Interior Design Quick Start Guide: A Guide to Interior Decorating - Home Interior Design Ideas & Interior Design Styles

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature.
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The answers to these common questions?and more?are found in this book, written for people who want to expand, learn, know, experience, and appreciate a higher level of aesthetics for their personal residential interior environment.

Since childhood, author George W. Moore IV has been sensitive to the power of beauty and the effects and fulfillment thereof. His has been an educational and spiritual journey to explore and experience the root sources, manifestations, and fulfillment of beauty, especially in the area of interior design. Now he puts his experience to work for you, sharing his insights on how to make the best design decisions for your needs and budget.

If you are looking for an insider?s guide to interior design and good taste, this handbook can help. Rather than quick fixes, top ten lists, or one-size-fits-all generic solutions, The Layperson?s Beginning Bible of Interior Design offers readers a humorous, educational, and philosophical guide to residential interior design.

It seeks to help people who know nothing of the subject, those who think they have all the answers, and those who simply want to expand their knowledge, perceptions, and appreciation of their interior environment aesthetics.

"the root sources, manifestations, and fulfillment of beauty, especially in the area of interior design"
Mensa Bulletin

"you provide education, observations,and thoughts that no residental designer has ever communicated before"
Sharran Parkinson, PhD
Virginia Comonwealth University

We get awestruck when we’re given a glimpse of celebrity homes in TV because of their posh designs and glamorous styles. But it cost thousands, even millions of dollars to get that sort of high-class home decoration.
Well, there’s a secret which every decorator to the stars don’t want to tell you. Any average household can really achieve Hollywood-style home decor minus the Beverly Hills budget. How can that be done? The look for less!
Chic-looking yet budget-wise decorating can be achieved using good-quality cheap furnishings and attractive homemade crafts that are all put together beautifully. All it takes is a great sense of style and an eye for elegance and fabulousness!

This book will give you ideas and decorating tips to help you decorate every room in your house using the:

·         Minimalist style                                                                    
·         Casual style                                                                                  
·         Formal style                                                                                  
·         Shabby chic style                                                                    
·         Paris apartment style                          
·         French country style
·         Tuscan style                                                                    
·         Traditional style                                                      
·         Tropical chic style                                                                    
·         Lodge style                                                                                  

Be inspired and get creative even with a limited budget to work with and turn your boring and lifeless interiors into luxuriously colorful and stylishly elegant living spaces just like your favorite celebrity home!

Home Decorating For Dummies, 2nd Edition is for all kinds of people in all kinds of decorating situations, including:

• First-time buyers or renters. You have a whole new place to decorate. Where do you start?
• Second- or third-time home buyers. Whether you’ve gone up or down in size, stayed in the same region or moved to a whole new one, you need to know how to make your old furniture work in a new setting, how to add furnishings, and how to make your style seem fresh.
• Newly blended families. He has furniture, she has furniture, they have furniture. Can it all work together harmoniously? Indeed!
• And anyone else who loves decorating. Don’t forget: Imagination counts.

Each part of Home Decorating For Dummies, deals with a broad area of decorating, and each chapter contains specific and detailed information. You'll discover tips on

• Basic planning – where to begin when you want to start decorating
• Creating surface interest – the effects of color, pattern, and texture, and the problems created by too much or too little of them
• Creating backgrounds – what you need to know about the special decorating requirements of your walls
• Tackling tough rooms – how to effectively decorate rooms that have special functional requirements
• Accessorizing with art and other stuff – adding the final flourishes to every space in your place