How to’s for changes that provide the most impact—painting furniture, dressing up windows, and adding do-it-yourself accessories.

Ideas for simple, yet stylish, slipcovers for occasional chairs.

Complete instructions for creating canopies, privacy windows, painted floor cloths, and folding screens

"Start with Readymades" throughout the book show how to take a purchased product—plain cotton rugs, curtains, lamp shades—and add embellishments that make it unique.

Guidelines for turning unexpected objects into lamp bases to make your own lamps.

"Decorator’s Tool Kit" shows and describes basic items every do-it-yourselfer should have on hand.

Amazon.com Review
Stitch, paint, and glue your way to terrific mini makeovers for any room, with a minimum of time and money. These 86 projects offer great easy ways to bestow color and creativity on walls, windows, floors, furniture, and accessories, with simple sewing, stenciling, decoupaging, and glue-on trimming methods. Chairs and ottomans get a new lease on life with slipcovers; dressers, sideboards, and other wood pieces are crackle-finished, plaid-painted, or lace-stenciled; bedrooms and baths receive room-transforming effects with canopies, swags, and other basic but beautiful fabric treatments; screens, pillows, lampshades, frames, and other attractive accessories add further nifty detail. Good directions and nice color photos make it all pretty simple--and pretty to look at. --Amy Handy