Ethan Allen's New American Style: Stage-By-Stage Decorating for Your Home

by Ethan Allen Furniture

Presents ideas for creating living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bedroooms, bathrooms, and outdoor rooms that reflect personal visions, allow for changes and variations, and fit budgets and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609601563
• ISBN13: 9780609601563
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Some realistic decorating ideas.

This book has beautiful photographs, and incorporates a wide variety of styles. Nearly each page provides a decorating tip, which I think would be useful to those just starting out. I imagine that most of the furniture items photographed are Ethan Allen pieces although they aren't specifically mentioned as such. However there are many that aren't. Antiques and garage sale pieces are mentioned, and the reader is encouraged to find non-conventional items to add to the decorating. So I regard this book as more than just a glorified catalog.

Much More than a Catalog

I just bought my second copy of this book, after giving my first to a friend. In contrast to the first reviewer, I found this book very helpful. Although it's true that the photographs in this book show furniture by Ethan Allen, the text never mentions their products specifically. It does lay out a very realistic 1-2-3 approach to decorating that allows you to make progress without breaking your budget. It shows you how to start with the basics and layer on the style as your checkbook allows, without the room ever looking or feeling or half-done. I own quite a few books on home decorating and this is one of the more practical and useful ones on my bookshelf.