House Beautiful Design & Decorate: Living & Dining Rooms: Creating Beautiful Rooms from Start to Finish

by Tessa Evelegh

They’re the rooms where you relax, where family and friends gather, where most of home life gets lived: the living and dining rooms. Who better than the experts at House Beautiful to show how to make these spaces attractive, inviting, and fresh? Divided into two sections, this stunning guide features hundreds of lavish, inspirational images, enhanced with checklists and explanatory sidebars. “Design” covers everything from planning to selecting the permanent elements of the interior: this is the time for thinking and research, for making crucial long-term decisions about the layout, lighting and electricity, flooring, storage space, and furniture. “Decorate” is devoted to the look, focusing on color, wall finishes, window treatments, and those small but important touches that make a house a beautiful home. 

Genres: Nonfiction

160 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2007

About the author

Tessa Evelegh is a writer and stylist specializing in stitchery of all kinds, crafts, interiors and gardens, with more than 30 titles to her name. Prior to going freelance, she spent eight years at Family Circle magazine, overseeing the dressmaking, interiors and fashion departments. Her work has been published in the Daily Telegraph, Homes and Gardens, Ideal Home and Woman and Home. An enthusiastic dressmaker since the age of five, when she ‘cut her teeth’ on dolls’ clothes, she still makes and customizes clothes, home furnishings and upholstery. Tessa lives in South London and has two (almost) grown-up daughters who also love to ‘make their own’.

- excerpted from http://jacquismallpub.com/tessa-evelegh

Reviews

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars

[Serina · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is true when says creating beautiful rooms from Start to Finish! It takes a moment and then you start to see how you can use the styles personally. Pretty good.