Better Homes and Gardens Easy Decorating Makeovers

by Better Homes and Gardens

Explaining how to transform one's living space with a variety of simple and creative projects, this helpful handbook offers room-by-room suggestions on how to create comfortable, welcoming spaces, featuring before-and-after photographs, detailed instructions, and tips on decorating principles, using space effectively, establishing a focal point, and more. 40,000 first printing.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 15, 2003

About the author

Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation. It was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.

Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.

Reviews

[Carmen]

An informative explanation of how and why to add or subtract things in a room to make it more appealing. Full of before and after pictures, it explains concepts such as negative space, bringing the eye upwards and balance.

[Su Gibbs]

Lots of good ideas to re-do with the things you already have at home.

[Jessica]

Lots of great ideas on how to rearrange what you already have. How to do some projects yourself with very little time investment. How to look at your room in a new way, and figure out the purpose you want.

[Jenny]

This book is full of little tips and tricks for decorating. I appreciated that most of them focus on using what you already have.