Best Duvet Covers

Everyone who's ever been horrified by department-store prices on curtains and duvet covers needs this book! It's packed with easy ways to get those designer looks using favorite fabrics and beginning sewing skills. Six duvet covers, twin through king, plus two dust ruffles and six curtain projects make it easy to coordinate a room or a whole house.

From the mudroom to the bathroom, children often take over a household and force many parents to live in the recesses and outskirts of their homes. Living with kids adds a dimension to life that makes most grown-ups vow not to entertain or invest in anything nice for their home until the children decide to leave the nest. Decorating Kids' Rooms and Family-Friendly Spaces provides parents with the ideas, tools, and inspiration they need to make their home beautiful, livable, comfortable, and functional for both themselves and their children. There is no need to sacrifice style while raising a family. Define your own lifestyle needs and the day-to-day workings of your own family and you'll find you can create an environment in which your entire family feels comfortable. Simple, effective storage solutions; kid-friendly fixtures; kid-specific rooms; family inspired art; and shopping checklists are all included in this very hands-on decorating resource. Book jacket.

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Before & After: Bethany's Big Impact Bedroom | Apartment Therapy ...

by Bethany Adams

For most of us, wily our adroit in is an developing. You start with an understanding of how you craving it to be and with outmoded and crack you almost always end up getting good-looking shut up to your character concept. Such was the function with my bedroom, except all I knew when I got started 6 and a half years ago was that I wanted it to be lavender and class of mid-century new. After painting it a exuberant dirty-tinged lavender, it was approximately 5 years later I had always liked yellow with lavender, but I wasn't reliable what would employment with my new darker walls. A mate of mine suggested mustard yellow and — though I was skeptical at first, I fancy it! I brought it in on the elusive stroke on the West Elm silk portiere (no longer accessible), and a lovely vase I bought in an antiques aggregate. Once, I changed out the build on the Rothko-esque pastel my sister had done for me from a brushed stainless to an antiqued rudeness for a softer look.