A Home for all Seasons

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aHome> all Seasons offers a broad palette
of decorating Ideas for anyone who has ever looked at someone's home and said, "Hey! Why didn't I think of that?" At some point in oui- lives, we all face the walls in our own home and pose the Inevitable decorating questions: "Where do I start? What If I make a mistake?" Because our homes mean the world to us, we take great pride in them. And with pride comes uncertainty as we struggle to "make things right," to find the decorating idiom that best suits our personalities and our lifestyles.
There is no one answer to the question of how to decorate, but through color, pattern, print, and texture a personal sense of style is composed, and with it the making of a house into a home. In the pages of A Home for All Seasons, coauthors Meg and Steven Roberts, principals at the Echo Design Group, based in New York, take readers on a... Tovább

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aHome> all Seasons offers a broad palette
of decorating Ideas for anyone who has ever looked at someone's home and said, "Hey! Why didn't I think of that?" At some point in oui- lives, we all face the walls in our own home and pose the Inevitable decorating questions: "Where do I start? What If I make a mistake?" Because our homes mean the world to us, we take great pride in them. And with pride comes uncertainty as we struggle to "make things right," to find the decorating idiom that best suits our personalities and our lifestyles.
There is no one answer to the question of how to decorate, but through color, pattern, print, and texture a personal sense of style is composed, and with it the making of a house into a home. In the pages of A Home for All Seasons, coauthors Meg and Steven Roberts, principals at the Echo Design Group, based in New York, take readers on a sumptuous tour of dozens of interior and outdoor spaces that reflect the moods of the seasons, showing how they look at all times of the year. Organized into spring, summer, fall, and winter, with a special section on holidays, every imaginable room is shown—from living rooms to sun rooms—in 100 glorious color photographs made specially for this book. The delightful text, by writer Brenda Cullerton, offers common sense with wit and imagination. As she writes, "Decorating is a form of thinking, even dreaming out loud."
Just as our gardens or our clothes reveal the moments of the seasons and time, so do our homes, whether they be shelters for quietude or for socializing. Style is of course intensely personal: following instinct and impulse are a way of showing who we are, and what we care about. So, too, are our choices of color schemes, fabrics, window treatments, and wall coverings. Transforming a den into a picture gallery and choosing for the walls a navy plaid instead of the usual white; moving a couch from indoors to the patio, draping it with a French floral tablecloth, and enjoying breakfast al fresco; painting each of the risers on a staircase a different color— this is where the real joy of discovery lies.
In A Home for All Seasons, Meg and Steven Roberts have chosen rooms that real people live in and love. The result is a stunning album of home design, with scores of ideas for budgets large or small, lifestyles urbane or country, tastes fancy or carefree.
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