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    Timeless Design: Beyond Decorating Trends
    Timeless Design: Beyond Decorating Trends
    Timeless Design: Beyond Decorating Trends
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    Timeless Design: Beyond Decorating Trends

    By Sharon Kroll

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    Timeless DesignBeyond Decorating Trends is a decorating book for today and every day. Dont let marketing dictate how you decorate your home. Trends are created as marketing tools to sell merchandise. In truth, there is no good or bad design style, color scheme, or decade in which design originates only good or bad design. Why is it that the trend you were so eager to adopt suddenly becomes outdated in eight years? Does design have a shelf life? Does it go bad when the next trend comes along? No, good design is timeless. It should be difficult to identify the year it was done. Every period has good and bad design. So the key is to recognize good design and apply it to your personal taste. Get off the design treadmill and create a home that suits your needs, comfort, and design style, a home that doesnt need to be redecorated until you are ready to do so. Timeless Design gives you simple principles that can be applied to any room at any time. Each principle is accompanied by a room interior as an example. Timeless DesignBeyond Decorating Trends is the book for anyone who wants to make their home their own and not what marketing dictates.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateAug 11, 2011
    ISBN9781452540580
    Timeless Design: Beyond Decorating Trends
    Author

    Sharon Kroll

    Sharon Kroll is a California certified interior designer with over three decades of design and teaching experience. She has worked on a wide variety of residential and commercial projects. Her work has been published in three international design magazines, one featuring a large country home she designed in England. She resides in Southern California. Her website is www.krollinteriordesign.freeservers.com.

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      Book preview

      Timeless Design - Sharon Kroll

      Timeless Design

      Beyond Decorating Trends

      Sharon Kroll

      Copyright © 2011 Sharon Kroll

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4525-3385-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-4058-0 (e)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Balboa Press rev. date: 8/11/2011

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1. Color

      Neutrals:

      Saturated Color:

      Shades:

      Tints:

      Muted Colors:

      Creating a Color Scheme:

      Warm and Cool Colors:

      Color Tips:

      Chapter 2. Design Elements

      Line:

      Texture:

      Balance:

      Space and Form:

      Chapter 3. Creating a Focal Point

      Chapter 4. Accessorizing

      Picture Arranging:

      Other Accessories:

      Chapter 5. Decorating Styles

      Traditional:

      Contemporary:

      Transitional:

      Eclectic:

      Formal:

      Informal:

      Semi-Formal:

      When Were These Rooms Designed

      Afterword

      Acknowledgements

      I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the completion of each of the rooms shown in this book. Without them my designs could not have been executed. Even when some of the projects were complicated they fulfilled the vision perfectly. The list below includes suppliers, showrooms, installers, painters, workrooms, contractors and artists. Not listed are my wonderful clients without whose inner desires none of these rooms could have come about.

      Abode Fine Furnishings

      Bellanti Custom Upholstery

      Dennis Brantzeg

      Bixby Plaza Carpets

      Carpet Affair

      Chang’s Painting

      Design Center Associates

      Terin Dumas

      Dunn Edwards Paints

      Interior Solutions

      Katie Lindsted

      Tye Lindsted

      Soleta’s Draperies

      Stark Carpet

      Steffanino’s Custom Framing

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