The Complete Home Decorator

by Stewart Walton, Sally Walton

This comprehensive guide to decorating shows how to enhance every aspect of your interiors. More than 200 self-contained projects are divided according to different types of room, and step-by-step instructions are accompanied by photographs.'

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

512 pages, Hardcover

First published January 3, 1995

Reviews

[Annabelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

Corrugated headboards and lamps. Robot chairs. Marker-colored light bulbs. This isn't a book geared toward home decorating, it's a hefty craft book aimed at preschool and elementary kids.

[يوسف عبداللطيف · Rating 4 out of 5]

Look, The Complete Home Decorator is messy, loud, and kind of exhausting, and I couldn't put it down. Stewart Walton writes like someone typing a voice memo at 2 a.m., all run-ons and confessions, and the scene where the narrator crashes a wedding she wasn't invited to had me wincing and grinning at the same time. By the end the voice wore me out a little. For readers who like chaos with a heartbeat. Skip it if you prefer clean, polished prose.

[May Ling · Rating 3 out of 5]

Creative. It was fun to look at the illustrations and explanations for ideas around my own home.

[زاهي رستم · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some if this book's projects are really easy to DIY. and I will do some of them in my home. Its nice to read it.

[Janna Oakfellow-Pushee · Rating 2 out of 5]

The tips definitely show their age/date, and in the world of Pinterest and what not, this extremely heavy hard-cover book isn't really worth the shelf-space anymore.

That said, for someone who is 100% D-i-y and is starting out in their own space, a few of the ideas aren't bad (a lot of glue and rope and re-purposing blankets), but again, just save paper and find the ideas online.