Cottage Style (Better Homes & Gardens)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0696215608 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Breaks one of the hottest categories of decorating into doable increments with chapters on furnishings, fabrics, floor coverings, window treatments, and choosing and arranging accessories.Ideas include whole-room schemes, as well as dozens of small ideas readers can adapt to warm—and charm—their homes.Covers the range of styles from rustic to refined.Helps readers find ideas and adapt them to create the cottage-style of their dreams, no matter where they live."Finding Your Style" tip boxes throughout the book move readers from inspiration to action.
ricecake said Wonderfully Inspiring!. An absolutely great book, filled with tons of color photos that demonstrate cottage style in many different fashions. Whether you are interested in English country, nautical, romantic, folksy or any other form of cottage decor, this book will have ideas for you! And the text is just as nice as the photos! No boring, four syllable, technical jargon The. "Wonderfully charming, unpretentious, and helpful" according to M. Pass. Where we live, a lot of people have second homes. That isn't possible for us right now, but this book, Cottage Style, is helping me give our suburban house that weekend-house look. At first, I thought cottage style was just one decorating look, but it isn't. It includes LOTS of looks (farmhouse, Adirondack, and so on) with one thing in common: giving . Best Book on Cottage Style This book is jam packed with gorgeous pictures and ideas. I never realized how many different expressions of Cottage Style there is. It helped me to fine tune the specific cottage style that was right for me. I personally was turned off by anything cutesy but found that cottage style needn't be cutesy at allif you don't like that look. Nor does it hav
Amateurs, meanwhile, will find Cottage Style a more accessible volume for personal home design. From Library Journal The cottage, as defined in Cottage Style, is "a usually small vacation home"; however, both books show how cottage style can be used for a permanent home as well. The main purpose is to show how contemporary architects, using modern design techniques, have developed the cottage style for contemporary living. Architects, interior designers, and students will find this book especially useful for its last chapter on designing a cottage home. . As usual, the publisher provides numerous photographs to illustrate how to create a cottage look, with examples of window treatments, flooring, and wall coverings, as well as individual examples of various cottage styles from beach house to mountain cabin for every room of the home.Copyright 1998 Reed Business I