Synopses & Reviews
Learn to decorate like the pros and discover every rooms potential with Room Redux. Interior designers Joann Eckstut and Sheran James have developed the book that could make their job obsolete. Starting with how to appraise your needs and create a furniture floor plan, and progressing step-by-step toward the big decisionscolors, fabrics, walls, floors, and furniturethe authors friendly, savvy style demystifies the process and frees up the decorator within. Lively and instructive illustrations will empower even novice home decorators to develop their own style, and the fun scrapbook for-mat will keep those creative juices flowing. Tabbed for quick access and complete with graph paper and furniture cutouts for floor plans, plus pockets for clippings, fabric samples, and color swatches, the format is utterly approachable. For renters looking for quick-and-easy fixes as well as homeowners ready to overhaul entire rooms, Room Redux is the one-stop resource for guidance, inspiration, and great results.
Review
It seems there's always something more you can do for your house. Of course, you can hire an interior decorator if you have the money, but why not learn the practice yourself and go from there?
A new book, Room Redux, by designers Sheran James and Joann Eckstut, sets down the basic principles of home decorating in a way even the least visually minded folks can understand. It's useful whether you're dealing with a brand-new house or just a room that needs sprucing up.
The colorful book is full of illustrations that help you visualize lighting arrangements, upholstery fabrics or architectural details that could change a room completely.
Check-off lists and questionnaires in the beginning of each chapter help you determine your priorities whether a room needs a to be completely revamped or if you can build on the design elements you already have.
An especially fun part of the book has punch-out-furniture templates in a variety of dimensions. You first draw our a model of your home's layout on graph paper and then punch out templates that match your own furniture measurements. At that point you can arrange furniture and rearrange it until you get it just right without hurting your back.
Synopsis
Learn to decorate like the pros and create a furniture floor plan before progressing, step by step, toward the big decisions: colors, fabrics, walls, and floors. 250 color illustrations. 100 line drawings.
About the Author
Joann Eckstut teamed up with Sheran James to form Room Redux, a do-it-yourself design firm that has been featured in the New York Times, Metropolitan Home, and elsewhere. She lives in New York.
Sheran James teamed up with Joann Eckstut to form Room Redux, a do-it-yourself design firm that has been featured in the New York Times, Metropolitan Home, and elsewhere. She lives in New York.