Shell Chic: The Ultimate Guide to Decorating Your Home with Seashells

by Marlene Hurley Marshall

Book Overview

Bringing an eccentric creativity to the romance of the beach, Marlene Hurley Marshall shows you how to use shells to bring a sea-infused decorative flair into your own home. Lavish photography, profiles of contemporary shell artists, and simple instructions for 35 remarkable projects will inspire you to get crafting. From adding a few shells to a picture frame or lampshade to encrusting a small bathtub with an eye-catching assemblage, you'll be astounded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158017440X
• ISBN13: 9781580174404
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.8" x 11.8"

Customer Reviews

Exceptional!!!

This is far and away the most beautiful book on shell inspiration I have ever seen. The projects are lovely and the photos are coffee table quality!! I highly recommend this book for crafters, sea shell lovers and anyone who loves this ancient art!

Great book... inspirational, varied, well researched

This is a book written by a professional with a passion for shells and design. I loved it... read it cover to cover, and studied each photo. Great attention to detail throughout this book. There is a great deal of content here. Why not 5 stars? I would have preferred more how-to information and technique.. like maybe 5 more pages worth. I think it was in the scope of the book, but they chose to leave it out... so for that you must look elsewhere. Be warned... if you are looking for googly eyed shell animal kinda shell craft, you won't find it here, and may be disappointed.

Awesome ideas!

I saw this book at my aunt's house and from the time I started flipping through the pages, I knew I had to buy this one. There are the most beautiful shell flower projects with easy to follow instructions that I have come across to date. The color photos are spectacular and provide so many ideas for what to do with the buckets of shells that some of us have collected! I have already purchased my floral wire and plan on doing some group projects out of this book with family and friends. Joni Chew

Shellatious

Whether you craft or only crave shells, this book will do it for you. This book provides inspiration whether you are a do-it-yourselfer or merely an admirer of shelled creations. The range is from the extraordinary to the amusing to the out of this world.

absolutely beautiful!

This is the most beautiful book I've ever seen. Whether you like making things with shells or just love the beach, you'll be inspired by page after page of unique and even elaborate uses for shells in the home. It will leave you craving the ocean and inspired to do beautiful things.

Practical methods for decorating with shells

Packed cover to cover with full-color photographs, Shell Chic: The Ultimate Guide To Decorating Your Home With Seashells by painter and artist Marlene Hurley Marshall is a practical and inspirational guide to using seashells for vibrant and dramatic visual effect in one's home. From eye-catching table centerpieces to dazzling furniture enhancement, the text describes the practical methods for decorating with shells and the wondrous photographs by Sabine Vollmer von Falken portray the opulent results in both historic and modern creations. Also very highly recommended for the do-it-yourself enthusiast is Marlene Marshall and Sabine von Falken's earlier work, Making Bits & Pieces Mosaics: Creative Projects For Home & Garden (1580170153; $$$$$)