The Ultimate Home Style Guide

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f you long to saturate your flat with the colours and textures of a Moroccan bazaar, or dine under a glittering chandelier in a fantasy Baroque-style dining room, now is your chance, as never before has there been such breadth of choice or freedom from convention in house decoration.
In The Ultimate Home Style Guide, stylish living ranges from medieval to contemporary and from Japanese minimalism to Mexican exuberance - 25 themes from which to discover a thousand possibilities, all recreated within a realistic framework of modern living.
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Every period of history and every part of the world has its own distinctive qualities, and Katherine Sorrell begins each style with a comprehensive digest of how history, geography and lifestyle shape the ways in which people enhance their homes. She then explores in practical terms how every aspect of decoration - walls and floors, use of lighting and colour, soft furnishings, furniture and accessories - can evoke the spirit of an age or... Tovább

Fülszöveg

f you long to saturate your flat with the colours and textures of a Moroccan bazaar, or dine under a glittering chandelier in a fantasy Baroque-style dining room, now is your chance, as never before has there been such breadth of choice or freedom from convention in house decoration.
In The Ultimate Home Style Guide, stylish living ranges from medieval to contemporary and from Japanese minimalism to Mexican exuberance - 25 themes from which to discover a thousand possibilities, all recreated within a realistic framework of modern living.
i1
Every period of history and every part of the world has its own distinctive qualities, and Katherine Sorrell begins each style with a comprehensive digest of how history, geography and lifestyle shape the ways in which people enhance their homes. She then explores in practical terms how every aspect of decoration - walls and floors, use of lighting and colour, soft furnishings, furniture and accessories - can evoke the spirit of an age or location.
Each chapter is completed by an annotated photograph highlighting elements that epitomize a particular style. Over 200 stunning photographs, fabric suggestions and colour guides show how sumptuous Tudor or the fun of the Fifties, the opalescent airiness of Scandinavia or the mystique of the Orient, can all be achieved.
Invaluable as a guide to redecorating a period home in sympathetic style, The Ultimate Home Style Guide is also inspirational if you are faced with a room totally lacking in character. For a room without features is also a room without restrictions: it could become a homage to medieval Gothic, a groovy Sixties pad, a chic Parisian appartement or a Caribbean hideaway, where clashing colour has no meaning and the sun always shines. Vissza