A comprehensive resource for understanding the categories of consumer goods for the home and the raw products utilized to make them, Know Your Home Furnishings, Second Edition, enables students to understand the major categories of home furnishings and the diverse consumer demand for fashionable and functional products. This new edition is up-to-date with all the latest industry trends and important people. With new material covering kitchenware, electronics, window treatments, and historical furniture, Know Your Home Furnishings is more indispensable than ever.

With the expert sewing techniques shared in this book, anyone can create home-made soft furnishings with a designer's flair.

"He offers specific, easy-to-follow instructions for sewing tie-on dining chair covers that chichi caterers use. Other do-it-yourself highlights include directions for creating table napkins with zigzag borders, sofa cushions with scalloped edges, and roulea-edged pillowcases. Best of all, the instructions are accessible and use widely available materials. If you can't stitch a hem, you can always share this resourceful book with your favorite seamstress. All the ideas embrace Conran's signature contemporary, continental, and simple design ethos."--"Better Homes and Gardens."

An accessible yet stylish how-to from a lifestyle editor for a major retailer, Your Home, Your Style will appeal to those readers who bought how-to books by blogger Erin Gates (The Elements of Style) and Lauren Liess (Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating). The first book from the style director for popular home décor site Joss & Main is a lively, chic roadmap to finding and implementing your style at home.

50 stylish projects from the aisles of the home improvement center In Home from the Hardware Store, artist and designer Stephen Antonson and his wife, Kathleen Hackett ply the aisles of the home improvement center and emerge with a host of ideas for clever, original decorative objects any interior designer would love. Antonson and Hackett cast their eyes on pedestrian materials—drain covers, cork matting, plumbing parts, light sockets, brass nails—and see lamps, wallpaper, table runners, side tables, even cuff links. Organized by decorating challenge, chapters include ideas for lighting, windows and walls, furniture, tabletop, and storage. Beautiful full-color photos, including how-to pictures along with clear, concise, yet friendly instructions, accompany every project. Sidebars and quick tips are scattered throughout, providing DIYers with gentle reminders and instructions for basic tool and equipment use. Design lovers, crafters, and penny pinchers alike will find much to inspire in Home from the Hardware Store.

An authoritive guide to solving all of your home furnishing problems with more than 100 professional techniques and 35 projects. From creating goblet-pleated curtains and a classic Roman blind to forming pinch pleats and tying curtain cords, this detailed book will guide you through the most simple and the most intricate of projects. Beginning with planning and design, this book has all the basics including: fitting, cutting, measuring, calculating, joining, stitching and pressing. And whether decorating the bedroom windows, adding floral chair covers in the kitchen or creating some cushions for the living room couch, Home Furnishings Workbook is a must have for every aspiring do-it-yourself decorator.

An invaluable reference and hands-on book which shows how to achieve smart and stylish soft furnishings. It covers everything you need to know about planning, measuring, estimating fabric and making successful soft furnishings.