Today’s homes have to play more roles than ever before. We crave sanctuary in the bedroom, luxury in the bathroom, efficiency with style in the kitchen, a home office that doesn’t feel like a place of work, and we may want a garden to double as a living and dining room. Each room has individual challenges, as well as common requirements such as flooring and lighting. "Home Design Ideas" is an invaluable guide to designing, decorating, and furnishing every room of your home. Whether it’s a kitchen floor or finishing touches for the bedroom you need, here is advice from Caroline Clifton-Mogg, Joanna Simmons, and Rebecca Tanqueray. • With more than 700 color photographs to inspire you, combined with expert advice, "Home Design Ideas" will help you to create a beautiful home that is perfect for the way you live. • Essential tips and ideas that work for every home, from a studio apartment to a rural farmhouse....

Caroline Clifton-Mogg guides you through every aspect of using color in the home, from choosing the right scheme for each room to adding the perfect finishing touches. She provides inspiration from nature, art, and history and explores color in depth, delving into the nuances of the interior decorator's palette. She shows a wide range of classic and unusual looks--sometimes subtle and chic, sometimes bold and humurous. The book also offers advice on using colors to create the atmosphere you want or to affect the shape or size of a room. You can also learn how to select the right paints, and apply decorative finishes and textiles to cover your walls. - An invaluable resource whether you are planing a whole new look or simply remodeling an existing scheme. - Evocative photography by Alan Williams....

In French Country Living, Caroline Clifton-Mogg celebrates the distinctive decorative style inspired over centuries by the French countryside, and shows how to translate its elements into your home, whether rustic or urban. • More than 30,000 copies sold in hardcover. • Beautiful photography by Christopher Drake....

Italy is an historical country, where the past is always present. This is well illustrated in the rural interior style, which borrows and adapts from other eras and places, editing and refining as it goes, but culminating in a look that is chic, original, and always easy to live with. In Italian Country Living, Caroline Clifton-Mogg explores the essential ingredients of the style, taking in color and texture—the distinctively clear but subtle palette — before looking at the mixture of simplicity and comfort evident in furniture and fabrics, and going on to admire the innate gift of the Italians for living outside with the same panache as they do indoors. Caroline then looks in more detail at individual country houses. Whether Rustic, Contemporary, Eclectic, or Traditional in character, these homes offer myriad ideas for interior decoration that are easily translatable into other lives and cultures. • Stunning photography by Chris Tubbs....

"Accessorize Your Home" provides hundreds of ideas for affordable finishing touches that will enhance the elegance and individuality of your home. Caroline Clifton-Mogg looks at the principles of display and arrangement, of the importance of scale, and how to edit your possessions so they make the maximum impact, in chapters including Pictures, Mirrors, and Other Wall Art, Flowers and Plants, Soft Furnishings, China and Glass, and Living (encompassing Living with Books, Mantelpieces, and Fireplaces, and Lighting). Finally, there is a chapter exploring Decorative Collections. From hanging pictures to arranging quirky collections, from displaying textiles to making the most of mantelpieces, she shows you how to display items in an attractive way, how to combine different pieces to best effect, and how to create focal points in a room. *Caroline proves that genuinely stylish interiors do not have to cost a fortune; it is the way items are displayed that brings them to life. *Over 400 ideas for adding finishing touches to your home with confidence and flair. *Beautifully illustrated with more than 300 inspiring photographs....