Using fabrics is one of the most enjoyable and easy ways to transform your home. Whether your favorite style is relaxed or sophisticated, traditional or modern, urban or rural, fabrics can help you to create a look that is individual, comfortable, and effortlessly chic. Kate French and Katherine Sorrell present imaginative ideas for every room--even for unexpected spaces such as bathrooms, home offices, and outdoor areas. They ook at how to use color, texture, and pattern, and how to choose the right fabric for the function for which it is needed. *Learn how, with a little confidence and flair, you can employ fabrics in all sorts of exciting ways to express your personality and inject achievable, enviable style into your living space. *Innovative ideas range from using barley sacks for bedlinen to converting wartime sleeping bags into floor cushions. *Includes 250 beautiful photographs by Lisa Cohen, many taken in the homes of internationally acclaimed designers and experts in home furnishings.