More Splash Than Cash Decorating Ideas: Over 1200 Tips, Tricks, Techniques and Ideas to Decorate your Home (Paperback)
I happened to see Donna Babylon on HGTV one day -- and I loved her easy-going style of presenting information. She didn't talk down to the audience, or act like she had all the answers. And reading her book is just like having a conversation with her. It was exactly the lift I needed to inspire me to redecorate my dull white-walls-leftover-shag-carpet house....right now, I'm sitting in my newly remodeled den (which used to be a small bedroom) -- and after I took up the horrible smelly carpeting -- I PAINTED THE PLYWOOD floor -- and everybody just raves about it!! Donna Babylon ROCKS!!!
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