Discovering your natural style takes you beyond the colors and textures of nature into the heart of each season's personality and mood. Which season are you? Style by Nature helps you find your true decorating self and shows you how to bring that spirit to every room in the house.

Nature, the source of inspiration for painters, poets, and composers, also holds the key to your decorating style. Each season has its own mood, captured in a palette of colors, textures, and motifs. Each season also has its own distinctive personality - romantic, boisterous, gregarious, or contemplative. Better Homes and Gardens, Style by Nature helps you identify the season or seasons that best express who you are and shows you how to infuse your home with soul-satisfying character.

Study the style profiles and take the quiz to learn more about your seasonal affinities. Are you a romantic spring type or a hearth-loving autumn personality? Are you drawn to the playful spirit of summer or to the contemplative mood of winter? Then immerse yourself in photos filled with decorating ideas. Each chapter offers inspiration and advice for ways to bring the special personality of the season to every room in the house. Learn how to create color schemes and how to choose fabrics and wallcoverings with confidence. Discover how to choose and arrange furniture and accessories to establish your seasonal style. In each chapter, Style Points offer quick ideas for bringing the season's character to living rooms, tabletops, bedrooms, and baths.

As a special bonus, the Project Primer at the end of the book provides step-by-step instructions for 24 window treatments - six ways to dress your windows to evoke the look and spirit of each season.

For nearly 80 years, Better Homes and Gardens magazine has provided readers with decorating inspiration and information, using real homes to illustrate achievable results. Style by Nature shows you how to draw timeless lessons from a time-tested source, nature herself.

Rebecca Jerdee is a writer and designer living in Des Moines, Iowa. Author of Redecorate Your Home the Lazy Way and Fabric Appliqu é for Worship, she served as interior designer at Better Homes and Gardens magazine for eight years.