House Beautiful Bedrooms

It is the most intimate room in the house & the most private, a place for rest & relaxation, reflection & romance. How we choose to decorate our bedroom says much about our dreams & ourselves. It is with this in mind that the editors of House Beautiful present this addition to the Great Style series, a volume filled with design & decorating ideas for every taste & mood: bucolic or urbane, restrained or exuberant, utterly feminine or solidly masculine. In these pages, a country home bedroom is treated to gilded elegance; a Manhattan apartment takes on the sunniness of a summer beach house; a Connecticut colonial becomes a snug, private getaway. Achieving all these looks starts with careful attention to the basics of wall, floor, & window treatments. House Beautiful Bedrooms examines the various choices & offers advice, in text & photography, on how to make the most of the resources available. Suggestions for furniture come next, from bed styles to mixing looks & adding pieces originally intended for other rooms. And because the bedroom should be the best-dressed one in the house, a chapter is devoted to bed linens & fabrics. Ideas for using finishing touches to create unique & highly personal spaces round out this design portfolio. With more than one hundred beautiful photographs & advice from professional designers throughout the country, House Beautiful Bedrooms puts the room of one's dreams within everyone's reach.