This is a copy of THE PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GOOD DECORATING & HOME IMPROVEMENT was authored by Greystone Press, and published and distributed in 1971 by Meredith Corporation and Greystone Press. This hardcover book with dust jacket is Xx pages in length and measures xx. See photos for condition.

Here, at your fingertips, is the most comprehensive and complete encyclopedia on home decorating and improvement ever assembled. In its pages, you will discover how to make your home or apartment more beautiful, more comfortable, more livable - without trial and error, without costly mistakes, without straining your budget.

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The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement shows you how to save money in every area of home decorating and improvement.

From the first entry right through the last, this encyclopedia tells you hundreds of ways to cut costs and buy wisely.

Over 60 expert interior designers, artists, architects, writers and photographers spent years developing their skills. Until now this material has been reserved for private clients and large industrial firms. Now it is available in the pages of The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement. More than 4,000 photographs are used to show you the basics of good decorating and the how-to of home improvement. Easy to follow, easy to understand, your encyclopedia offers step-by-step instructions on how to create the home of your dreams.

Here's how to use color, what window arrangements to use, where to add on that extra room, how to save money picking one fabric over another, and literally hundreds of other action-packed ideas to help you make the most of your decorating and home improvement dollars.

Of course, your encyclopedia is more than just a money-saver. You'll soon discover that few things in life are more satisfying or rewarding than decorating or remodeling your home. Here you have the work and ideas of famous interior designers and architects on which you can draw to help you create a home that is distinctively and uniquely your own. Your encyclopedia is designed to help guide you in developing good taste and discrimination, to build confidence in your judgment, to let your imagination have free rein, and most important - to let you express your individuality in and through your home.

Alphabetically arranged and fully illustrated, your Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement has been planned for your convenience and immediate use. In feature articles you will find a wealth of facts, ideas, suggestions, and advice that will help you solve your decorating problems. A Master/Guide at the back of each volume includes concise articles of historical interest, definitions of terms, and summaries of feature articles in 1 fin the volume. Helpful cross-references appear throughout all volumes. On many pages you will find illustrations and descriptions of Project Plans and Home Plans, identified by the abbreviations PP and HP.

DESIGNERS AND DECORATORS
CONTRIBUTING TO THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Allison Ethyl Alper, AID
Rose Aronin, NSID
Don Bailey, AID
Lee Bailey
Sidney Blackard
Lee Blake
David Blumenthal
Ann Bolitski
Milton A. Botterill, AID
Roger Bracy, AID
Jack Brant, Ltd Rhonda Bright, AID
Everett Brown, FAID
Yale R. Burge, NSID
Arthur Burke
William Busam, AID
Stephen Chase
Rosanne Clark
George Cody
Joseph Copp, Jr.
Meanette Coppes, NSID
James corder
Luis Cordano,
AID
Jini Costello, AID
Marvin Culbreth, AID NSID
william Denier,
AID
George Doan, Ald Angelo Donghia Allyn Dunkin
Mrs. Yardley Elder, AID
John Elmo, AID
Arthur Elrod, AID
James Fisher
Carla Flood, AID
Lenore Friedman, NSID
Keith Gasser
Dorian Grant
Ed San Gregorl
Les Grodsky
Kenneth Harder
Al Herbert
Richard Himmel
Harold Holtz
Jon-Thomas, Inc.
RoY Kliop.
Pone Keenan, NSID
Corrine Arisel
Martin Kuckly
Evelyn Leroy, NSID
Robert Lindenthal, NSID
Lioson Incerors
J. Frederick Lohman, AID
John Lombardi Betty Lotz, AID
Tom Mallory
Shirley Marks, NSID
William E. Mathers. AID
Ellen McClusky, FAID
William McNutt, AID
Robert Melin
Lee Merban Assoc.
Kitty Mercer, AID
warren moen
James Childs Morse, AID
Edmund Motyka, AiD Harry Nardi Mark Nelson Bernard Nusinow, AID
Davis Parry
Dorothy Paul, AID
Lawrence Peabody
Albert Pensis, AID
James E. Peterson, AID
Raymond Platti
Barbara Pinsof
Joseph Potter, AID
•ey Price
Mabel Rea
Shirley Regendahl
L. Jarmon Roach, AID
Helen Rosenthal
Lynn Rotblatt, NSID
AID
Ethel Samuels, NSID
Agatha Schienbrun, AID
Nelyan ociver severs a van chren
Gerald Siegwart
Leroy Small
Charlotte Smith
Morley B. Smith
Lewis Solloway
Rita St. Clair
C.
Stephenson, AID
J. Neil Stevens, NSID
Myrtle
• Todes
Gerald Tomlin, AID
Donald Weber, AID
Sally Welch
Herbert Wells
Sandy White
Cell Williams, AID
Randall Williams
Don Williams
Tom Woods, AID
Eugenia Serios Dean
Howard Miller
William Leonard, NSID
David Barrett
Alan Patt, NSID
Ving Smith

ARCHITECTS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Irving M. Addis
Stanley Anderson
Assoc.
Harry Bates
William Bernondy, AID
J. Donald Bowman
Joel Brand ick Bruck
Robert A. Burley
Harold Buttrick
Frank W. Cauley
Edward Diehl
Associates
Edward H. Fickett, AIA
John L. Field
Knox Griffin
Karl Humphrey
J. William limanen
Raymond F. Johnson
William Krisel, AIA
Richard M. Kruse
Ernest Mandel
Wayne R. Nordgren
Franklin Paul
Olga Paul
Harry Randson
Don Reiman, AlA
George B. Roberts
Richard W. Searc
Isadore Shank, AlA
Norma Ufer
Lester Wertheimer. AIA
Jon Winkelstein, AlA

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