Home Care

All the popular and new decorative paint looks made simple.

50 Ways to Paint a Wall is a straightforward guide to creating the stylish paint effects constantly featured on home shows and in shelter magazines. The paint techniques-four dozen plus two-include special applications, geometric designs, faux finishes, and wall embellishments. The techniques and color choices are always on trend, including the contemporary approaches to perennial favorites like sponging and stencils. With fifty choices, which technique is best for the room? Decorator tips will help make the big decision. For each technique, there is a big color swatch of the finished wall, then the best method is explained and photographed step-by-step. With this bargain-priced guide and a can of paint, anyone can transform a room fifty ways.

Everything your need to create the perfect plan for safe, stylish basement that matches your needs, interests and budget. Features: Readers can assess their basement's potential and how to plan and budget for major remodelling or finishing work; Helps homeowners to solve common layout problems and offers several floor plans that will meet their specific needs; Includes a special section on how to evaluate and solve safety and health concerns that may have kept consumers from undertaking a basement project; Includes a user-friendly layout with numerous pullouts and sidebars accompany more than 115 pictures and illustrations.

The bedroom is probably the most personal and regularly decorated room of the house. In this book the author focuses on the importance of selecting colours and furnishings to achieve different looks and moods that should suit all styles and tastes. Practical decorating tips, paint effects and window treatments are included as well as the all-important details such as bed drapes and canopies, bedlinen, storage and lighting. The book also presents ingenious ideas for dealing with awkwardly-shaped and small bedrooms and unusual storage solutions.