New Cottage Style, 2nd Edition (Better Homes and Gardens) (Better Homes and Gardens Home)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (680 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1118170342 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Completely updated, New Cottage Style shows you what cottage style means today, with new interpretations that keep it fresh, different, and current. Shows you how cottage-style décor can be beautiful in any room Gorgeous full-color photos depict a wide variety of cottage-style homesExpert advice helps you interpret what makes a cottage-style space work and gives you ideas for implementing it in your homeWho doesn't want to achieve a casual, easy lifestyle? New Cottage Style gives you practical ideas and decorating techniques to create a comfortable getaway look in any living space.. Achieve a casual, easy living style"Cottage" is a perennially popular decorating style, with the flexibility to adapt to changing tastes over the decades. This all-new edition of New Cottage Style is packed with decorating ideas and inspiration to achieve a cottage look that's clean, simple, and light—all from the experts at Better Homes and Gardens.
Personalize your spaces with displays that show your personality and interests.Book It: Grab a few of your favorite books and stack them on a table. Top with a small bouquet of fresh flowers.Cute Cluster: Use some old glass bottles to create a centerpiece highlighting garden clippings-it's more interesting than a standard vase.Collective Display: Show off hat collections by hanging them on the walls instead of art.Serving a Purpose: Use a serving tray or bowl to display accessories such as seashell
Cottage Style??? Many cottage-style decorating books include photos of cozy, inviting rooms that I'd love to just dive right into. I was hoping to find photos like that in this book, too. Unfortunately, to me this book doesn't feel very cottage-like at all. I've been searching through a lot of cottage style books lately and dislike the trend toward the white all-over room, thoroughly depicted in this book. Most of the photos in this book are of sterile, white rooms (white walls, white floors, white furniture) with a few splashes of color (aqu. Nice Interpretations of Cottage Style S. Fuller I have to say I'm very pleasantly surprised by the New Cottage Style book. It's not new pictures of the expected beach and country cottage; it's filled from front to back with delicious images of different interpretations of cottage style. I'm happy to see everything from modern to French, from whitewashed to moody, colorful to neutral, and casual to somewhat formal. The entire book is summery and light-filled, perfect for sitting on the porch with a glass of lemonade and perusing for ideas to steal. I've already looked throu. L. M. Keefer said Do You Like Cottage Style?. If you love Cottage Style and can't get enough of it, you should enjoy seeing the cottages, bungalows and farmhouses in this charming book. Its focus is the NEW cottage style--there's even a modular home decorated in a relaxed cottage style. (Top designer David Easton who worked at Parish-Hadley and taught design history at Parsons School of Design in New York writes in his book Timeless Elegance: The Houses of David Easton that he is building a pre-fab home in the country with his partner--so it demonstrates these modular, p