Iconic British brand Farrow & Ball began in the 1940s as a small firm specializing in paints made in the traditional way with traditional ingredients. Iconic British brand Farrow & Ball began in the 1940s as a small firm specializing in paints made in the traditional way with traditional ingredients. Despite its success, Farrow & Ball has stayed true to these origins. It is the quality of the paint, with its exceptional depth and subtlety of color, that has made the company famous worldwide. Farrow & Ball paints look as good on the walls of a slick flat as they do in a period ballroom and are as perfect for a cottage as in a castle. Divided into chapters according to style, including Classical, City, Modern Country, Cottage, and Country House, the first part of the book shows Farrow & Ball paints and wallpapers in a wide range of unusual and beautiful interiors. Part Two of the book is devoted to color. From the themes of All White and In Neutral to Softly, Softly, and Bright and Beautiful, each chapter explores a particular palette and shows how color can be used to create atmosphere, character, and charm. Inspiring, instructive, celebratory, this book brings out the painter and decorator in us all.
This beautiful book contains just enough information for you to plan and decorate your bedroom -- without getting sidetracked by fussy details or impossibly ambitious schemes. Bedroom Essentials starts with Getting the Elements Right, showing you how to plan the space and choose the right color scheme. This chapter also explores furniture and storage, window treatments and soft furnishings, and lighting and display. Next, Putting it Together considers various styles of bedroom -- from contemporary and country style to classical elegance -- and tackles the challenges posed by a small bedroom. A photographic montage page at the end of each section offers plenty of ideas, with detailed photographs to get you thinking. Finally, an invaluable list of resources identifies the best places to buy what you need.
Be your own interior designer. This book covers everything from structural changes to reupholstering a sofa and hanging pictures. Case studies are accompanied by informative artworks that pick out key elements of each design. Homes featured include those of designers Roger Oates and Bruce Oldfield.
Some styles of decorating have a longer shelf life than others. One of the most durable is what has come to be known as English Country Style, which works just as well in a city apartment or suburban home as it does in a rectory or manor house. We may recognize an interior as archetypally English, but putting a finger on exactly what makes it so can be tricky. One of the strengths of English style is that it isn’t prescriptive. In fact, quite the opposite. It is relaxed, laissez-faire, and endlessly adaptable—all reasons, no doubt, why it has enjoyed such longevity. You may know it when you see it, but what are its essential ingredients? In Perfect English Style, Ros Byam Shaw looks at a range of rooms with a strong English feel to them. As it happens, almost all are in England, although this is a look that travels the world, from the Americas to the Antipodes, still predominantly English in flavor even when spiced with foreign ingredients. She explores the main rooms of a house, their characteristics and furnishings, and how they achieve that mix of comfort, informality, and visual charm that is the hallmark of English style. Ros also homes in on specifics: the qualities of patina, the important role of fabrics, how to buy and include antique and vintage furnishings, and how a collection, whether of pebbles or 18th-century glass, adds individuality and character.
Explores five popular styles of decorating so that you can decide what look you want to create, from sleek and modern, to country and rustic. It discusses planning, dividing space, furniture and storage, as well as colour, lighting, flooring, and window treatments.
Indulge your senses in an extravagant, evocative experience, as we celebrate what is most pleasing to the eye, delicious and fragrant to taste and smell, nice to the touch, and soothing to the ear. Taking each sense in turn, a visually sophisticated photographer shows how it functions individually, affects our moods, and interrelates with the others. Explore all possibilities, and as you roam these magnificent interiors, think of fresh ways to bring pleasure and comfort to your private dwelling.
Modern Natural brings a mellow mood to modern interiors. It celebrates theleasure of living with natural materials that introduce a sense of relaxedomfort to everyday life. Life may be complicated and computerised but,ithin our own homes, we can create a tranquil retreat that brings us inouch with fundamental pleasures - the solidity of stone, the grain of wood,he scent of leather, the brush of cashere.ore than just a fleeting new trend, the Modern Naturalook is timeless yet sophisticated, great to live with and easy on the eye.
This book has all the inspiration and advice you need to design and decorate your home without getting sidetracked by fussy details or unnecessarily complicated schemes.
This beautiful book contains just enough information for you to plan and decorate your bedroom -- without getting sidetracked by fussy details or impossibly ambitious schemes. Bedroom Essentials starts with Getting the Elements Right, showing you how to plan the space and choose the right color scheme. This chapter also explores furniture and storage, window treatments and soft furnishings, and lighting and display. Next, Putting it Together considers various styles of bedroom -- from contemporary and country style to classical elegance -- and tackles the challenges posed by a small bedroom. A photographic montage page at the end of each section offers plenty of ideas, with detailed photographs to get you thinking. Finally, an invaluable list of resources identifies the best places to buy what you need.
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