Starting Out With Style: Design Solutions for Your New Home - Softcover

Monica Millward Weeks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1586850970 ISBN 13: 9781586850975

Publisher: Gibbs Smith, 2001

Synopsis

You’ve plunked down the cash, signed the papers, and the key is in your hand—you’ve finally moved into a place of your very own. Maybe you have a budget to splurge on new furnishings, or you might have to make the most of what you already have. You’ve got a few ideas, but how do you know where to start? Enter Starting Out with Style—a guide to decorating your house from scratch. Within its pages you’ll find no-nonsense advice on evaluating your tastes, personality, and lifestyle to create a home that fits you, including information about different styles and color schemes. We’ll walk you through each room, outline decorating options and detail choices for furnishings, flooring, lighting, windows, and walls throughout the home.

For first-time homeowners or renters, practical solutions will help you deal with budget limitations, living in small spaces, personalizing your space, and coping with pesky landlord restrictions, as well as bone up on your thrift-store and flea-market shopping skills. Whatever your tastes, Starting Out with Style will inspire you to create a pad with personality.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Welcome to Starting Out with Style--a beginner's guide to decorating your house or apartment.

From the Inside Flap

You've plunked down the cash, signed the papers, and the key is in your hand--you've finally moved into a place of your very own. If you're lucky, you might have a futon and some hand-me-down furniture. If you're less lucky, you might be thinking up ways to decorate with cardboard boxes! Maybe you have a budget to splurge on new furnishings, or you might have to make the most of what you already have. Whatever your circumstances, you want a place that says, "This is my house . . . not my mom's, not Martha Stewart's, but mine!" You've got a few ideas, but how do you know where to start?

Enter Starting Out with Style--a guide to decorating your house from scratch. Within these pages you'll find no-nonsense advice on evaluating your tastes and lifestyle to create a home that fits you, including information about different styles and color schemes. We'll walk you through each room, outline decorating options and detail choices for furnishings, flooring, lighting, windows, and walls throughout the home. Starting Out with Style includes a variety of beautiful room settings from companies like Pottery Barn, Room & Board, Bombay Company, and Crate & Barrel.

For first-time homeowners or renters, practical solutions will help you deal with budget limitations, living in small spaces, personalizing your space, and coping with pesky landlord restrictions, as well as bone up on your thrift-store and flea-market shopping skills. The extensive resource guide will lead you to a wide variety of shopping destinations, including many Internet resources. Whatever your tastes, Starting Out with Style will inspire you to create a pade with personality.

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What's my style?

Okay, so you know what you like, or at least you know it when you see it. Maybe you've been living with hand-me-downs from Mom and Dad for a few years, and now you're ready to furnish your place in the style you want. But how do you begin transforming you tastes into a real, living style for your home? With all of the styles out there, it can be confusing to know where to start. These explanations of various styles, provided by interior designers from Kozyhome, will help you begin to dissect the wide world of style and help you figure out what your tastes are.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1586850970
• ISBN 13: 9781586850975
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156