Today's prevailing design aesthetic is minimalism: clean lines, uncluttered spaces, and simple but elegant materials. Rather than relying on bold fabrics and an overabundance of accessories, designers are allowing surfaces themselves to determine color, pattern, and texture. The perfect tool for this new approach is "The Surface Texture Bible", ...
A comprehensive guide to 180 effective combinations of color and texture with side-by-side swatches including: flooring, paint colors and accents, fabric for furnishings and drapes, and surface colors, textures and materials.
This book reflects the new mood for luxury in simple things. Kelly Hoppen focuses on texture, and how to use it as effectively as possible in the home. Using fabrics, stone, glass and metal; textures are grouped together to create dramatic stunning effects. In Touch works on many levels- of inspiration, and of materials themselves, then how to ...
A unique mix-and-match guide to choosing walls, floors, fabrics and surfaces for the home - Simple to use, you only need to flip the split pages back and forth to find the look you want - Features over half a million combinations for walls, fabrics and floors - Each spread suggests winning combinations for a wide variety of styles and finishes
Lavishly illustrated and organized by type of pattern, "A Passion for Pattern" provides hundreds of useful tips on working with pattern throughout the home. Complete instructions for 12 sophisticated projects are accompanied by step-by-step illustrations, and a resource directory lists important sources. 300 full-color photos, 60 illustrations.
With beautiful photographs and clear instructions, this new Laura Ashley book inspires readers as it show them the newest, most versatile ways to achieve a onderful range of colors in the home. The book emphasizes crafts such as patchwork, applique, decoupage, and wreath-making, allowing readers to make excellent use of left-over materials and ...
This volume lets the reader see at a glance how texture and colour combine to help create a room that feels as good as it looks. The reader can match colours and textures together, while examples show how they can be fitted into the home. The guidebook goes through every room in the home and each room comes complete with a corresponding texture ...
There is nothing like a well-chosen mix of colors and textures to lend a home a sense of style and personality. Packed with hundreds of captivating photographs, Color & Texture: Decorative Expressions for Today's Home presents numerous ways of employing beautiful color schemes and textural embellishments to set the desired mood.
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