Waverly Inspirations: Your Guide to Personal Style [Hardcover]

Waverly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1999

Here's the premiere book from Waverly(r), America's number one name in stylish, readily available home-decorating products. Beautiful photography and practical decorating advice capitalizes on Waverly's expertise as a home-decorating authority and put fresh yet classic style within easy reach. Helps readers find their own decorating style through fun-to-take quizzes. Shows how to give rooms personality with color, pattern, and accessories. Inspiring and easy-to-use lessons on creating color schemes and choosing and mixing patterns to reflect personal style. Adaptable room-by-room ideas for solving decorating problems, enhancing space, arranging furniture, and displaying accessories. Glossary of upholstery, drapery, and fabric terms plus guidelines on choosing and using fabrics. 300 full-color photographs.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

These three books are beautifully illustrated with photographs of contemporary interiors. In the Waverly book four stylesAEnglish country, clubby elegant, lighthearted and eclectic, and high-style ColonialAare shown for living rooms, bedrooms, and dinning rooms, all sporting Waverly fabrics and wallpaper. The advantage of this book is the availability of Waverly products so that one can achieve exactly the look depicted. The book from Traditional Home focuses on designers who style a home in the classic look favored by the magazine. Like the Waverly book, this title gives do-it-yourself projects at the end. Rennicke's book takes a look at how the American Colonial style has been interpreted today. Illustrated with pictures of homes in the South, the Midwest, and New England, this book gives an overview of its interpretation of classic American style and then focuses on the use of color, fabric, and the like to explain and depict how to achieve this decorating style. Recommended particularly for its focus on American design.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Meredith Books (September 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0696208644
• ISBN-13: 978-0696208645
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 9.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,223,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A rare and much appreciated treat, March 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Waverly Inspirations: Your Guide to Personal Style (Hardcover)

Other books in this category seem to take a sewing project approach. I never plan to sew anything, so that's not what I wanted. I'm glad I happened on this book, because it's about decorating with fabrics and wall coverings, not simply stitching up a pillow or slipcovers. Now I can plan my decorating scheme and leave the sewing to my seamstress.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love decorating with wallpaper? Buy this book., January 5, 2000

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Design Fan! (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waverly Inspirations: Your Guide to Personal Style (Hardcover)

I love color, pattern, and wallpaper. (Have you ever tried to find a book that shows rooms decorated with wallpaper and tells you how to decorate with them? They don't exist.) Until I saw this book (by accident at the book store), I could not find a book that gave me this much information on how to decorate the way I like to. (I like to start a project at the wallpaper store). This is a breath of fresh air.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely excellent!, May 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Waverly Inspirations: Your Guide to Personal Style (Hardcover)

The best and most helpful book--to date--on the subject of decorating; how to determine your personal style; how to discover your color preferences, etc. Exceptional!