Fix Your Home
Turn Your Pad into a Palace
Published on 9. March 2017
Book
Hardback
112 pages
978-1-910232-55-2 (ISBN)
Description
A stylish, practical guide to making your home beautiful and keeping it in tip-top condition, aimed at young urban professionals.
A stylish, practical guide to making your home beautiful and keeping it in tip-top condition.
Fix Your Home is an illustrated little guide to decorating and maintaining your home, aimed at young urban professionals who have just moved into their first flat. With no-nonsense writing and straightforward step-by-step instructions, it gives you all the basic home maintenance information you'll ever need, including putting up shelves, hanging pictures, wallpapering a room, saving energy and when to admit defeat and get the professionals in. On top of that, it contains a wealth of inspiration for decorating your abode on a shoestring, from window treatments to flooring to stylish home offices. Read this book and you'll be able to get all your home's little eccentricities under control, leaving you to get on with living your busy and exciting life
Word count: 15,000
A stylish, practical guide to making your home beautiful and keeping it in tip-top condition.
Fix Your Home is an illustrated little guide to decorating and maintaining your home, aimed at young urban professionals who have just moved into their first flat. With no-nonsense writing and straightforward step-by-step instructions, it gives you all the basic home maintenance information you'll ever need, including putting up shelves, hanging pictures, wallpapering a room, saving energy and when to admit defeat and get the professionals in. On top of that, it contains a wealth of inspiration for decorating your abode on a shoestring, from window treatments to flooring to stylish home offices. Read this book and you'll be able to get all your home's little eccentricities under control, leaving you to get on with living your busy and exciting life
Word count: 15,000
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
369 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910232-55-2 (9781910232552)
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Jane Moseley and Jackie Strachan are the doyennes of DIY. They both have long experience of fixing things and home decoration, and are the authors of Fix Your Bike, Fix Your Garden, Fix Your Home, and Household Management for Men Jane lives in Lewes, East Sussex, and Jackie lives in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
Born in France, Claire Rollet has lived in the UK most of her life. London is her home now, and she loves cycling around the city taking in its various cultures and landmarks. She works from a studio at the bottom of her garden. In terms of her process, first of all, Claire works out a composition and some ideas for the image using quick sketches to show to the client. She then creates a line drawing in Indian ink, then works on the colour digitally.
Born in France, Claire Rollet has lived in the UK most of her life. London is her home now, and she loves cycling around the city taking in its various cultures and landmarks. She works from a studio at the bottom of her garden. In terms of her process, first of all, Claire works out a composition and some ideas for the image using quick sketches to show to the client. She then creates a line drawing in Indian ink, then works on the colour digitally.