Flea Market Decorating: Creating Style with Vintage Finds

By: Better Homes and Gardens Editors

Book Overview

Hundreds of illustrated ideas for decorating with vintage finds, room by room. Easy how-to for evaluating, salvaging, and refurbishing finds. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0696208822
• ISBN13: 9780696208829
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.4" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

I LOVE THIS BOOK!

This one will be in my library for years to come! It was one of my first decorating book purchases, and since our funds are tight and our style rustic cabin eclectic, it seemed like it would apply. And it has! I have drawn many practical ideas from the pages of this book on how to "re-purpose" items to creatively use thrift finds for attractive storage, decoration and more. I found the "how to" section on cleaning, fixing, and caring for thrift items very helpful. I fully enjoyed going through the 8 or so homes that they took us through and I found it refreshing that a bunch of them were quite small (what I can afford) and NOT CLUTTERED with junk. Instead, they cleverly and neatly displayed collections and really didn't pack the houses with too much STUFF. Not every room was my style, of course, (one can never expect that) but I recommend this book to people who like to create an attractive and interesting home with neat old stuff. Especially for do-it-yourselfers.I'm not a big reader, but I read this book cover to cover in a short amount of time and I keep going back to it for inspiration!