Product Description: If you love rummaging through markets for unusual fabrics, and can’t pass an antique or second-hand shop without popping in, Bazaar Style is for you. Stylist Selina Lake and experienced interiors writer Joanna Simmons show you real homes furnished with intriguing pieces from different eras and cultures, which mix and match colors, patterns, and design. You’ll discover an inspiring mix of vintage and retro influences, flea-market finds, and pieces inspired by a French brocante or Moroccan bazaar. You can also use these pieces to customize chainstore basic buys such as a plain sofa or new bed. Selina and Joanna explain elements such as Furniture, Textiles, Lighting, Accessories, Display, and Color, then they show you how a particular style works in Kitchens, Living Rooms, Bedrooms, Bathrooms, and Home Offices. • Inspiring photographs by Debi Treloar. • The perfect gift for those who like to mix vintage and retro styles.
Glad I didn't buy this book... This book is fine if you just want inspiration. A little mish-mash but not your traditional decoratinig book. I checked out this book at the library hoping I'd see lots of the same thing as pictured on the cover. I didn't. I wanted to see how they did the fireplace that was pictured on the cover. The problem with this type of book is that you can't ever find the same things at flea markets and replicate it. But there weren't any instructions or how-to and this book was pretty WORDY for no instructions. Basically, it was "decorate with things you love."
Book of joy I¨m not a vintage/fleamarket style person when it comes to interiors, but it's refreshing to see that personal and unique homes can be created without a lot of money. A lot of ideas can be picked up here. You don't have to have a home that's entirely Bazaar/vintage style, but quite a lot of us do have a piece or two that can come to use in our home and make it our own. A lot of pictures - a book that gives you value for money.
BIZARRE Style is more accurate title Although the book itself is beautifully produced and photographed, the 'style' gives Eclectic a bad name. Even the most avant-garde professional designers know that the eye needs someplace to rest. "Calm" and "rest" don't appear here.
Fun design book I never write reviews, but this book is just fantastic! I love unique and different things with lots of color, so this book is very helpful. I can use the things I have for a vibrant fun filled home. If you are an avid flea market, rummage sale, & import store shopper, you are going to really enjoy this!
BOHEMIAN SPLENDOR! I love this look and find it a fun and easy way to decorate, HOWEVER, I caution those less adventurous folks to find a more mainstream book for reference. This book focuses on the flea market, ethnic look which is not a look based on balance or anything cohesive...it's an "anything goes" kind of look which is perfect if you are just starting out and trying to put a home together with odds and ends available to you from friends and family. Since I am a huge garage sale, antique mall or tag sale fan, I love seeing how these type of things can be show-cased to look fun and stylish. Since my style is a mix of this bohemian style with antiques and newer, modern furnishings and accessories mixed in, I find it a good point of reference when I'm looking for new and fresh ideas.
This is a wonderful book to spark some creativity and make your imagination run wild!
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