The Impatient Decorator: 201 Shortcuts to a Beautiful Home (Interior Design and Architecture)

Just about every home or apartment comes with a long fix-it list, but most people don't have the time for elaborate decorating schemes or the money for expensive updates. They want simple, easy fixes that work, and they want them now. Geared specifically to the realities of 21st-century home ownership, this home-decorating guide aims to offer those easy fixes. Organized as a series of 101 tips and tricks that address the most common decorating problems and how to solve them, this is a hands-on manual for making any living space attractive, stylish and functional - in record time. Photographs illustrate timesaving solutions, including blanketing ugly walls with beautiful fabrics, slip-covering flea-market furniture, cheap and easy lighting tricks to brighten up dark or small rooms, simple wall and window treatments and more.