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Decorating Easy
Create a Simple, Comfortable Home with Pure Style
- Author: Jane Cumberbatch
- Category: Non-fiction How-to Lifestyle
- Publisher: Quadrille
- Pub date: 7 September 2005
- Length: 160 pages
About Decorating Easy
In Decorating Easy, Jane Cumberbatch presents her blueprint for a comfortable, liveable, yet always stylish home that is practical and easy to maintain. Her approach to homemaking is about decorating simply, paring down and making the most of your space without spending a fortune. The book details how to put an entire room together, from the basic architectural structure and use of space, through the furniture and fittings, down to the small but essential decorative finishes. The main body of the book, Decorating Secrets, has complete schemes for every room in the house from the entrance to the garden. Each of the 60 schemes is illustrated with colour photographs taken in real homes and has detailed recipe-style instructions. Essential information is given on preparation work and other practical aspects of DIY that need to be considered, including working up designs and sketches, putting together colour and pattern, working to a budget and the core decorators’ tools needed to get the job done. There are features on the key areas that transform a room, from adequate storage in the kitchen to calming colour in the bedroom. A section with Twenty Things to Make and Do contains full instructions for a range of projects for stylish finishing touches, including decorative painting ideas, soft furnishings and home accessories to give a home its heart.
About the Author
For the last two decades, Jane has been promoting her vision of a simpler life in her best selling books (over 450,000 copies worldwide). A former decorating editor of House & Garden magazine, Jane has worked as a journalist and style director on leading publications including Elle Decoration. Her stylish and influential look has been used to sell many home furnishing brands including Habitat, Marks and Spencer and Laura Ashley.
Jane’s design ideas are regularly featured in leading interiors and lifestyle magazines and newspapers, worldwide. And, decorated with her trademark simplicity, Jane’s house is in constant demand as a location and hired out to clients such as Next and The White Company.
Voted by Elle Decoration (July 09) as one of the best Style Blogs on the web, Jane’s website sets out her simple design philosophy illustrating it with strong evocative images. Visitors to the site, which also includes a shop selling Jane’s books, are growing fast.
Jane is married to Alastair, has three children, Tom 20, Georgie 17 and Gracie 15, a dog, a cat, a bicycle and a vegetable patch. The family live in south London.