COORDINATED FABRICS MAKE DECORATING PROCESS EASY

Whether you're starting out on a decorating odyssey, without previous experience, or you are seeking inspiration to revitalize the decoration of your home, there are many resources at your fingertips that may literally be around the corner. A visit to Fabricland of North Plainfield and Nassaus Window Fashions of Paramus provides lots of ideas -- for ready-made products, custom-made or do-it-yourself projects.

The stores' "Waverly Lifestyles" department is a great place to begin. Here, you can select from a large assortment of ready-made bedding, pillows and coordinating window treatments -- all created in a mixture of correlating fabrics and patterns. Waverly wallcoverings and fabric by the yard are also available to finish off your decorating projects and unify your rooms. If you can't find the pattern you love in the ready-made department, check out Waverly's Luxury Custom Collection. This program includes twenty-five different bedroom ensembles -- featuring comforters, duvets, bedskirts, shams, draperies, valances and tablecovers that can be ordered and custom-made to fit your exact room measurements.

The beautiful assortment of fabrics -- which have as many as five coordinated companion prints available with each style -- creates a real designer look in your room for a fraction of the cost.

In addition to creating a beautiful bedroom with Waverly's correlating fabrics, the store carries a large assortment of home furnishings for your living room, family room and kitchen. In the "Lifestyles" department, you can also select placemats, napkins, tableclothes and cushions -- all in color and pattern-coordinated fabrics, many richly trimmed with braiding and cord , that work together to create a harmonious "flow" from room to room.

If you are a home sewer, you can choose from the Waverly fabrics in stock to complete your decorating project . What makes these fabrics so special is that they are displayed together on racks according to their correlating color and pattern -- so you can easily visualize how to combine stripes, florals, checks, plaids and small prints and create a unified look in your home.

To inspire you and get you started on your decorating adventures, Fabricland and Nassaus Window Fashions has a series of free seminars each week for those who want to learn more about the decorating process and get ideas for "do-it-yourself" window treatment projects.

Fabricland is located at 855 Route 22 in North Plainfield, www.fabricland.com., 908-755-4700, Nassaus is located at 450 Route 17 North in Paramus, www.nassaus.com , 201-261-3500. To obtain listings of free events for each store, call Cathy Guterman, public relations director at 908-755-4700 Ext. 107.