Soft Furnishings (Short Cuts to Designer Style)

by JoAvison (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.22

  If you want to freshen the mood of a room, transform the atmosphere and style by sewing new window treatments, cushions, and other accessories. Many of the projects feature curtains, with your choice of hand-pleated, looped, slotted, taped headings. Others show some new blinds (Roman, Austrian, and festoon blinds) as well as cafe curtains. Still others offer imaginative touches for pelmets, valances, drapes, and tiebacks. Hints for putting on finishing touches make sure you create your personal style every time.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $4.30

  Create flawless curtains, blinds, cushions, and other soft furnishings without using complicated methods or expensive materials. Instructions for basic techniques and twenty complete projects make it easy to finish a room with style. Tempting full-color photographs of beautifully designed rooms offer plenty of incentive to start sewing, and guidance is given for selecting color schemes, themes, fabrics, and materials. Make versatile and useful cafe curtains or elegant drapes. Explore the limitless possibilities of curtain tiebacks. Bring romance to a bedroom with billowing, transparent bed curtains. Add special touches with bows, rosettes, and other frills. Each stylish project offers a range of fresh, innovative ideas. A variety of alternative suggestions, such as using fabric to make a room divider, encourages creativity and provides plenty of inspiration. Using designers' tips and tricks, anyone can add warmth, coziness, color, or comfort to a room with just a few carefully chosen elements.