Interior Alchemy: Secrets to Creating Expressive Ambience

Interior Alchemy: Secrets to Creating Expressive Ambience

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From carefully selected objects such as old tools, glass boxes or botanical prints, America has developed a yen for the vintage. Full-color photographs in each chapter include do-it-yourself projects for finishing touches and tricks for creating cutting-edge interior design. Size D. 192 pp. 20,000 print.
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published March 18th 1998 by William Morrow & Company
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Grace
I picked up this book after finding out that a friend whose decorating I adore cites it as one of her greatest inspirations. I found it to be extremely inspiring in parts, and extremely uninspiring in others. While waiting for the book to arrive from inter-library loan, I read through the reviews on Amazon. One of them mentioned a chapter in which the author converted an old chicken house into an extremely rustic getaway from the hustle and bustle of the "big house." The rustic house? Has what a...more
Becky
Someone on Goodreads mentioned this as one of their favorite decorating books ever, but it's not my style. I've never been a flea-market scavenger and that seems to be the backbone of this book.

I might think of this book if I was trying to build a totally lived-in space out of nothing, like for a movie set with characters who live in odd places with a lot of stuff, including dolls, taxidermy, and drapes. Not for the clutter-fearing.
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