Give your home a fresh new look. Lexie Barnes shows you how to quickly and inexpensively personalize your living space with 50 fun, pattern-free sewing projects that are highly adaptable and visually inspiring. Dramatic before-and-after photographs demonstrate how easy it is to brighten your living room with a custom-designed slipcover or give new life to a bedroom with a colorful headboard cover, lampshade, and matching window treatments. Get sewing and transform your home into the stylish abode you've always craved. Lexie Barnes, a self-taught designer and the creator of a successful line of women's handbags and accessories, is the author of Sew What! Bags and Sew Up a HomeMakeover. She brings her fun sense of style to every design she creates, and her craft bags have received rave reviews from BUST, Vogue Knitting, Adorn, and Knitty. Refresh Your Home with Fabulous Fabrics Beautiful fabrics and basic sewing skills elevate any room from tired to inspired in just a few hours. These fifty projects are inexpensive to make and easily customized to suit your taste and furniture proportions. Simple instructions -- some projects don't require sewing at all -- and complete materials lists will have you making everything from pillows and slipcovers for your sofa to lampshades and colorful art for your walls. You'll be delighted with the style and energy fabric can bring to your home. Chapter 1: Makeover Magic Style Function Comfort Inventory Budget Timeline Chapter 2: Fabrics and Tools Fabrics Notions and Tools Chapter 3: Tips and Techniques Basic Stitches Seams and Hems Bias Tape Pointers Zippers Embellishment and Trim Makeover Challenge #1: From Drab to Fab Chapter 4: Inviting Entryway Reupholstered Seat Fabric Tray Flirty Floor Mat Chapter 5: La Vida Lively (Living Room) Basket Liner Sofa Slipcover Stretched Canvas Art Envelope Pillow Butterfly Chair Cover Chapter 6: Sweet Dreams Bedroom Dreamy Duvet Cover Upholstered Headboard Roman Shade Bolster Pillows Japanese Yukata Robe Simple Slippers Makeover Challenge #2: Dressing the Table to Fit the Occasion Chapter 7: Tea for Two Reversible Place Mats Unlined Napkins Dish Towel Tea Cozy Chapter 8: Party On Beaded Table Skirt Lined Cocktail Napkins Roller Shade Goodie Bags Chapter 9: A Swell Affair Table Runner Chalkboard Napkin Rings or Place Cards Classic Apron M'octagonal Coasters Makeover Challenge #3: A Room that Grows Up (Along with the Kids) Chapter 10: Baby Mine Tulle Canopy Box Cushion Felt Mobile Improv Applique Blankie Chapter 11: Pee Wee Playhouse Bedtime Backdrop Night-Light Lamp Shade Cover Marshmallow Cushion Switch Plate Cover Chapter 12: Smells Like Tween Spirit Carefree Curtains Ravioli Floor Pillow Pom-Pom Pillow Hanging Caddy Makeover Challenge #4: One Space, Three Functions Chapter 13: Executive Suite Memo Board Journal Cover Mobile Office Tote Fabric-Covered Wastebasket Chapter 14: Vanity Fair Jewelry Display Wristlet Pouch Pinwheel Tray "My Precious" Ring Box Chapter 15: Craft Atelier Canvas Coffee Cans Artist's Sling Sewing Machine Cover Utilitarian Table Cover Resources Index With a sewing machine and fabric, plus a few household tools (scissors and tape measure, for two), anyone, claims self-taught designer-author Barnes, can make over a chair, a table, or a room

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