Accolades
LDB Interior Textiles magazine October 2009
Can't Fail Window Treatments, book review by Wanda Jankowski
Keep Can't Fail Window Treatments in your store for use by sales associates
as a visual reference while working with customers, use it as a promotional
tool by gifting it to best customers or stock it for general sale.
Read it HERE.
designNJ, design à la carte, August/September 2009
Can't Fail Window Treatments, book review
Nancee Brown, an interior designer in New Jersey and member of the American
Society of Interior Designers, collaborated with architectural photographer
Melabee M. Miller to create this inspirational guide to window treatments.
The book is filled with colorful photographs and examples that will help you
understand why window treatments are important and which types of applica-
tions work for different window styles. Hard-to-fit windows and choosing hard-
ware are among the myriad topics covered.
Rutgers Alumni News Online "Off the Shelf"
Can’t
Fail Window Treatments
By Nancee
Brown; photography by Melabee Miller NCAS’68
This how-to guide helps homeowners with both “inspiration and
installation”
of various creative window treatments. Miller’s 200-plus photos combine
with Brown’s design notes and budgeting tips to showcase a fabulous array
of looks and styles, from glorious and extravagant to simple and sophisticated.
The New Jersey Chapter ASID Insider, Spring 2009
Book Review The Printed Word....
Read about Can't Fail Window Treatments and how it came about with
quotes from author, Nancee Brown, and photographer, Melabee M Miller and
find out many ASID designers are featured in it.
Mary
Hausman
of Dwellings, LLC
Picked
up my copy of "Can't fail....." book looks great, love my
contribution.
Eileen
Watkins,
Editor, The Record, North Jersey Homes
Letter
From the Editor
“
The What’s in Store column announces a new book on window treatments
by
two New Jersey
design professionals, interior
designer/author Nancee Brown
and
photographer Melabee M. Miller. You’ve
occasionally seen Melabee’s
excellent
photos in North Jersey Homes.
Creators
Syndicate “Décor Score” columnist
received
on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2009
My
copy arrived this morning, many thanks,
and
I have been dancing an Irish jig ever since....
There
are a number of terrific photos (no surprise!)
Meanwhile,
blare of trumpets and roll of drums: it's a tour de force
guaranteed to take most of the, ahem, pane out of decorating windows!
Tish Leizens, Publisher & Editor, OurHouse Magazine
Beautiful photography.
PM Galvin, Customer review, Amazon.com 5.0 out of 5 stars
I have to admit that I considered the term window treatments
as a little bit of a euphemism for curtains and drapes. I stand corrected.
After purchasing this book to find some ideas, I ended up with a better
knowledge of the terminology, an understanding of how interior designers
approach
dressing a window, and the ideas I was looking for.
Not just all about perfect rooms with perfect décor, the book shows a few
before and after images as well as including an entire section on unusual or
problem windows. A few words about the pictures... there are oodles of them
and they show more than just the windows. The window treatments are always
discussed in terms of the whole space and never treated as a lone wall with a
window
or French door.
I gave this five stars for the photos and the successful execution of the
book's
intent to educate and inspire. Any drawbacks? Not if you understand that this
book isn't going to show you how to make curtains. The book is like a collection
of room tours with great ideas that can get you thinking beyond a piece of
fabric with a pocket to put a curtain rod through.
Jeff Weber, Courier News, Home & Garden, Senior Reporter
The best way to sum up Miller's work -- in the book and with her other ventures,
which include not only photography but also art cubes and floorcloths --is through
a snippet of "Can't Fail Window Treatments."
In the section about "Why Window Treatments Are Important," Brown writes:
"When they (windows) are dressed properly, windows can be commanding --
outlining a beautiful view or making a design or architectural statement."
"It's how you best display anything," Miller says. "Take it from its natural form and
make it look its best without changing it, especially when what is already there is
already beautiful."
Purchase a copy below or at your local bookstore.
Click on Amazon.com to purchase now.
