The Step-By-Step Home Decorating Book is an up-to-date expanded edition of Nicholas Barnard's best-selling Complete Home Decorator. It is a comtemporary practical guide to both hard surface decorating - painting wallpapering tiling - and soft furnishings from making curtains blinds and cushions to patchwork and quilting. Everything Illustrated Beautiful room interiors inspire you with ideas for your home and colour photographs set out the choice of materials and useful equipment available. Over 200 pages of step-by-step photographs explain every decorating technique. Soft furnishings In the first part of the book basic sewing know-how - hand-stitching making seams attaching fastenings and applying trimmings - are all demonstrated. Chapter by chapter instructions are given for making curtains blinds bed furnishings cushions and other soft furnishing accessories. Hard Decorating Painting wall-papering tiling flooring shelving and lighting are covered in the second part of the book. Galleries of photographs help you choose a style you like and numerous step-by-step sequences explain how to complete every project successfully. With its detailed coverage and extensive use of colour photographs the Step-by-Step Home Decorating Book is set to become the essential practical manual for today's enthusiastic home-maker.
- ISBN10 075130865X
- ISBN13 9780751308655
- Publish Date 4 May 2000 (first published 8 September 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 July 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Dorling Kindersley Ltd
- Imprint DK
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English