Home Decorating Made Easy [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION Regard your home as an artist would a canvas. If you are very lucky and can afford the cost, you may have a blank canvas on which you can paint the picture you have dreamed about. Most of us are not quite so lucky. Our canvas already has certain outlines and colours marked on it which limit what else we can add. Make these limitations work for you: they can provide a framework and a stimulus for your creativity, while still preventing you from going overboard with your plans. It is very important to assess your own situation carefully, before you make a start on any work. If you are renting your home, limit expenditure on permanent fixtures and concentrate on those things which you can take with you when you move, such as rugs, lamps, pictures, cushions and so on. It can be heartbreaking to leave behind expensive curtains made to fit an oddly shaped window, when simple rod pocket curtains, without expensive tracks, could happily grace a similar-sized window in a new flat. If you own the home you are decorating (even if it is in partnership with the bank!), your problems will be different. There may be so much that you want or need to do that you hardly know where to begin. This is the time to make apian and a list of priorities. In this book, you will find dozens of decorative options. Look them over carefully to give you an idea of where you might begin. Finally, do not slavishly follow current fashion, but try to establish an atmosphere that you are comfortable with and which works for you and your family. If all the glossy magazines dictate white carpet and a white leather-covered settee, but you have small children and a large dog, clearly this is not the look for you. You might be happier with polished boards and some serviceable loose covers which can be easily cleaned.