Decorating Small Spaces: Live Large in Any Space (Better Homes & Gardens)

Room-by-room details for living areas, dining spaces, kitchens, bedrooms, baths, workstations, and more.

Ideas to arrange furniture, manage clutter, create illusion, convert for several purposes, and use color, pattern and texture effectively.

Whole-house tours showcase decorating principals that work in small spaces.

Shows how color palettes unify spaces throughout a house.

Includes a room arranging kit.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 747
EAN: 9780696218613
ISBN: 0696218615
Label: Better Homes and Gardens
Manufacturer: Better Homes and Gardens
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2004-01-06
Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens
Release Date: 2004-01-06
Studio: Better Homes and Gardens


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Big Ideas for Small Spaces
• Living Large in Small Spaces: Expressing Personal Style in 100 to 1,000 Square Feet
• Small Spaces: Good Ideas
• The Smart Approach to Small-Space Living (Smart Approach)
• The New Apartment Book: Inspiring Ideas and Practical Projects for Decorating Your Home


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Some helpful ideas!
Comment: I think the book is worthwhile...even if just for the photos...in the case of those that have some concept of how to put things together or make those photos come to life. I was inspired by several pictures that I plan to implement. However there may be those who find the book is lacking in detail as to how to create some of the purposed ideas...so in that respect it may be frustrating. The book doesn't focus enough in my opinion on small spaces...as much as it does on being more organized & utilizing creative organizational methods to enhance a space. It appears that some of the rooms could be categorized as medium to large in some cases...so I deducted points for BH&G for not sticking to the main so called objective of the book. Overall I'd recommend the book though...however try finding it on sale to ease your conscience.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great tips and photos
Comment: The book's strong points are the photos and some of the practical tips and ideas. It's not an easy read so I don't see myself reading it again, but I will flip through it from time to time to get ideas from the pictures.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Some Drawbacks, But Great Photos for Ideas
Comment: I gave this 4 stars on the wealth of large, colorful photos and the ideas you can get from those.
Had to knock off one star for the difficulty of reading the text. Sentences 25 to 35 words long are difficult to digest (and I have a masters degree). The photo captions are grouped together, forcing the eye to jump back and forth trying to see what is being described. Even the picture captions are such dense text that they require re-reading to figure out what the author is saying. By page 100, I'd abandoned the text and just examined the photos.
There are some great ideas to be gleaned from this book. I liked the sliding mirror that revealed a television inset into a bedroom wall. Also great was the hidden storage in stair treads. It's too bad that the text just didn't flow well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: There are some good areas of the book...
Comment: There are some good areas in the book, but overall its more about living cluttered not large in any space, much less a small space. For me the book seems to be aimed toward middle America who needs lots of stuff, rather than a peaceful simple abode. To many of the rooms shown have to much 'stuff'.

Very few of the rooms with windows shown have windows that are unblocked and allowing light to bathe the room. Something those of us who live in small cottages know makes for a bright and cheery place. Instead they often have shelves with stuff on them or stuff on the windowsills themselves. What I call dust catchers.

And on page 114 there is a loft style bed for a child yet the child shown is a toddler whom I would never put in a bed almost five feet off the ground. But its a great design for an older child. And there are a few simple and lovely places shown but not enough for my tastes and needs, since I am checking books out not because I want to look at pretty pictures, but because I need some ideas for a place I am planning on building
Customer Rating:
Summary: Decent Book With Great Tips
Comment: For me THE GREATEST part of the book are pages 184-190, where you can create a layout of a room with the graph paper and cut outs that are included in the book!

Although the book gave good tips in laymens terms, I didn't really care for some of the pictures. Since I'm a first time homebuyer, most new developments in my area already have great kitchens & baths (stainless steel appliances, jacuzzi tubs, hardwood floors, marble countertops) so I was looking for a little inspiration from pictures in this book that I didn't get.

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