Trading Spaces $100 to $1000 Makeovers: Maximizing Your Decorating Dollars

by Brian Kramer (Editor)

Tours 22 rooms that cover decorating elements from floor to ceiling. Lets consumers decide what to spend on various elements in each room. Featured rooms use three budget options so readers can see and achieve three different results . Plenty of use-what-you-have and inexpensive style ideas that fit any makeover. Introduces dozens of cost-saving skills, including furniture refinishing and reupholstering. Details how to take popular designer looks and re-create inexpensive chic versions.

Genres: Nonfiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published March 16, 2004

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 1 out of 5]

Apparently the budget theme continued into book production - this was just a badly designed book. I'm sure there were useful ideas in there, but I gave up trying to find them amid the mix of pictures (bad pictures in many cases, often just what truly appeared to be photos of the TV screen displaying a scene from the show) and text that jumped from topic to topic and room to room without visual separation of where one section began and another ended. Rather surprising for a book about design.

(Then again, one of the "splurge" budget ideas they showed was stapling $600 worth of fake flowers to a wall. Oy.)

[Jen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Best part was the section at the end that runs through how to measure properly for window treatments, flooring, paint, etc. also gives price ranges, suggestions, all the items you might want in a given space.

[Tedi · Rating 4 out of 5]

It has lots of practical advice and ways to do your make over in stages.