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Books : Home & Garden : Expert Advice : Katrin Cargill
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With its emphasis on light-infused interiors and fresh painted surfaces, Swedish interior design is easy to live with, traditional and yet contemporary in its appeal. Katrin Cargill distils the chief characteristics of a look that embraces the cool colo rs and modest proportions of Gustavian interiors and the unpretentious charm of country nostalgia. Five practical chapters – The Essence of Swedish Style, Color and Paint, Furniture, Fabric and Accessories – show how you can adapt and recreate this style in your own home. The photographs, many of little-known Swedish interiors, feature rooms where the look has been successfully recreated and some of the period houses that provide the inspiration.
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A lively informative text accompanied by more than 200 full-color photos gives readers a tour of the most important and integral aspects of Swedish interior design. Cargill provides practical information and step-by-step instructions in four areas--color schemes and paint effects, furniture, textiles, and accessories.
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An illustrated how-to reference.
There are five key areas of the home where soft furnishings can make a big difference: bath, bedroom, kitchen, dining and living room. Best of all, soft furnishings can be easily created by anyone with a sewing machine -- even beginners.
Simple Soft Furnishings covers the core sewing items needed to transform any home into a fashionable and welcome environment. With an irresistible collection of projects, ranging from simple cushions to elegant curtains and sumptuous bedding, these designs are a mix of timeless classics and current trends with appeal for all ages.
Each project will bring style to any room at an affordable cost. The focus is on quick and easy ideas that can be readily made in a weekend. This beautifully presented book features:
- Fifty original soft furnishing designs for the home
- Projects for cushions, curtains and blinds, seating, bedding and table linens
- Simplified techniques for the beginner sewer
- Illustrated step-by-step instructions
- Advice for alternative fabrics, fastenings, trimming, patterns and color schemes
- List of resources and suppliers
- Tips for adding special touches to customize each project.
Simple Soft Furnishings is an inspiring and practical guide to creating fashionable home furnishings.
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Fabulous pillows in coordinating and contrasting fabrics are the finishing touch that pulls together a design scheme and they are in an inexpensive way to introduce punch and style to a room. Includes suggestions for using borders, trims, and decorative edgings to make pillows distinctive, plus pointers on choosing linings and fillings and caring for pillows. 100 color photos. 100 illustrations.
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Let soft-furnishing guru Katrin Cargill take the mystery out of making curtains and learn to make simple, stylish window treatments for every room in your home. Select from over 80 ideas for beautiful window dressings designed to suit all levels of sewing ability, while showcasing Katrin's special talent for using fabrics in surprisingly innovative ways. Chapters include Use of Fabrics, Headings, Valances, and Edgings. See the full effect of the finished curtains in James Merrell's stylish and informative colour photographs.
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Add style and panache to your home with Katrin Cargill's 100 stunning new pillow ideas. Whatever your decor, this practical workbook will inspire you to create beautiful pillows for beds, chairs, and sofas in a wide variety of stunning fabrics. Learn everything you need to know, including Shapes, Use of Fabrics, Borders and Edgings, Trimmings and Fastenings, and Surface Decoration - all captured in James Merrell's stylish and instructive photographs.
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Lampshades covers the entire gamut of shades, from hanging fixtures and sconces to small bedside table lamps and everything in between. Katrin Cargill explains how to salvage or create a frame, and then explores all the exciting possibilities for lampshade materials, offering numerous variations on each of 20 key styles. 100 color photos. 100 illustrations.
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This new inspirational and absolutely essential book on dressing windows offers practical solutions to common problems or questions, with original designs for curtains, shades, and panels for every type of window. Katrin Cargill combines her exceptional instinct for color, pattern, and fabric with her unrivaled experience with assorted techniques to create an incredible array of window dressing options, from toile-lined curtains trimmed with black satin cording, to a soft-pleated shade made from velvet-edged linen, to a simple swag of raw silk. A complete reference guide explains all the related techniques and terms.
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Part of the Ryland Peters and Small collection of books devoted to the pleasures of life: health and wellbeing, our homes and gardens, the food we eat, the wine we drink. Ryland Peters and Small staff has enormous fun creating their books, and they hope you have as much fun reading them.
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Comfort, simplicity, and elegance are the main characteristics of country interiors, making them the perfect antidote to the stresses and strains of modern living. Katrin Cargill draws on the enduring appeal of traditional rural homes to present a new, updated, easy-to-achieve approach to interior style. The unique "Easy Country" look brings together design influences from around the world. It is a distillation of elements associated with English country cottages, Shaker meeting houses, classical Swedish interiors, simple Mediterranean farmhouses, and the homes of the early American settlers. Katrin offers her own inimitable interpretation of the components of these styles to produce a look that is entirely her own—relaxed, unpretentious, and full of character and warmth. • The style is not confined to homes in the depths of the countryside. It is equally effective in a tall townhouse, a tiny one-bed studio, a small row house, an urban loft, or a weekend cottage. • Illustrated throughout with vibrant photographs by Simon Upton.
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This elegant yet practical book takes the mystery out of home furnishings, enabling you to create stylish effects in every room. Helped by James Merrell's illuminating photography, interiors consultant and designer katrin Cargill provides 200 up-to-date home-furnishing ideas ranging from simple yet stylish curtains and cozy pillows to elegant bedspreads and imaginative lampshades. Add subtle decorative touches to your bedroom, such as an embroidered or a contrasting border running around the edges of sheets, or ties and buttoning on pillows. Whether you prefer dainty florals or bold tailored stripes, make inviting and luxurious bedspreads such as a featherstitched patchwork quilt made from remnants of vintage printed cotton. Cover and trim lampshades to suit your own decorating style, transform your windows with Katrin's beautiful window dressings, or choose from the wealth of decorative ribbons and fastenings available to create fabulous pillows in dozens of ways. Includes 32 inspirational projects, each one accompanied by clear step-by-step instructions, all beautifully illustrated. The Home Furnishing Workbook is full of imaginative and easily achievable ways to enliven and enhance your home, whatever your level of skill. Includes an invaluable Equipment & Techniques chapter to help you get satisfying results, every time.
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Inspired by painted furniture traditions of the past, including those of Sweden and America, Katrin Cargill melds the best of the old with the new in her designs for modern living. Twenty step-by-step projects cover a wide range of furniture, including ideas for revitalizing old cupboards, decorating a plain chair, or making any piece of furniture unique.
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