Full-color photography illustrates detailed instructions for these quick and simple home decorating ideas. Easy now-sew techniques are combined with serger finishes, decorative threads, and simple sewing for all skill levels to create unique living spaces. Room-by-room examples describe window coverings, wall treatments, furniture and bed covers, pillows and accessories.
Customer Review: Very Useful
Of course the majority of the rooms are contemporary but there were a few that made me wonder. I saw a few rooms that I just wouldn't have classified as contemporary. I think this book did a GREAT job of defining and showing examples of many elements that make a room contemporary. There are so many decorating books that only offer great photos. This book taught you to identify contemporary items so that you could easily apply the information when you are selecting items for your own home.
Customer Review: Great Color and Styles!
This is an excellent source for ideas on color and style. There are both wonderful color pictures and commentary about decorating your home.
Pretty and practical, the baskets in this book come in a variety of decorative styles, from country-style woven baskets trimmed with roses, to bright and brassy Mexican varieties, to elegant cane baskets studded with tiny lights. Crafters find both the functional and the fanciful, from tiny storage baskets to a cushy dog bed. These ideal gifts, centerpieces, or accent baskets can be created in a single afternoon. 200 color photos show both step-by-step instructions and finished pieces.
A beautiful guide to creating the country look in your home, with practical decorating projects and ideas.
Simple, stylish projects will spark the imagination as designer Patti Sowers Uhiren continues to reveal the wonders of using flea maket finds to create great home décor. Filled with inventive techniques and gorgeous "before" and "after" photography.
Customer Review: Great under the cover ideas...
This little treasure will have you looking at cast off items with a more resouceful eye. Many of these items would not get a second glance but the author has found interesting ways to repurpose flea market or discarded items. The project on the front cover is an example of a creative way to use those small side boards once part of old dining room sets. I am a fan of stripes, so the small dressers done in wide stripes has great appeal as well as a playful side. The techniques suggested can be applied to a variety of objects not just the ones illustrated in the book. I can't wait to go out this week end and rescue some unloved objects and give them a new lease on life. Undoubtedly this book is a great find...one of the best for sparking new ideas for those low on cash but high on imagination.
Customer Review: Flea Market Finds: Before and After
Flea Market Finds: Before and After.
A great book for those who have things that they can makeower.
Many idees and very fine pictures.
I love it
Everyone knows the phrase "A man's home is his castle." Does that statement ring true even if:
You removed your bathroom door so you could watch TV from the commode?
The directions to your house include 'turn off the paved road'?
You spray painted your dead shrubbery green?
Any redneck will tell you that, of course, it is true. So whether you live in a double wide or have hit the big time with a ranch with one and a half baths, Redneck Extreme Mobile Home Makeover will make you laugh at the way some of us, I mean, some of you live such as:
You Might Be A Redneck if…
Your yard has ever been the proposed site for a landfill.
You think orange peels left on the coffee table are potpourri.
The garbage truck mistakenly takes your lawn furniture.
Someone knocks on your front door and your back door rattles.
Your most expensive piece of art is held up with thumbtacks.
You have to mow around a refrigerator and a bed frame.
Customer Review: Livin' Double In A Single-Wide
You don't really need to look too hard to find real life examples of these "Re-Do's". Just visit the Red Neck Riveara or "LA" (Lower Alabama some time.
Customer Review: Plastic Flamingos = You Might Be a Redneck!
Jeff Foxworthy continues his wildly successful and hilarious 'redneck' jokes with a new presentation even more effective than many of his others, REDNECK EXTREME MOBILE HOME MAKEOVER - complete with plastic flamingo on the cover. These are more 'you might be a redneck if' jokes, providing home-oriented comments many will relish and not a few will recognize.
Dozens of ideas for creating, designing and furnishing relaxing living areas outdoors.
Tips for using indoor design elements outdoors?including rich fabric mixes, complex color palettes, and lighting, art and architectural details.
Inspiring photos accompany instructive text to empower many to create and decorate their own outdoor living niches.
Chapters discuss living and dining areas, kitchens and baths, sleep, work and play areas, architectural elements, and decorative features.
Advice for buying products and technology?grills, lighting, fire pits, and fireplaces, to flooring materials, fabrics, furniture, and more.
For years, collecting antiques has been Barbara Ohrbach's favorite pastime. Cherchez, the elegant home furnishings shop she owned in New York City, reflected her exquisite taste and impeccable eye. In this very personal book, she gives practical advice about collecting and living with antique objects. As she says, all of these treasures from the past are what "give a room its personality and style and a house its soul.
