num_pages: 192
description: Here are tricks for creating cutting-edge interior design from tile original style setter at New York's trendsetting ABC Carpet &amp; Home. The recent issue of Metropolitan Home magazine featured a New York apartment furnished with beautiful finds scavenged from flea markets. America has developed a yen for the vintage. Whether covering an entire wall with a salon-style arrangement of pictures creating the "attic" look; throwing together a grand canopied bed faked with gilded molding and draperies to evoke thc "exotic"; or choosing to go "spare" by displaying carefully selected objects, including old tools, glass boxes, or botanical prints, style setter Rebecca Purcell shows how anyone can create expressive rooms that make a statement. Full-color photographs in each chapter show how these fabulous styles were produced in different homes. Chapters include do-it-yourself projects for finishing touches, including tassels, aging fabrics and metals, valances and draperies, wall washing and stenciling, picture matting, and more.
language: English
title: Interior Alchemy: Secrets to Creating Expressive Ambience
titlecomplete: Interior Alchemy: Secrets to Creating Expressive Ambience
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 35
publisher: William Morrow