Room-by-room details for living areas, dining spaces, kitchens, bedrooms, baths, workstations, and more.
Ideas to arrange furniture, manage clutter, create illusion, convert for several purposes, and use color, pattern and texture effectively.
Whole-house tours showcase decorating principals that work in small spaces.
Shows how color palettes unify spaces throughout a house.
Includes a room arranging kit.
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55 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not Useful,
By Kate Smart "Private" (Private) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Decorating Small Spaces: Live Large in Any Space (Better Homes & Gardens) (Paperback)
I am giving this book only one star as I expected more from Better Homes & Gardens; their books are consistently excellent, but this one is a stinker.If you pick up a book about cats, it should feature cats. But when it comes to small spaces, it seems any home will do even if it's 3000 square feet. "Small spaces" is obvious a relative concept, depending on what you're used to. To me, a small space is any home which has a decided lack of closets, or storage areas. Bedrooms are small and difficult to make functional; children have no basement to play in, the kitchen has a puny eating area, etc. There wasn't a single picture in this book which impressed or inspired me. To show readers pictures of homes which appear large, airy, and identical to any home found in any design magazine, is just not useful at all. I highly recommend Taunton Press' Storage Idea Book - it is inspirational and jam packed with great visuals.
38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best of 8 decor books bought,
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This review is from: Decorating Small Spaces: Live Large in Any Space (Better Homes & Gardens) (Paperback)
I ranked seven "decorating small spaces" books, and reviewed and ranked them. That was before I found this book, which is the best of the lot. Useable ideas not only for every room but for every nook and cranny...excellent photos...helpful illustrations...this book has it all.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book to guide you into a wonderful home!,
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This review is from: Decorating Small Spaces: Live Large in Any Space (Better Homes & Gardens) (Paperback)
This book is a GREAT tool for making your house a home. It's loaded with tips and basic principles that will improve any room. Decorating Small Spaces teaches its reader the "rules" and then actually shows how to break them with style. For instance deep colors on the wall of a small room might actually make it seem larger because the walls appear to recede.
Starting with basic principles-color, furniture placement, storage, etc-the book then goes room-by-room showing how those principles can work. There are pictures to exemplify these principles on almost every page. This book won't show you how to organize a kitchen drawer or books on a shelf, but it will show you how to arrange everything in a room to make the room more spacious. I highly recommend this book. It has helped me transform my awkward small condo into a beautiful & livable home.
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