Offers advice on buying furniture, carpeting, fabrics, lighting, window treatments, wallpaper, bed linens, and accessories, and lists factory outlets, wholesale design centers, and discount sources

Here's Everything You Need to Know About Shopping for Furniture, Featuring 310 Extremely Effective Tips for Choosing and Buying the Best Furniture for Your House. If you are interested in buying furniture than you need to read this book right now as it may be the most important furniture buying book you'll read in a long time. Here's just a fraction of what you're going to discover in this book that you simply will not learn anywhere else: * How to best take advantage of the most effective furniture shopping ideas - tips to make any of your furniture buying a success. * The surprising "little-known tricks" that will help you get the most out of your furniture shopping. * How to find low cost furniture items; this best kept secret will save you lots of money on your purchases. * Do's and don'ts for negotiating with furniture retailers: top furniture negotiation ideas for getting the best price. * How to take your furniture purchasing skills to the next level; be ready to be surprised when you discover how easy and effective this is. * The simple unvarnished truth about what works and what doesn't work when furniture shopping, this is really crucial! * Extremely effective ways to take advantage of recently discovered furniture materials and methods. * Furniture shopping myths you need to avoid at all costs. * Golden rules to help you get better at furnishing your home; discover simple methods that work perfectly every time. * The vital keys to completing a home furnishing project successfully. * How to make sure you come up with the most effective solutions to your house furnishing challenges. * A simple, practical furniture buying strategy to dramatically cut down costs, but amazingly enough, almost no one understands or uses it. * The top furniture shopping mistakes people do - and how to avoid them. * How to put together an effective home furnishing routine: the golden rules of good furniture buying practices - find out the easiest, simplest ways to take on the most effective furniture shopping ideas. * The exact furniture shopping routine you should be following for every project. * What nobody ever told you about furnishing a home; insider secrets of avoiding the most bothersome challenges. * All these and much much more.

Recipient of the Gold Medal in the Living Now Awards-Home Improvement The essential do-it-yourself guide from one of the top designers in the country that uncovers the secret home design rules used by the pros Many design books are filled with lavish photography of perfect rooms that most of us can only dream of re-creating. Without any practical advice, the look is unattainable. That's where Design Rules comes in. Here, Elaine Griffin, one of the country's 100 top designers (House Beautiful), explains all the practical decorating standards that professionals use behind the scenes to create flowing, balanced, gorgeous design. Packed with helpful illustrations and hundreds of step-by-step tips, Design Rules includes essential advice such as: ?Pick a pleasing color palette (that really works) ?Correctly size their bedsize tables (so they don't tower over their beds) ?Enhance the visual appeal of windowless rooms (so they're not dungeons) ?Design furniture arrangements that function and flow ?Style up even the most forlorn kitchens, baths and yes, basements and laundry rooms (honey, no space is too dreadful to be made ultra fab) ?Brighten up their kitchens with a can of paint and a burst of strategically- placed color (location, location, location!) ?Figure out which styles of furniture go together (there is a rule and it's easy!) ?Make their own personalities shine throughout their homes (because they should) ?And oodles more! Design Rules is for the growing number of savvy, novice home designers who are well-versed in what good design looks like, but need advice on how to translate it into their own home. It is the home design bible people have been waiting for.

A must-read for anyone buying furniture, this guide is filled with marvelous tips from a home furnishing expert, who offers advice on how to begin, what to buy and not to buy, where to shop, and who to avoid.

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