Flea Market Finds Before & After: Home Decorating With Makeover Miracles

by Leisure Arts

Transform tatters into treasures with this third volume of the acclaimed Flea Market Finds series. Designer Patti Sowers Uhiren continues to inspire readers with simple, inventive ways to create stunning home decor at garage sale prices. There are 150 makeover projects with "before" and "after" photographs showing the amazing transformation from flea market fare to the kind of eclectic home accessories you find in pricey boutique shops and design showrooms. Readers will pick up on how to spot potential "treasures" when cruising flea markets and tag sales. Illustrated with rich photography and expansive layouts, the book features "instant ideas" that require little or no time to accomplish.

Genres: Crafts

160 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 2003

About the author

Leisure Arts was born from a simple concept: The Art of Everyday Living. From its inception in 1971, Leisure Arts brightened lives through the art of needle crafting, specifically through crochet and knit publications. Today, Leisure Arts provides all the tools you need to live creatively. As a leading publisher of lifestyle and instructional craft publications, we work with a team of talented designers to bring you the latest trends in all crafting categories. From needle crafting and general crafting how-to books to adult coloring books, coloring instruments, home décor and beyond, it’s easy to make memories with Leisure Arts.

Reviews

[Ligaya]

This is one of the worst designed books I've seen in a long time, as if some graphic artist wannabe was let loose with a page design program. Ugh! The headline fonts!!! I double-checked the publication date to be certain this wasn't from the 1970s, then I realized this was a Leisure Arts book so I understood... Captions were borderline insipid and I didn't want to chance wasting time on reading the text, so I was left looking at the profusion of photographs with their amateurish styling. To be sure, there were some projects that were good and interesting makeovers but, for me, there were more instances where I liked the before much more than the after. Be warned.

[Kristine Sprunger]

The ideas are solid, the execution is dated. But, there is a creative way of looking at old furniture.

[Joy]

This book was an easy read with lots of pictures of what was found at a flea market and how they fixed it up and used in in the home. I still just like my old stuff, and I have enough, but I enjoyed the book.

[Katie]

This book has absolutely fabulous furniture transformations. It has inspired me to turn an old end table I got for free on Craigslist into an ottoman. Great pics and easy instrux!