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Flea Market Decorating: Creating Style with Vintage Finds (Better Homes and Gardens Books)

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Manufacturer: Better Homes and Gardens

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Do-it-yourself decorators will discover creative inspiration in this book, along with smart shopping tips and easy-to-follow guidelines for giving a room unique character and personality with vintage finds.

Practical flea-market shopping advice.

Hundreds of illustrated ideas for decorating with vintage finds, room by room.

275 inspiring color photos of homes and rooms featuring creative decorating ideas.

Easy how-to for evaluating, salvaging, and refurbishing finds.

Favorite flea markets and antique fairs around the country.

Internet antiques-shopping tips, including the best sites for auctions, on-line antique malls, and state-by-state flea market guides.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 747
EAN: 9780696208829
ISBN: 0696208822
Label: Better Homes and Gardens
Manufacturer: Better Homes and Gardens
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2000-03-15
Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens
Studio: Better Homes and Gardens


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Decorating JunkMarket Style
• Flea Market Style
• Creating Vintage Style: Stylish Ideas & Step-by-step Projects
• Junk Style
• The Salvage Sisters' Guide to Finding Style in the Street and Inspiration in the Attic


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

A keeper! -
A very inspiring book which I go back to frequently still, after owning it for more than 2 yrs. It shows you that you don't need a lot of money to create interesting, even funky but cool, rooms. I especially like the how-to restoration section toward the back of the book. This is a great book to keep on your shelf for inspiration and quick how-to information. It's simply fun!

Good ideas -
I enjoyed reading the book, it has several good photos of ideas used. It validates my decorating scheme!

Check it out of the library before buying -
I agree the rusty chair/furniture and hospital guerny are not very appealing. This book is good for little tips and odds and ends but not as good as Better Homes "Cottage Style" book which I have to say is THE BEST. I am glad I checked it out of the library before I bought it. It went a little to over the top on the shabby chic/flea market look for me not very elegant. The pictures are good because of professional photos but I bet if you were in a home filled with some of this stuff it could end up looking a little too flea-ish. Check it out first at the library.

Chic yet fun -
As a graduate design student, I am impressed with the quality of the rooms shown in this book. Very chic yet simple. Unlike some books on this topic, this one is filled with smart, chic, sensible, stylish ideas for how to repurpose flea market finds. There's nothing junky or throwaway about the ideas in this book.

What a disappointment! -
I should have checked this out at a bookstore before I ordered it - I saw the 5 stars and went by that.
This book has nothing new to offer. And I do not see the attraction of using a hospital gurney for a bathroom vanity or stacking your towels on a rusty old garden chair. Actually, that is disgusting.
Yes, the photography is wonderful. But I've seen much better information ...
Save your money, or at least check it out a bookstore first.

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