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Title: Use What You Have Decorating : Transform Your Home in One Hour With Ten Simple Design Principles -- Using the Space You Have, the Things You Like, the Budget You Choose by Lauri Ward ISBN: 0-399-52536-X Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 13 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (100 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Timeless advice--a real rarity for a decorating book!
Comment: Reading a decorating book is a little like reading a glossy fashion magazine. Often the spreads look beautiful, but you can't apply them to your own lifestyle because the goods are too expensive, too impractical, and too trendy. Everything will look dated in a few years, much of it isn't functional, yet costs a bundle.
This book transcends that problem by giving easy-to-follow advice about furniture placement. It's kind of like secular Feng Shui. The focus is on making a home that is comfortable,functions well, and looks balanced. Ward sums it all up in a list of principles that can be applied to ANY home, on any budget, all in a very short time frame. The before and after photos are very helpful, even in black and white. Ward is also a great teacher. She seems to really want her readers to start developing their own sense of proportion and flow. She doesn't just tell you what's wrong with each room, she adds clues to the 'before' photos to help you really examine the room and notice the crucial features that are throwing things off balance.
Aside from the general principles, she does include a few notions that might irk some readers (no art in the bedroom, place the pillows on your couch with the points up). But these are few and easy to ignore, and readers shouldn't let it detract from the main thrust of the book.
I checked this book out of the library, along with lots of the oversized, glossy, single-name decorator books, but I can tell even now that this is the only one I'm going to want to buy it eventually.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Most Useful Decorating Book I Own
Comment: I have dozens of decorating books. Most of them feature a particular style or document the decorating characteristics of a foreign country. These books are beautiful and fun to read. Unfortunately they have not been very helpful in decorating my own Manhattan shoebox apartment.
This book, however, is a noteable exception. The pictures are all black and white, and some of them are slightly fuzzy. But the text is very clear. I have been trying for at least a decade to get my furniture arranged correctly. It is now perfect, thanks to the very simple instructions in this book. And my art is hung correctly, my lighting is both functional and attractive, and I am comfortable in my own home. When people come to visit for the first time, they frequently say, "Wow! Who decorated this place?" All the credit goes to Lauri Ward, who has addressed a real need.
If you want to look at pretty pictures, this is not the book for you. But if you want to carefully analyse your rooms and figure out how to make them look wonderful using mainly items you already own, this is the book for you.
Rating: 2
Summary: Home owner in Illinois
Comment: I only gave this book two stars because I did not find it helpful for how I live. I own a lot of decorating book and was looking for one with furniture arrangement in it. I have a room with two focal points in it and this did not address that very well. There were some good ideas for other rooms and this is why I gave it two points.
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Title: Trade Secrets from Use What You Have Decorating by Lauri Ward ISBN: 0399148094 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 11 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Room and Furniture Layout Kit by Muncie Hendler ISBN: 0486242137 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 October, 1981 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: HGTV Before & After Decorating by HGTV, Amy Tincher-Durik, HGTV Books ISBN: 0696219093 Publisher: Meredith Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The New Decorating Book (Better Homes and Gardens(R)) by Better Homes and Gardens ISBN: 0696213818 Publisher: Meredith Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Design on a Dime by HGTV Books, Amy Tincher-Durik ISBN: 0696218496 Publisher: Meredith Books Pub. Date: 16 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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