Vintage lifestyle expert and interior designer Bob Richter shows us how to find the best vintage treasures and how living with them brings beauty, comfort and personal meaning into our homes. Bob richter has been thrifting and collecting vintage treasures for more than forty years, since the age of six.
. With a true passion for antiques, or any object with a past and a story, Richter speaks to our desire to surround ourselves with belongings that impart beauty and meaning to our lives. Richter also imparts hard-won practical tips, such as how best to negotiate and haggle. With chapters on vintage entertaining and cooking; vintage holiday décor for all seasons including Valentine's Day, Easter, repurpose and recycle; and caring for your old treasures, and Halloween among others; giving vintage gifts; embracing vintage ways write letters, this bible of vintage living will inspire you to take a personal and creative approach to your décor.
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A Very Vintage Christmas: Holiday Collecting, Decorating and Celebrating
In fact, finding these objects, decorating with them and sharing them with others brings an instant feeling of comfort and joy. A very vintage christmas embodies the nostalgia and sentimentality associated with the holiday season. Globe Pequot Pr. Vintage ornaments, decorations, lights, cards and wrapping all conjure up happy memories of Christmases past and serve as tangible mementos of holidays shared with family and friends.
While each chapter of a very vintage christmas is unique, and the interest in their history, there is a common thread that runs through them all: the love of beautiful holiday decorations, value, and preservation.
The Joy of Junk: Go Right Ahead, Fall In Love With The Wackiest Things, Find The Worth In The Worthless, Rescue & Recycle The Curious Objects That Give Life & Happiness
Best-selling author mary Randolph Carter is back at it with a full-throated celebration of junk and thrifting. Along the way, bunny williams, carter interviews other designers and high-profile collectors--such as Lisa Eisner, and Mike Wolfe from "American Pickers, " among others--revealing their favorite treasure hunts and showing us how they live with their collections.
Globe Pequot Pr. The joy of junk shows us how to live stylishly and creatively with the personally meaningful objects we love to collect for our homes. From the author who taught us that "junk" in not a four-letter word, shops, estate sales, Carter highlights her favorite junking moments, on the web, and drawing on her years of experience as a passionate thrifter and collector, revels in the thrill of the hunt and imparts many personal tips for finding treasures in flea markets, yard sales, or wherever you may find yourself.
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Global Bohemian: How to satisfy your wanderlust at home
Why settle for one style when you can indulge your love of several? Whether exuberant or subtle, eclectic or sophisticated, bohemian style welcomes a freethinking approach to decorating. Whether you want to transform understated spaces by adding intriguing nomadic elements, or hints of glamour, Global Bohemian offers ample and affordable decorative options and celebrates self-expression, inspiration, passion, incorporating tropical and beach motifs, and personal flair.
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The Maverick Soul: Portraits of the Lives & Homes of Eccentric, Eclectic & Free-Spirited Bohemians
From paris to london, griffin dunne, sydney to new York and various other places across the globe, subjects include Marianne Faithfull, Wendy Whiteley, Simon Finch, Linda Rodin and more. No one person is a reproduction of another; each of us is unique, shaped by the diversities of our own individual layers, and this book is a celebration of just that.
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Country Farmhouse
Whether a new pastoral build that honors the past or a weathered weekend getaway, homes that hold a reverence for reimagined historic finds fill every page. Globe Pequot Pr. Featuring charming collections, and chic renovations, outdoor living spaces, this timeless coffee table book packs style ideas that welcome a spirit of hospitality and gracious country living.
Hardie Grant Books. Grab a tall glass of lemonade and find a comfy spot on the porch as you read through our collection of unique interior design stories full of the cozy charm we know and love.
Country Living Shades of White: How to Use the Classic Color in Your Home
White is the ultimate color in country-style decorating—so of course country Living has the ultimate take on white! Organized by design style rustic, antique, traditional, and modern, the book’s inviting images help you choose the right shade of white for any room—from delicate dove greys to tints with a pearly sheen and more.
. Plus, do-it-yourself tips like “paint it!” “collect it!” and “Craft it!” encourage readers to add homespun charm to their homes with easy mini makeovers or weekend projects. Whether you’re on the hunt for just the right shade for your décor, or a white that holds its own in classic color combos like red and white, and black and white, blue and white, a new way to warm up a blank wall, a sturdy shade that can stand up to a busy family, Country Living provides the inspiration you need.
Bright idea” tips throughout showcase design elements like beadboard cabinets, and even pops of color, stone sinks, and explain how each works to drive the overall neutral décor.
Little Farmstead Living: Creating a Country Life Just Past the City Limits
Globe Pequot Pr. Through stories of transforming a fixer-upper into a charming farmhouse for her loved ones to enjoy, joy, Julie reveals dozens of simple ways that anyone can bring warmth, and meaning to their everyday homes. From farmhouse gatherings to seasonal decorating--plus a chapter on making Christmas magic--this beautiful and practical hardcover volume is one to turn to again and again.
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Creative Living: Bohemian Interiors Around the World
Creative living sidesteps the world of carefully constructed interior design images, instead diving into the liberated and nonconformist atmosphere of offbeat beauty and artistic delights. Tracing the journey from unusual childhoods to bohemian, adult worlds, often unorthodox, each profile reveals the twists of fate that have allowed each person to realize their full creative potential in the spaces they live and work in.
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Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books
Gay and nan Talese, and Emma Straub. Throughout, gorgeous photographs of rooms with rare collections, floor-to-ceiling shelves, and stacks upon stacks of books inspire readers to live better with their own collections. Praise for bibliostyle“featuring enviable private libraries and packed floor-to-ceiling shelves, this beautiful volume makes a compelling case for books as décor.
New york “freudenberger spotlights the splendid, enviable personal libraries of literary figures whose owners obviously care about their book collections and have actually read them, too. The boston globe“this is a coffee table book that makes you think as well as admire and desire. Sydney herald “offers a look into the fabulous homes of book lovers the world over, showcasing how their interior design is built around the tomes they love most.
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New Americana: Interior Décor with an Artful Blend of Old and New
. Holly kuhn’s signature style combines patina finishes, classic home furnishings, leather, and personal collections with ease and sophistication. Holly kuhn is the founder of old glory Style, Colorado, and Round Top, a home furnishings and antiques retailer with locations in Denver, Texas. Spirited interior décor inspired by a love of old, a quest for authenticity, and the artful blending of old with new.
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