Vintage Style: Creating a Complete Look for Your Home

by Cath Kidston

Book Overview

Designer Cath Kidston shows how to create a retro look full of color, texture, and comfort in every room of the home, using wonderful vintage fabrics of all kinds. 150 color photos. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821226029
• ISBN13: 9780821226025
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up

Customer Reviews

love,love,loved it

loved this book!very easy reading with beautiful photographs.i found this book very insipirational.i know have some great gift ideas for the future. kellie

What to do with flea market finds

Unlike many of the other reviewers, I adore this book... to the point that I have had it out from the library for six months! (Yes, I know that I had better buy it soon, and, no, it's not overdue yet.) Yes, this book is a bit precious. Yes, every single photo in the book features a 100% perfect room (right down to the eerily cute clothes hangers). But Vintage Style makes for delicious eye candy, and, more than that, it does have some nifty ideas. For example, I've been using it to get ready to go out antiquing, as it has all sorts of ideas for making over old bits and bobs. Like me, you may see lots of old towels, old blankets, and old trims, but never seem to know what to do with them. Of course, you want to buy them any way. But if you also buy this book, then you'll know just what to do. You'll edge plain white towels with strong old cotton lace. You'll use old linen to make a crazy 50's roller towel. The other aspect of this book that I enjoy is the fact that this book IS a bit precious. I respect the fact the Kidston wants to make every part of her life beautiful. Imagine that you had a lovely, vintage fabric covered ironing board. Imagine that you had charming slippers. I bet your life would be better! Mine certainly would.

LOVED THIS BOOK

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A LOVELY BOOK.I FOUND IT TO BE QUITE PRACTICAL CONSIDERING IT WAS SORT OF SHABBY CHIC MEETS VICTORIAN.THERE ARE MANY BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS WITH PLENTY OF GREAT IDEAS.I DISAGREE STRONGLY WITH SOME OF THE OTHER REVIEWS.PERHAPS YOU NEED TO BE A CREATIVE PERSON TO APPRECIATE THIS BOOK.