Customer Reviews

The Ultimate Decorating Book: Over 1,000 Decorating Ideas For All The Rooms In Your Home

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I love to decorate, but as you probably know most decorating books cover just one subject, one room, or one style of decorating. This book truly covers everything and anything. It covers the hows, the whys, the color theory, and presents many pictures of beautiful rooms. Whenever I'm stumped for what to do in a room, I pick up this book and leaf through it. I have not been let down even once. There's always an idea I can adapt to whatever I'm looking for at that particular moment. I would highly recommend this book. It's a bit big, and might seem overwhelming to some, but don't try to read it all in one day. Leaf through it gingerly, or fast forward to a particular room you are wanting to work in. You will be inspired to try somethings, but always adapt them to what you would enjoy in your own home. In the summer months, my husband and I will be re-doing our 100 year old kitchen, and this book has already given me plenty of ideas to work with. Pick this book up, before all others. You can always narrow your decorating focus as you go on, and buy books on that focus. This book gives you everything and more.

This book contains many colorfull pages of great ideas that are easy for the decorating beginner to follow. This book gives you simple solutions to jazz up you current rooms and offers more detailed solutions for you to create with many different products. I loved this book from cover to cover.

I am young, and just recently married. We just bought our first home and I had no idea where to begin. I got this book as a gift and I have loved everything about it. It has trully helped me decorate my home into something that I am proud of. I love that it gives an overview of lots of things like curtains, floors, painting techniques, and color. If you are decorating your home for the first time, or you just need some ideas to make some updates I highly recommend this book.

Pluses:
None as far as I can see.

Minuses:
This book tries to cover so many topics, it can only give you a little bit of info on each. I could forgive the lack of substantive information, if the pictures made up for it, but they don't. They are very boring and most seem outdated. In trying to appeal to the broadest range of people, the book misses the ideosyncracies of different interior decoration styles.

Recommendation:
I would skip this book. There are so many more interior decoration books that are so much better. Better Homes and Gardens and House Beautiful books are usually pretty good. Also, the Architecture and Design Library books are good sources for differnt styles.