Weekend Decorating Projects (Better Homes and Gardens(R))

From painting furniture to creating privacy windows, this detailed book provides step-by-step instructions and helpful hints for more than fifty home decorating projects, accompanied by full-color photographs and a handy "Decorator's Tool Kit" list. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Stitch, paint, and glue your way to terrific mini makeovers for any room, with a minimum of time and money. These 86 projects offer great easy ways to bestow color and creativity on walls, windows, floors, furniture, and accessories, with simple sewing, stenciling, decoupaging, and glue-on trimming methods. Chairs and ottomans get a new lease on life with slipcovers; dressers, sideboards, and other wood pieces are crackle-finished, plaid-painted, or lace-stenciled; bedrooms and baths receive room-transforming effects with canopies, swags, and other basic but beautiful fabric treatments; screens, pillows, lampshades, frames, and other attractive accessories add further nifty detail. Good directions and nice color photos make it all pretty simple--and pretty to look at. --Amy Handy