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Title: Christopher Lowell's Seven Layers of Design: Fearless, Fabulous Decorating by Christopher Lowell ISBN: 1563319225 Publisher: Discovery Channel Inc Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57
Rating: 4
Summary: Help for the decorating dazed and confused
Comment: I enjoy Christopher Lowell's television show, and found his book equally terrific! The advice about interviewing and working with an interior decorator is worth the cost of the book by itself. The projects are challenging but definitely add to your home's look without putting you in the poorhouse. The best thing about Christopher Lowell? He starts with *paint*. Paint is cheap, and can simply be painted over without incurring thousands in re-dos and "buying mistakes." Paint also makes a huge impact, and you don't have to change furniture or buy expensive accessories.
It's not brain surgery, but home decorating can reduce the most self-assured woman to a tearful wreck. This book can either be followed to the letter or used as a springboard to other decorating books and magazines. Christopher's breezy writing style and easily understood explanations make the most fearful home decorator ready to finally pick up that paintbrush and get busy!
Rating: 5
Summary: Christopher Lowell's Seven Layers of Design
Comment: I absolutely love this book! Talk about well written! I can't tell you how much money I've spent on decorating books that told me absolutely nothing. I felt more intimidated after having read these books than I did before I read them. Christopher explains everything in such a way that you can't wait to start decorating!This book is informative and fun. Most decorating books tell you how to decorate once you've decided on a particular style but provide little to no information on how to develope your sense of style. They tell you to paint your walls but tell you nothing about how to go about picking a color you'll absolutely love. Christopher helps take out all of the guess work. This is a book worth purchasing.
Rating: 2
Summary: Paint for the first layer? Recipe for disaster!
Comment: Although I am an interior decorator for more than twenty years, my first impression of this book is "How Not To Decorate". How anyone can honestly begin with a paint color first is totally unqualified to teach the average consumer to decorate their own home. As far as I'm concerned, (and I do have experience), when you begin with a fabric, (Fabrique Technique) everything can be pulled from there, including paint colors! Can you imagine painting a room first, then trying to find a fabric to match? If I were to do that, I'd never attempt to decorate myself again if I were a novice. First of all, if one watches the show, when Christopher demonstrates his first layer of paint, isn't it uncanny how well his fabrics work with whatever paint color was chosen? I saw Ms. Raffo, the author of Fabrique Technique, at the Fruniture Market in High Point last year, and her seminar (to me) seemed the most logical way of approaching decorating not only for the professional, but for the amateur. I think Christopher Lowell has underestimated the intelligence of his audience by publishing this book.
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Title: Christopher Lowell's If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It: Dream Decor on a Budget by Christopher Lowell ISBN: 060960970X Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Use What You Have Decorating : Transform Your Home in One Hour With Ten Simple Design Principles -- Using the Space You Have, the Things You Like, the Budget You Choose by Lauri Ward ISBN: 039952536X Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 13 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Room and Furniture Layout Kit by Muncie Hendler ISBN: 0486242137 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1981 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Christopher Lowell's You Can Do It! Small Spaces: Decorating to Make Every Inch Count by Christopher Lowell ISBN: 1400047277 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The New Decorating Book (Better Homes and Gardens(R)) by Better Homes and Gardens ISBN: 0696213818 Publisher: Meredith Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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