Weve all been thereyour childs room needs something, but you cant seem to find the time or funds for a complete re-do. Reinvent Your Kids Rooms, one of two books in a new Sunset series, is full of real-world decorating ideas and step-by-step instructions that will quickly and easily transform your childs room. There are 70 projects that can be done in a day, a weekend, or during a remodel. Practical highlights include selecting color palettes and fabrics, organizing clutter with creative storage projects, and making simple changes to existing furniture and fixtures that yield big design payoffs.
Christine E. Barnes is an author, teacher, and contemporary quilter in love with color. Degrees in design and journalism segued into a writing career that has produced more than a dozen decorating, quilting, remodeling, and soft furnishings books. Her latest book, The Quilter's Color Club, presents a simple, can-do approach to using color in quilts, whether the reader is part of a mini-group, a quilting class, or working solo. Three color concepts--value, temperature, and intensity--are key to her strategy and make special effects like transparency and luminosity doable, even for beginners. No matter what their experience, Christine likes to tell students and readers that success with color is more about practice than talent!
Christine's work has been published in American Quilter, Threads, Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, For The Love of Quilting, and Fabrications, a British quilting magazine. She lives in Northern California's Gold Country. You can see her work at christinebarnes.com
