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. (20050105)

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.

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.

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.

A new approach to country style.

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.