Tracy Porter's Home Style: Creative and Livable Decorating Ideas for Everyone

by Tracy Porter

Transform your home with Tracy's signature style and spirited approach to comfortable living.

When Tracy Porter founded her company with a $5,000 loan from her parents, she never envisioned that eight years later it would be a $40 million business with products sold at thousands of retail stores.

In Tracy Porter's Home Style, Tracy demonstrates how to enliven rooms with old treasures and common objects. Lavishly illustrated, and brimming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786868112
• ISBN13: 9780786868117
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.9" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Tracy Porter's Home Style

I have all of Tracy Porter's decorating and entertaining books. If you like decorating your home and want fresh ideas, you must have this book!

Pure delight, a creative adventure

I'll read anything by Tracy Porter that I can get my hands on. Her approach to home decor - as well as her approach to life itself -- is a creative breath of fresh air. Unlike so many other decorating pros today, Tracy is truly innovative, fresh, and artistic. Her style is like no other, and always contains elements of surprise and delight. Tracy invites us to look at our homes in new ways, and to treat day-to-day living, even ordinary moments, as an art form. Can't wait for more books from this remarkably talented, joyful woman.

FUN!

This book is great! Why be boring with the same kind of decorating everyone else does? It's time that we all have some fun with our homes. A little whimsy is nice. It makes you feel good.It May even bring a smile to your face when you come home from a hard day. Wonderful book!

Flight of Fancy

I am a fan of Tracy Porter's eclectic, fanciful style. My only disapointment with this book is that the format was not as large as "Dreams from Home" or "Inspired Gatherings". "Home Style" is an inspirational guide to Tracy's style, and perhaps your own. I find her sense of whimsy and creativity delightful. There a joy and free-spiritedness to her work that is quite refreshing. Her style may not appeal to all, but if you are a fan of Shabby Chic, flea-market finds, romance and comfortable charm, you will enjoy "Home Style".

Tracy Porter is classy

Tracy Porter's newest book continues to give me ideas for making my home unusual and charming using items from my attic and flea market trips. What attracts me to Tracy is her sense of whimsy, sophistication, and confidence that creates a special look to ordinary surroundings. Tracy shows us how to take things we have or can easily purchase and make our home different from the homogenized rooms we see in so many publications with new, shiny furnishings that tend to all look alike. Tracy's book has given me the courage to utilize a favorite old bench with silk fabric that is glorious but ripped, fabric that is too unique to throw away. Because of Tracy, I display a chipped Minton plate that normally I would have kept at the back of a cabinet; I bring out tattered leather books and golf leaf frames with cloudy glass and marred edges. To mix the old and the new, well-worn antiques and flea market/house sale finds, makes a home special. There is no one like Tracy in making a home exciting without spending a fortune. A skirt of tulle on an ordinary wash stand, unusual flower holders on the wall, and a deep shade of red turn an ordinary bathroom into a delight. Weathered garage doors for the closet and old garden ornaments as table centerpieces, along with aged wooden cornices over kitchen windows, make any home look extraordinary. Thanks to her, I browse shops with a new eye and pull out things from my attic and basement that I thought were too worn to use. Something well used but classy is so much more interesting than something new and tacky. My friends all rave about "the Tracy Porter look."