Browse this list of wonderful decorating books from House Beautiful Magazine. You'll be able to read reviews of the titles, decide which ones to add to your library, and find online sources for these books at attractive discounts.
1. House Beautiful Bedrooms
Subtitled "Fresh Ideas for Decorating the Most Intimate Room in the House", this book offers tips for private bedroom spaces, including backgrounds, furniture, and accessories. You'll love the many beautiful pictures and professional decorating advice that fill the pages of this book.(1996)
2. House Beautiful Art
Hanging and displaying artwork confounds most homeowners. This book tackles the "art" of hanging artwork. Though most of us aren't art collectors, the principles of display apply to onefine painting as well as a dozen colorful posters or prints. (2001)3. House Beautiful Bathrooms
This book may surprise you with its wide variety of styles, elements, and designs. With everything from practical tips to extravagant hot tubs, you'll surely find some great ideas for your own bathroom in its pages.(1999)4. House Beautiful Decorating Style
The many chapters of this book take the reader through decorating essentials, elements of design, and interior details, focusing on functional creativity, rather than extravagance. It then goes on to illustrate some interior remodeling projects with a twist. This is a good basic book with lovely photos and a myriad of design ideas. (2004)5. House Beautiful Details: How to Decorate with Accessories
This book can take the mystery out of tablescaping and accessorizing a home. Offering principles, tips, and five simple rules of display -- shape, scale, texture, color, and finish -- it promises to transform the ho-hum to the elegant. (2001)6. House Beautiful Entertaining
Learn some fun entertaining tricks from such luminaries as Bill Blass and Geoffrey Beene. Included are centerpiece ideas, as well as menus and planning tips. (1997)7. House Beautiful Fireplaces
This is an "everything you need to know" book about fireplaces. It presents styles, fireplace and mantle architecture, and ideas for design and decoration. You'll see wonderful photos of traditional, modern, and custom-designed fireplaces for every room in the house. (2004)8. House Beautiful Great Style
Great interior design and style is defined by the work of prominent interior designers who are showcased in this book. Over 200 photos show the designs of regions, eras, and materials used in interior design through the last 100 years. (1996)9. House Beautiful Kitchens
Affordable and achievable ideas for tailoring a kitchen of every design style are presented in this book. Designers from around the United States share their solutions for kitchen design challenges in all budget ranges, and the results are illustrated with 140 color photos. (1993)10. House Beautiful Small Spaces
Does any home really have enough space? House Beautiful helps with advice and fresh ideas to maximize what space you have. Presenting storage solutions, using color and pattern, creating the illusion of space, editing possessions, and making walls disappear, this book shows exactly how to make the most of your home, whatever its size.