Imperfect Home

by Mark Bailey, Sally Bailey, Debi Treloar (Photographer)

Imperfect Home is a look that's rough around the edges and sees the beauty in imperfection but is at the same time creative, modern and brave. Here Mark and Sally Bailey of destination homeware store Baileys Home & Garden turn their attention to homes that are less perfect and more personal, and which possess their very own brand of idiosyncratic, lived-in charm. Imperfect Home embraces the picturesque beauty of peeling paint, vintage fabric, time-worn colors, handmade items and obscure treasures. But it is also a place where old meets new, and where modern pieces are mixed in to bring vitality, color and contrast to any interior.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Hardcover

First published October 9, 2014

About the author

Mark and Sally Bailey’s style has been evolving for over 25 years in their Herefordshire home and business, Baileys Home & Garden.

Their backgrounds in architecture, interior design and furniture-making have lead to numerous and varied collaborations with the music and fashion industries, retailers, and in product design.

Mark and Sally have worked with Ralph Lauren, Paul Smith, Donna Karan, Liberty, Conran, Takashimaya and Habitat.

see: "Sally Bailey"

Reviews

[Meredith · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you want your home to feel like a "modern art" gallery, an extremely extremely rustic Anthropologie shop window, a dust-free modern Miss Havisham's or an abandoned industrial building, this book is for you.

I thought I was pretty out there with how "imperfect" I'd be comfortable with my home being, but when it comes to inserting driftwood or shells into a concrete floor, leaving a door with multitudinous shades of old paint all over it in a totally un-aesthetically pleasing way, using old metal deed boxes and old baking trays as bathroom cupboard storage, and soon many more absurd examples....they left me far far behind.

If I had a massive house where my storage didn't need to all function properly and had more room for displays of art and artistic objects, I still would not choose anything like the presentation in this book.

The one section I liked was on textiles, I appreciate good vintage linen - but not enough to want to wrap strips around hangers or buy vintage work gear just to display it.

[romney · Rating 2 out of 5]

Incredibly pretentious, which ironically is the opposite of what the text says. The writers revere chance-found work-worn items but mostly only when they have spent a lot of money to get them pre-worn from some far flung boutique. If you really want a dirty old sofa with the horsehair sticking out of it or a collection of sun-bleached indigo-dyed shepherds' parasols then this is the book for you. There is a lot of promotion of the people and places you can buy the look from, if thats your aim, however it looks too uncomfortable and dust-gathering for me. The pretension of artlessness annoyed me the whole way through, though every now and then there would be something good such as hand-dyed vintage bed linens which I could do cheaply at home and would actually like. Mostly not though.

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wrote a review with pictures on my blog here http://thedustycellar.blogspot.com/20...

I love the idea of wabi sabi, but the implementation of it in this book might be a little rough for me practically speaking. Images are beautiful

[Martha · Rating 4 out of 5]

used & weathered

[B · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are some really great design & decoration ideas in here. I love all the textures & different elements that may seem random, but come together so cohesively. I'd read it again.