Vintage Style: Creating a Complete Look for Your Home
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (906 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0821226029 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Lavish details abound--velvet curtains, tassels, and bobble fringe, for instance. Liberal in her use of color, Kidston often recommends mixing clashing colors for a vibrant feeling in the room. Kidston's original love of this style stems from the patterns and fabrics she grew up with. With its floral prints, chintz fabrics, and flea-market finds, vintage style is a popular one. Kidston's Vintage Style is all about cheerful, well-worn rooms that are as comfortable as they are pretty. Her vintage style consists largely of rose prints in chintz fabric as well as comfortable linen and ticking. There's something very refreshing about such resourcefulness in an age of disposable items. Resourceful decorating ideas include the use of old scraps of patterned fabrics and striped linens, ribbon, and haberdashery flowers to create padded clothes hangers, ironing board covers, and stitch lavender sachets--all of which would mak
From the living room and kitchen to the bathroom and outdoors, Cath Kidston shows how the elements work, from big-picture ideas to the details. The essence of this eclectic style is the combination of beautiful old fabrics and textures with modern comfort. Vintage Style transforms the charms of the past into a fresh, contemporary approach to decorating for today.
Beautiful photography and some good decorating ideas! A Customer I really liked this book, but I would like to have seen more "content" Perhaps more detailed instructions on how projects were created. Also, there were some lovely descriptions of design elements of rooms that were not pictured. While the photographs were very artful and pretty, many did not fully show things that were described in the text. I felt this book demonstrated a unique style that was different from Rachel Ashwell. Two Stars Was disappointed with this book, not that great!. Pretty, but a disappointment I was really looking forward to this book, but was disappointed by its narrow focus. I wish Kidston had shown more examples than just her own home. And while I did like her decorating style, it was most irritating to keep flipping back and forth between text and photos, trying to figure out if the picture next to the text was an example of what she was describing (and often it wasn't) or if the photo 3 pages ahead was really