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How Not to Decorate

Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan

How Not to Decorate

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ISBN:
9780316731997
ISBN-10:
0-316-73199-4

Sphere

A Sphere title

Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan have saved hundreds of homes from style hell. Now you can follow their simple and effective advice and transform your own home. And while you’re at it you can laugh and shriek at all the ‘before’ pictures from their travels. Who said interior design had to be all work and no fun?

- Find out if you are a design diva or a design dodo

- Work out the best place for your collection of trolls*

- Learn the principles of colour coordination

- Become a style guru and watch your neighbours bow down before your genius

- Discover why peach is the work of Satan

Let Colin and Justin guide you - room by room - through everything that is bad, wrong, and just plain evil in interior design. Step away from the MDF and put down your stencil kit - it’s time to learn how NOT to decorate.

* the bin, of course

Reviews

  • ‘Our favourite design gurus Justin and Colin deliver a new book . . . As you’d expect, it’s chock-full of tips for righting interior design wrongs . . . packed full of practical tips for jazzing up your own home, plus Colin and Justin’s amusingly bitchy dialogue: what’s not to love?’ HEAT
  • ‘Essential reading . . . some fabulous pictures of the worst examples of “before” and “after” in a number of homes. It’s a coffee table book with a difference’ IRISH NEWS

Hardback: £15.99

Published 24/10/2005

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