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Title: Real Life Decorating: Your Life, Your Style, Your Home (Better Homes and Gardens(R)) by Linda Hallam, Better Homes and Gardens ISBN: 0-696-21097-5 Publisher: Meredith Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Limited in style, but has useful tips
Comment: Here are what I think are the pluses and minuses of this book:
Pluses: The "style primer" section gives tips on color and paint, proportion and scale, furniture and floor plans, art and arranging, patterns and fabric, accessories and collections, lighting and lamps, storage and display, and sources and resources. This section alone will probably be worth the cost of the book to most people. Most of these tips can be generalized to different styles. Also the tips at the end of each case study can be useful to many people.
Minuses: However, the case studies themselves leave something to be desired. Even though the book supposedly shows the homes of a cross section of people, the style is the same through out the book. What I call "modern country." It has a country feel, but more choices of color than traditional country and some unusual eye catching design-elements.
If your style is modern country, or if you like a wide variety of styles and want a book representative of this type of style for your book colletion, like I did, then you will enjoy this book. Everyone else might want to pass.
Rating: 5
Summary: Accessible
Comment: I found this book to be fun and completely accessible. I enjoyed the stories about the 10 Real Life Decorators in the book and how their styles evolved. I found Real Life Decorating to be practical, creative and filled with timeless ideas and tips from people who actually "live" in the houses they decorate. This is a great book for all and I have already recommended it to many friends as a "must have" for the home design library.
Rating: 5
Summary: Accessible
Comment: I found this book to be fun, accessible and full of great ideas for people in all stages of life. I have already recommended it to many friends and suggest it as a "must have" for the home design library. The ideas are timeless and creative and the sources given are practical and fit the average homeowners budget.
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Title: Easy Style: 300 Decorating Shortcuts by Better Homes and Gardens ISBN: 0696207664 Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Decorating Year-Round: Shaping Your Style Through the Seasons by Better Homes and Gardens ISBN: 0696213923 Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The New Decorating Book (Better Homes and Gardens(R)) by Better Homes and Gardens ISBN: 0696213818 Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Trade Secrets from Use What You Have Decorating by Lauri Ward ISBN: 0399148094 Publisher: Putnam Adult Pub. Date: 11 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Taunton's Home Storage Idea Book (Taunton's Idea Book) by Joanne Kellar Bouknight ISBN: 1561585262 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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