"Antiques at Home is filled with more than 300 photographs of beautiful old objects and rooms, and provides a wonderful look at the world of collecting -- from flea markets to elegant stores. Ms. Ohrbach discusses many types of antiques, including ceramics, silver, and textiles. In each chapter, she interviews some of the most respected people in the antiques business and includes tips for what to look for when buying antiques and ideas on how to decorate with them. Each chapter ends with a special section on how to care for and preserve these objects.
Ms. Ohrbach shares her enthusiasm in searching for antiques and tells us where to find them in an international source guide that reveals her favorite antiques shops, fairs, markets, unusual museums, and historic homes. Decorative arts societies, reference books, decorating periodicals, and restorers are also listed.
Beautiful objects that were used and loved in everyday life in the past have become very special to us today. For everyone who has already discovered the warmth that old things bring to our homes, as well as for newcomers to collecting, this book will be a treasured guide.
Customer Review: -Collecting, Living and Decorating with Antiques-
For anyone looking for a beautiful and useful book about antiques, this is it. Barbara Milo Ohrbach has a wonderful way with words and her enthusiasm about the world of antiques is charming. I've owned this book for a number of years, and often refer to it when I want to know a specific terminology or when I'm checking out the care and treatment of a particular antique object. Because the author's writing style is so enjoyable, I always end up reading pages and pages of the book and learning more with each reading. ANTIQUES AT HOME is divided into eight chapters on the following topics: Ceramics-Wood- Silver- Textiles- Glass- Paper- A Personal View and The Collector's World. The photographs are beautiful and I've borrowed some of Ohrbach's ideas about how to display different collections. Most of us can't collect everything, but the lure of old and beautiful objects is contagious and the author communicates that love in her book. She calls it "a personal view" of antiques.
Customer Review: Living with antiques
"It is the loveliness of little things that imparts life to a room." This quote sums up the feeling of this wonderful book. It is filled with hints and tips on finding and caring for antiques and collectible. The joy of combing through flea markets looking for the next perfect addition to your collection is reflected in both text and pictures. The chapters cover ceramics, wood, silver, textiles, glass and paper. What ever makes your heart sing is covered in this book. A nice plus is an index listing of flea market and shop locations in both the United States and Europe. This is a book I go back to and read and look through time and time again, a keeper for your personal library.
Decorating with Funky Shui encourages you to dig out all those wild and crazy pieces you've been hiding. So c'mon, gather up all those snow globes and let the disco ball sparkle in your living room. Let your rooms tell people who you really are-if you dare.Your home should be a reflection of your own personality, not a hodgepodge of mass-produced whatnots from a "big-box" chain retail store. Inspired by the popular Chinese art of feng shui, this lighthearted book takes you through the "Fun-damentals," the four directions to make your house yours, all yours: Find the playful center of the room: It can be a random garage-sale treasure, that cool mannequin you didn't think you could find a place for, or the tarnished tuba you inherited from Grandpa. That one goofy, unusual, or chic conversation piece can become the star of your room. Brighten up with color: Not everything has to match your boring beige sofa. Rooms without color lack flavor. Enlighten up: Fun, dynamic lighting can brighten a room in more ways than one. Candles add coziness; Christmas lights sparkle year-round. A string of hot-pepper lights can spice up a cool room. Abundance through abundance: The souvenirs you pick up during road trips. Your collection of vintage milk-bottle caps. All the Pez dispensers you can't bear to part with. If you've got 'em, flaunt 'em. Artfully display your collections-whatever they may be-to show them off.Decorating with Funky Shui encourages you to stretch your imagination to find a style that's uniquely you.
Customer Review: Screw Feng Shui!
Are you tired of all those decorating books (and shows) that insist we must rid ourselves of all our treasured items that we've spent so much time collecting? I know I am. I've tried the whole feng shui thing and it just doesn't fit my personality. I'm through trying to fit the mold of some organized, bland, neat freak. It's just not going to happen. This is a lighthearted book with some really great photos. It's not meant to be a "real" decorating book, I think. It just reminds us to have fun with our beloved stuff. Lots of wide open space might be great for energy flow, but for some people,like me, the emptiness just leaves a cold feeling. If you feel the same way, then this is the book for you.
Customer Review: Funky, yes -- practical, no
Decorating with Funky Shui is a fun book, no doubt. It's fun to read and look at, and I was thoroughly entertained by the kitsch and the collectibles. But I have to say that beyond the few good ideas in the book, it's not a very practical decorating strategy for families with babies, small children, or rambunctious pets.
I love the idea that you can decorate with stuff you accumulate and can't toss out, but I can't see myself collecting so much stuff in clusters and having to dust my decor. Imagine the intricate work involved! And with pets, forget it.
In theory a great, fun book. In reality, only if you're single or not sharing a space and have the patience to clean all these objects and spaces.