Decorating for Good: A Step-by-Step Guide to Rearranging What You Already Own - Softcover

Talbott, Carole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0609803719 ISBN 13: 9780609803714

Publisher: Clarkson Potter, 1999

Synopsis

Explains how to maximize any room's potential and offers advice on creating floor charts, selecting fabrics, and hanging art

About this title

About the Author

Carole Talbott is the founder and President of Visual Coordinations,(r) Inc. She has spent the past fifteen years traveling across the country training others in her Visual Coordinations(r) technique. As Patricia Dane Rogers of the Washington Post stated, "The art of room re-arrangement...has been around for a while...but it took off when Carole Talbott devised a formula." Visual Coordinations(r) is being heralded as the most popular quick-fix interior design and decorating technique in North America, including Canada, Australia and England. Her art of placement technique is quite simply VISUAL COORDINATION within an interior space. Using Carole's specific guidelines, anyone can have a balanced and beautiful home. The secret to her formula is the precise alignment of the interior pieces with the architectural features and shapes... a creative science that secures the placement of existing pieces and defines the size, shape and theme of additional purchases. It is the first and only design technique based on an exact formula - unparalleled in the home decoration field. Carole was an invited speaker at the April and October 1997 Furniture Markets in High Point, North Carolina and will be returning October 18, 1999. Her technique has won critical acclaim throughout the Interior Design Industry. She has demonstrated her technique on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Our Home, Lifetime, Discovery including countless appearances across the U.S. Her "Design Patrol" segment appears weekly on the South Florida NBC affiliate WPTV. She is also the co-host of the "Decorating Made Easy" series on HGTV, currently airing in South Florida. The

Washington Post,

Newsday,

Atlanta

Journal Constitution, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News, Palm Beach Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Detroit Free Press, Home Magazine, U.S. News and World Report and many other publications have featured her formula as well.

From the Back Cover

DECORATING FOR GOOD is the wonderfully simple and almost foolproof technique by Carole Talbott for creating comfortable and beautiful homes - a clear, concise, step-by-step system requiring only two things: a few hours of your time and everything you already own!

Tailored to work in any home, DECORATING FOR GOOD teaches you how to view your rooms and furnishings as pieces of a puzzle you can easily put together. Organized clearly and simply, it outlines the major room shapes and wall shapes found in any home, and then provides detailed instructions showing you where and how to place your furnishings to best effect. Nearly one hundred line drawings help you along the way, bringing an end to those awkward spaces. And by using what you already own, your home will truly reflect who you are.

DECORATING FOR GOOD works even outside the home, where its simple techniques can be applied to patios and decks, as well as landscaping, Simple, clear, and winningly practical, DECORATING FOR GOOD will finally turn your home into the comfortable, beautiful, welcoming place it was meant to be.

Carole Talbott is the designer and developer of the Visual Coordinations concept, technique, and products. She travels extensively, giving lectures and training designers and homeowners everywhere. She lives in Florida.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarkson Potter
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0609803719
• ISBN 13: 9780609803714
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Consentino Cira
• Number of pages: 160