Windows With Style

Set the style for every room in your house with fabulous, easy-to-make window treatments. Beautiful do-it-yourself ideas to help you create a custom-made look for a fraction of the cost! Step-by-step directions and full color photos guide you through the entire process of design, sewing and installation. Features a wide range of styles and solutions for standard or unique windows.

Windows & window treatments can influence & enhance every decor: opening a room to a glorious view or securing privacy; letting in light or keeping it out; accenting, complementing, or unifying a decorating scheme; taming a large room or expanding a small one. In House Beautiful Windows, all facets of window treatment are explored, including such considerations as scale, proportion, color, & harmony. Window treatments appropriate to every decorating style are offered, from ultra modern to historic homes. The "mechanics" of window treatment - how & where to use them - is presented, along with a look at the traditional & offbeat materials & accessories. House Beautiful Windows, with its more than 125 full-color photos, concludes with profiles of six homeowners throughout the country who have devised their own approaches to windows & window treatments.

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Windows form a focal point in most rooms. Walk into an empty room, and your eye is instantly drawn to the windows. Decisions about what window treatment to choose are often based on practical considerations: the function of the room in which they are situated, the architectural style or shape of the window, the style and colour of other furnishings within the room, the choice of materials available – and, of course, your budget. Window Style looks at some of these issues and shows that by carefully considering them, you can choose a style that will suit your window, your home and you. The book demonstrates the myriad styles available today by dividing them into eight distinct chapters: contemporary, classic, eclectic, romantic, rustic, retro, global and children’s rooms. In each of these chapters there are detailed suggestions for adapting your preferred style to fit different shapes and styles of windows – so that, whatever the architectural style of your home, you will discover how to achieve your chosen look.Gina Moore originally trained in fashion design. She has more than 15 years experience in soft furnishing and has written four books on the subject. She runs her own soft furnishings company in London and specialises in using natural and organic fabrics.

Window treatments play a significant role in the success of every home's decor. They may add dramatic impact or provide a subtle background for the rest of the interior. They can be used to augment or diffuse outdoor light, frame beautiful and comforting views or create privacy. Whether you prefer formal elegance or casual simplicity, you can enhance your home with window treatments that work just right for you. Windows with Style presents a myriad of inspirational options you can create. Beautiful full-colour photographs show you possibilities to fit your needs, whatever your skills and time frame. Discover how you can use fabrics and trims to create perfect window treatments for every room in your home. Clear, easy instructions with step-by-step photographs will get you from start to finish.

Windows are the natural focal point of any room, so naturally, Windows With Style is the ideal way for anyone to turn a "Plain Jane" window into a decorator's showpiece. The contemporary tone of this publication explains how window treatments may be used to set the style for an entire room, accent furnishings, and even enhance a decorative theme.

They are astonishing, wonderful, and always, invariably modern: the windows at Tiffany’s Fifth Avenue flagship are the stuff dreams are made of. Their appeal is universal, inviting passersby, old and young, to vanish through the looking glass and into a spellbinding world of robin’s egg blue where even the most elusive of fantasies may come true. This hand-bound oversize Ultimate Collection edition presents a well-curated tour of the intricately crafted displays that continue to serve as references of the zeitgeist, from the legendary designer Gene Moore’s Christmas and Valentine’s displays to the neon creations of the current Tiffany & Co. creative team. Along with never-before-seen concept sketches, historical manuscripts, behind the scenes imagery and insights by cultural influencers and devotees of the world’s global arbiter of design and style, Windows at Tiffany’s revisits the whimsy and spirit of one of the world’s most recognized brands, and elicits nostalgia for each reader’s first blue box moment.

Some people clip and save recipes. Some save coupons. For years, I clipped and saved window designs. Even before I opened my first decorating studio, I had shoeboxes full of window-treatment clippings that I thought were too pretty to put away and then forget about. Pouring over these crumpled magazine and newspaper clippings time after time gave me countless ideas for designs in my customers' homes. The shoebox was my source of inspiration. To be sure, most of the clippings never made it to the window in their original form. Somewhere along the way the designs were modified or elaborated upon to fit individual situations (pocketbooks) and choices of lifestyle. They all turned out beautifully however, and so it will be with you. It's all a part of the art of window designing. No matter what the shape or size of your window, its location, its limitations or your present economic situation, you will learn how to fit your design to all of the elements of need and still attain your ultimate aesthetic goals. The bulk of this book is "how-to." All of the designs have been tested. Some are extravagant.. some minimal, a style that's popular today. All are focused on simplicity in construction and ways to cut costs. My hope for this book is that by taking the best of these ideas out of the shoebox and placing them before you in an organized, simplified, and instructive manual, I can help resolve some of your decorating dilemmas up front and enable you to cut through the trial and error stages that so many of us have to go through. Hopefully, too, this book will instill in you confidence in your designing abilities and dispel any myths that you might have that window designing belongs solely in the domain of the experienced decorator or the professional workroom.I have discovered that many decorating books are big on photographs to inspire, but inadequately illustrated to show you how to achieve those beautiful results. So this book contains photographs of finished installations sand over 400 illustrations on how to measure, make, and install just about every conceivable window treatment--the easy way. Charts and checklists will help you avoid costly figuring mistakes. Easily understood instructions will eliminate fabricating guesswork and frustration.Many of your decisions by necessity, will be based on the window itself--its operation, size, shape and style. For that reason this book opens with the anatomy of the window, its replacement and repair and some food for thought for unusual window styles. Other basics covered are the characteristics of fabrics and materials, the principles of color, texture and pattern; and period designs.