Ribbons and Trims: 100 Ideas for Personalizing Your Home

By Annabel Lewis

Book Overview

Refresh. Restore. Reinvent. From curtains, blinds, bedcovers, and furniture to cushions, throws, lampshades, and photo frames-- absolutely any item in your home can be updated, customized, and given a fresh new look, simply and easily. In Ribbons and Trims, Annabel Lewis, founder of Europe's famous ribbons and trimmings company, V. V. Rouleaux, provides a wealth of ideas and step-by-step projects for ways to decorate and embellish items all around the home. This unique and creative guide offers simple techniques for making accessories like tassels, knots, braids, flowers, and tiebacks, as well as 25 projects with clear instructions for creating pieces that are upholstered with ribbon or trimmed with feathers, shells, beads, or buttons. There are also inspiring ideas for every room in the home--whether it's embellishing your entryway walls with stripes of elegant grosgrain ribbon, decorating a dining table with customized place card holders or dressing your everyday coat hangers in luscious ribbon remnants. Illustrated with gorgeous color photographs and peppered with inventive ideas and tips sure to inspire both the beginner crafter and the expert home decorator alike, Ribbons and Trims will help you to elevate your home decor to new heights.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307347613
• ISBN13: 9780307347619
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Potter Craft
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

purchase if you like unique european decorating tips

The author regularly works with fashion and interior designers. If you need fresh ideas on how to use ribbons and trim check out the 1st 55 pages. The choices of mixture in colors and fabrics are definitely unique. I would not consider her designs mainstream America however if you are looking for unusual ways to decorate your home artistically this is the book for you. The ideas she comes up with what to do with ribbon and trim and where to use them in your home are definitely out of the box. Such as, around the fireplace mantle, next to crown molding, under chair railing, on benches, as a paint design on walls and on stairwalk carpeting. She is very creative with doorstops, laundry baskets, towels, table lamps pillows, curtains, drapes and tiebacks.