A collection of beautiful ideas and projects to transform your living spaces. Contains over 600 projects, hints and tips for adding decorative elements to your home and garden. Includes ideas for transforming living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms, as well as a chapter on the garden. Contains a range of the tiny decorative details that are so important, such as candle holders and cushion covers. Also includes larger projects with greater impact such as a new look using geometric patterns or a complete change to your decor. Practical advice includes using decoupage, stamps, stencils, and many more techniques that will help you create your own look.
Tessa Evelegh is a writer and stylist specializing in stitchery of all kinds, crafts, interiors and gardens, with more than 30 titles to her name. Prior to going freelance, she spent eight years at Family Circle magazine, overseeing the dressmaking, interiors and fashion departments. Her work has been published in the Daily Telegraph, Homes and Gardens, Ideal Home and Woman and Home. An enthusiastic dressmaker since the age of five, when she ‘cut her teeth’ on dolls’ clothes, she still makes and customizes clothes, home furnishings and upholstery. Tessa lives in South London and has two (almost) grown-up daughters who also love to ‘make their own’.