The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments


Book Description

The most comprehensive DIY window book on the market The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments makes it easy to choose and construct today's most popular window treatments - 20 styles of valances, swags, and cornices; 20 styles of curtains and draperies; plus 10 types of window shades. Room photographs show each style in a variety of decorating styles, fabrics, and hardware. Each project has step-by-step instructions from beginning to end: measuring the window, cutting the fabric with confidence, sewing or constructing the project, and installing the treatment the professional way. Over 500 how-to photographs and diagrams make it easy to have professional results. This is the big book of DIY window treatments!




The Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies


Book Description

The only curtains book with the current styles and step-by-step, photographed instructions. The Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies makes it easy to choose and construct today's most popular window treatments. Color photographs present twenty styles in a variety of room settings, fabrics, trims, and decorative hardware, then show how to DIY. The projects include tailored, romantic, and contemporary curtains and formal draperies with all styles of pleats. There are step-by-step instructions from start to finish: measuring the window, calculating yardage, cutting, sewing, and installing. Following in the tradition of CPi's best-sellingWindows with Style and Creative Window Treatments, Complete Photo Guide to Curtains and Draperies is an indispensable part of an all-new series of window decor books.







Singer(R) Sewing Custom Curtains, Shades, and Top Treatments


Book Description

From planning the project to sewing and installing the finished product, this book teaches readers how to create beautiful, professional-looking window treatments for their homes.




The Complete Book of Curtains, Drapes, and Blinds


Book Description

Shares hundreds of ideas for dressing up windows, in a guide that provides for a variety of types, includes scan-ready sample board sketches, and explains the correct procedures for measuring.




Illustrated Guide to Sewing Home Furnishings


Book Description

With the expert sewing techniques shared in this book, anyone can create home-made soft furnishings with a designer's flair.




Complete Book of Window Treatments & Curtains


Book Description

A guide to a variety of curtain styles, from ruffled country curtains to formal swags and jabots.




The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments, 2nd Edition


Book Description

Window treatments have tremendous impact on your home’s décor. Considering how much space window treatments take up, their color and pattern have as much or more influence over the decorating scheme of the room as the furnishings, wall décor, and artwork. The ambiance of the room is reflected in the style of the window treatment, from casual fabric roller shades to formal pinch-pleated draperies and lots of choices in between. This book includes projects for creating these window treatments: Freeform scarf swag Flip topper Lined rectangle valance Rod-pocket valance Upholstered cornices







The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments, 2nd Edition


Book Description

The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments, Second Edition is the most comprehensive book of its kind on the market, offering the reader both inspiring location photography plus step-by-step instructions for making 50 different projects. Window treatments include several curtain styles, formal draperies, swags, valances, cornices, various Roman shades, and roller shades. Designed for the DIY home sewer, this book is also valued by professional workrooms and trade schools because it teaches professional methods for measuring, sewing, and installing window treatments. Now updated with new photography and the latest window treatment styles, this second edition is a must-have for any DIY home sewer.