The irrepressible Sunny Goode explores how decorative painting can work for children’s rooms--with happy results that will delight any kid. She’s created imaginative, fun rooms for little babies, for playing and growing in (ages 4-8), and for thinking and dreaming (designed for 9-12 year-olds). These are bright, safe, and personal spaces of color and lightness. Goode shows how to embellish a nursery with marching elephants or cheerful dots, wrap a girl’s room in bands of vivid color, and create a "creature feature” pattern with blue alligators. An introduction discusses paint basics, and illustrated "You Can Do It!” sections interspersed throughout present important techniques.

Here are rooms that kids love-and the creative know-how for making these designs your own, whether your rooms are large or small, your kids tiny or twelve. Each chapter is packed with full-color photos of fresh ideas for designing children's bedrooms, bathrooms, playrooms, and studies. Information on fabrics, wallpapers, curtains, furniture, and rugs helps you navigate the vast array of choices available. Interviews from design experts, parents, and kids help you create decorative style that's real, that's fun, and that's just for kids.

Decorating with style, not dollars, is the focus of this guide to buying or making inexpensive and original flower boxes, pillows, tablescapes, collages and more. Photos, some in color.

Another updated bestseller in the "Smart Approach" series, The Smart Approach to Kids' Rooms starts with the premise: "Think like a professional." Parents will find all the inspiration and information they need to create any kid's dream room. Chapters include a basic primer on the general principles of good design and how to apply them to individual needs and lifestyles. Topics include: working with color, choosing furniture, organizing space, storage, special ideas for walls, windows, and floors, plus safety tips. One chapter addresses designing for children with special needs.

Do you feel overwhelmed by your lack of organization in your home? Does it seem like your space is slowly turning into a disaster? Do you feel like you are being overwhelmed by the mess and dust that seem to accumulate every time you turn around? If so, you are not alone; thousands of people share your frustration. In this article I will show you how you can start organizing your home in the fastest way possible. I will be showing you three different methods for implementing a home organization checklist. After reading this article, you should be able to easily implement one or more of these methods into your daily life. Hopefully you will gain some new confidence that will help you become more organized and improve the way your home looks. The first method of organization involves taking out everything you own and categorizing them. Next, you should use baskets and other containers to store everything in. Baskets are an excellent way to store things because they allow you to easily see what you have. You will always wear a clear container such as a bin, drawers, or a basket because you never want to guess at what you have on hand.

A few years ago, decorative painter Sunny Goode created Sunny’s Goodtime Paints with a single goal in mind: giving everyone the means to reproduce the beauty of old fresco plaster, stone walls, or glazed finishes in their own homes. Paint Can!--a lavishly illustrated, inspiring, and instructive primer on how to add decorative flourishes with paint--is the next logical step in her mission. She offers a complete on-the-page course called "Paint 101” and explains just what paint can do, from highlighting architectural details to making small rooms appear larger. And almost every technique is here: colorwashing, working freehand, stenciling, glazing, imitating stoneblock, and adding patterns to a surface. It’s the simple way to add color and personality to every room. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.