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Custom Slipcovers Made Easy: Weekend Projects to Dress Up Your Decor

Includes projects for fashion-conscious sewers who like to be creative and save money using yard sale treasures to mimic expensive designer originals. Helps sewers achieve a customized, and upholstered look with slipcovers. Custom Slipcovers Made Easy features a range of stylish projects to create seasonal “clothing” for furniture that is as practical and durable as grandma’s slipcovers. Simple instructions and illustrated techniques enable even first time sewers to learn a new ski

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Coastal Style: Home Decorating Ideas Ispired by Seaside Living

Coastal Style is a magnificent celebration of simple shoreside life. Featuring hundreds of fabulous photographs of homes around the world, it covers all aspects of decorative seaside style—from the creation of light and breezy rooms to the selection of simple furniture and furnishings that echo the natural beauty of the surf and sand. Also featured are tips on the best fabrics to use—from nautical stripes to cool cotton canvas—and advice on coastal colors, from shades of oyster gray to bol

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6 responses to “Custom Slipcovers Made Easy: Weekend Projects to Dress Up Your Decor Reviews”

  1. B. J. Weir Avatar
    B. J. Weir
    33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Great Learning book, January 18, 2009
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    B. J. Weir (Joliet, IL) –
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    This review is from: Custom Slipcovers Made Easy: Weekend Projects to Dress Up Your Decor (Hardcover)

    I have been doing upholstery for myself for years, learned from my Mom, and by doing it myself. I learned many new ways of doing things from this book, that makes it much easier. I’d recommend it to anyone who is a DIY . Enjoy, it will save you a fortune!

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  2. Happy Mom Avatar
    Happy Mom
    28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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    Easy to understand, May 8, 2010
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    Happy Mom (GA) –

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    This review is from: Custom Slipcovers Made Easy: Weekend Projects to Dress Up Your Decor (Hardcover)

    I bought both this book and Neubauer’s Complete Photo Guide to Slipcovers (CPGS). I prefer this one.

    Custom Slipcovers Made Easy is in a spiral binding inside. The outside is hardcover. You can open the book to the page you want to work from, and it will stay open and flat. I love that.

    The pictures offer easy directions. Measuring is done on real chairs, muslin covers have dotted lines to show you what to look at, layout directions are shown as are fabric repeats, directions are given for unusually shaped chairs, creative finishes are explained, and the end result is tailored.

    The appendix is full of charts to fill in for your particular chair. Charts cover furniture dimensions, cutting chart for shell/cushions/skirts, layout graphs for various fabric widths, yardage yield for bias, and shopping lists. The author even suggests photocopying these.

    Additionally, the author writes as though she is speaking to you. The book reads as friendly rather than as a textbook. She encourages you and makes you feel that you will be successful.

    Need more information about the author’s skills? She writes for Threads, the penultimate sewing magazine IMO.

    I may check out CPGS on occasion, but this is the book I will really use.

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  3. Theresa D. Jameson Avatar
    Theresa D. Jameson
    11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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    Great book for beginners like me, August 8, 2010
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    This review is from: Custom Slipcovers Made Easy: Weekend Projects to Dress Up Your Decor (Hardcover)

    The directions and photos are very simple and easy to use. This is the perfect book for me as a beginner!

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    endless summer
    21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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    Good basic, but sophisticated beach home ideas, May 10, 2008
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    endless summer (Boston, Ma) –

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    This review is from: Coastal Style: Home Decorating Ideas Ispired by Seaside Living (Hardcover)

    This is a good book on the basics of how to decorate a coastal home. For the novice in “beachy” decor or the landlubber who craves a coastal look in their landlocked home, it gives general information about paint colors, lighting, accessories, furniture choices, utilizing the natural beauty of the ocean view, and use of a variety of textures to enhance the seaside home. The photography is superb, but i found the colors atonal and drab at times and the distressed furniture and “shabby chic” look somewhat boring and unappealing. The authors’ tone is quite sophisticated and they seem to write with a definite European sensibility and flair.

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  5. SVerity "Sarah" Avatar
    SVerity “Sarah”
    4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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    Inspirational Resourse & Coffee Table Book, November 15, 2009
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    SVerity “Sarah” (Sydney Australia) –

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    This review is from: Coastal Style: Home Decorating Ideas Ispired by Seaside Living (Hardcover)

    I have seen this book in many exclusive homeware stores throughout Sydney [Australia] at quite a high mark up – so was easily tempted to purchase on Amazon with competitive pricing and AUD being quite good at the time. Overall this book is both an inspirational & aspirational book. It can easily sit comfortably on a coffee table or – as in my case in my design library as a resource to refer to for pure visual & wordsmith candy. I enjoyed looking through this book – however if you are thinking with will give you a blow-by-blow directive on how to set up a Coastal style – this is not the book for you – this is at a higher interpretive aesthetic level. All the same an incredibly gorgeous book and one worth adding to your library. Enjoy.

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    LynMac “LynMac”
    4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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    Beachy Style, March 30, 2009
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    LynMac “LynMac” (Pittsburgh, PA United States) –

    This review is from: Coastal Style: Home Decorating Ideas Ispired by Seaside Living (Hardcover)

    This book is just what I’ve been looking for. I love beach-style living and decorating and this book delivers. Full of beautiful photos and great ideas on how to have this look in anyone’s home.

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