Decorating Ideas Under $100 (Better Homes & Gardens) [Paperback]

Better Homes and Gardens (Author)

Book Description

Series: Better Homes & Gardens | Publication Date: January 1, 2003

Great style does not require an over-the-top budget. With a little ingenuity, basic skills, and use of supplies from crafts and home improvement stores, you can achieve custom looks at bargain prices. Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Ideas Under $100 offers a wealth of information—101 creative projects with complete materials lists and detailed step-by-step instructions. Inspiring photographs illustrate how finished projects fit into room settings. The first chapter focuses on walls, floors, and other surfaces punched up with paint finishes, wallpaper, stock molding, stenciling, stamping, and decoupage. Another chapter reveals the secrets of dressing up furniture, even garage sale finds, with slipcovers, upholstery, and trim. Freshening up the bed and bath is a breeze with color, unusual headboards, painted linens, and ribbon-trimmed towels. The second half of Decorating Ideas Under $100 delves into details that make a difference, from one-of-a-kind pillows and lampshades to window treatments that give plain panels a lot of personality. Style also goes outdoors with projects for perking up patios and decks.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens; 1 edition (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0696215934
• ISBN-13: 978-0696215933
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,151,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Under $100 and worth a million, August 8, 2003

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Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Decorating Ideas Under $100 (Better Homes & Gardens) (Paperback)

This is a really excellent do-it-yourself decorating book. Here are some of the projects I found appealing:

1. A faux china hutch for a bare kitchen wall. Using moldings from the lumber yard, paint and wallpaper, you can create a hutch-like decoration for the wall and put decorative plates or platters on it, held by plate rails. The wallpaper gives the effect of depth.

2. Curtains with a sheer top and panel below. Solves the problem of how to curtain a window with a set of window panes above (like a transom.)

3. A swag made with Roman Shade tape to gather it. The designer employs two fabrics and some piping to give the swag some detail and interest.

4. A quilt rack on the wall, using a curtain rod and two finials.

5. A headboard made of two Euro square pillows and two flanged shams, hanging on a section of curtain rod capped with finials.

6. Chair covers with ties, to cover straight-backed chairs or folding chairs.

There are a lot more ideas in here, for inside and even the garden. All are do-able with a sewing machine and average sewing skill, and average carpentry skills like nailing, cutting, painting. If you have no table saw to rip 1x6 poplar to 1x4, you can always have the lumberyard do this and other cuts for you.

A very excellent book with lots and lots of useful ideas. Highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, creative ideas, May 18, 2006

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KDiNobile "Style With Comfort" (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Decorating Ideas Under $100 (Better Homes & Gardens) (Paperback)

I love books that offer decorating ideas for those on a budget. Even if I don't follow the projects and suggestions exactly, I usually use them as a springboard for other ideas. Many of the projects and ideas in this book I will definitely try. Great resource.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Would not recommend, July 5, 2007

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Lauren N. Hall "Lauren" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Decorating Ideas Under $100 (Better Homes & Gardens) (Paperback)

I was very disappointed in this book. I love decorating books for home decorating projects. There is not one thing in this book I would use to decorate. They show a lot of painting with stencils and other projects that I would never put in my house. Im glad I bought this used.