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Title: Tracy Porter's Home Style: Creative and Livable Decorating Ideas for Everyone by Tracy Porter ISBN: 0-7868-6811-2 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tracy Porter is classy
Comment: 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."
Rating: 3
Summary: The only person in the US who doesn't know who she is!
Comment: My affair with this book is love-hate.
I never heard of Tracy Porter or her 'style' until the publisher sent me a beautifully designed shopping bag filled with catalogs showcasing her retail items and the gift of a personal teapot cum cup & saucer -- very clever.
The items from her retail line are much cleaner and more mainstream than the pictures in this book which purports to be from her home.
What Tracy does is give the reader permission to take things out of the 'keeping for good' closet and use them everyday. That's good.
What she also does, and I'm sick to death of it, is use items that have seen better days. If I see one more piece of distressed furniture or one more chipped painted chandelier I'm going to scream.
People -- reupholster your furniture! If something's ripped, fix it. Unless your furniture sports real antique fabrics or finishes or is showing true wear and tear from daily use, repair it. Enough I say!
Tracy bravely uses color in her home. I do think there's too much of a mish-mash in many of the rooms, but that's my personal taste and not necessarily bad.
The other problem I have with this book is this home supposedly has three small (under 4 years old) boys living in it. Yet, there is pin a cushion on chair seat (a delight to the eye), a faux leopard throw hanging off a chest (on top of which sit four painted glasses and a matching glass martini shaker), lampshades with antique buttons hot-glued around the rim, and a dresser top filled with a letter opener, very, very small porcelain dolls, perfume bottles, and hat pins, to name a few.
I hope as soon as the photographer left Tracy ran through the house clearing off all these potential accidents waiting to happen.
There is a very short project section which gives instructions on how to make some of the items shown in the book. If you're a fan of decorating books, magazines, or shows you've seen them all before.
What I did appreciate is the resource directory at the back of the book. In alphabetical order it lists many of the places you can buy nice home design items. Where there is a web site available, it is included, so you're not forced to call.
Rating: 5
Summary: FUN!
Comment: 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!
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Title: Tracy Porter's Inspired Gatherings by Tracy Porter ISBN: 0740700464 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Tracy Porter's Dreams from Home by Tracy Porter, Deborah Hernandez, Ann Porter, Katy Rowe, Dale Stenten, Deborah Pacini Hernandez ISBN: 0836267737 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Susan Sargent's New Country Color: The Art of Living by Susan Sargent, Jake Chapline, Eric Roth ISBN: 082302184X Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Shabby Chic Gift of Giving by Rachel Ashwell ISBN: 0060394013 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 23 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Treasure Hunting and Decorating Guide by Rachel Ashwell ISBN: 0060392088 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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