Camps and Cottages: A Stylish Blend of Old and New

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Summary: Review of Camps and Cottages
Review: Camps and Cottages has some nice photographs of interior home furnishings. What I didn't like about the book are several things. The pictures are repeated throughout the book. For the price of this book I want to see original pictures on each page. The use of small pictures, about 1" square is really difficult for the eye to see. Printing text over textured, colored pages is extremely difficult to read. Descriptions are given of various rooms with no pictures to match, causing the reader confusion. Some photographs are cut off, even though the description includes items not seen. Some of the photographs are out of focus.

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Summary: I'd give it a C+
Review: Every page is a colorful photograph of real cabins, homes, cottages and camps that are warm and inviting. The book is a perfect hostess gift or how-to book. The pictures make it easy to peruse antique shops and swap meets to create a beautiful, warm and cozy home environment. I'm thrilled to have come across this treasury of making a house a home.

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Summary: Cottage decorating made easy!
Review: Every page is a colorful photograph of real cabins, homes, cottages and camps that are warm and inviting. The book is a perfect hostess gift or how-to book. The pictures make it easy to peruse antique shops and swap meets to create a beautiful, warm and cozy home environment. I'm thrilled to have come across this treasury of making a house a home.

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Summary: I'd give it a C+
Review: I am obsessed by the idea of having a weekend house of my own, so I spend a lot of time looking at books that can inspire and help me. I just got my copy of this book and find some of the photos interesting and fun but the book lacks the variety and depth of my favorite getaway book, which is called SECOND HOME. SECOND HOME has one great house after another from coast to coast but it also includes all kinds of tips (how to choose a location, how to shop for a home or a site, decorating, building, and so on).

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Summary: A Marriage of Shabby/Cottage & Cowboy/Native American Chic
Review: I loved this book. For years I have been collecting Cowboy and Native American items and have gotten tired of the basically "masculine" feel of the rooms. This book incorporated many of these same elements in a shabby chic, cottage chic way. It showed me how to marry all these styles into one visually appealing look. I found my style! I just wish that there had been more written substance to the book. It took me all of 45 minutes to digest both the written dialogue and the pictures. However, I did especially find moving the dedication to Popeye, the resident cat. Gotta love an animal lover!

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Summary: A Marriage of Shabby/Cottage & Cowboy/Native American Chic
Review: I loved this book. For years I have been collecting Cowboy and Native American items and have gotten tired of the basically "masculine" feel of the rooms. This book incorporated many of these same elements in a shabby chic, cottage chic way. It showed me how to marry all these styles into one visually appealing look. I found my style! I just wish that there had been more written substance to the book. It took me all of 45 minutes to digest both the written dialogue and the pictures. However, I did especially find moving the dedication to Popeye, the resident cat. Gotta love an animal lover!

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Review: I loved this book. I can't tell you how many times I've picked it up and looked through all of the wonderful pictures. If you love the camp and/or cottage style, this book is a must for you.

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Summary: Move over, Rachel! Molly's here!
Review: If you like cottage-style decor but just can't take any more pink roses, chippy white paint, and floral frou-frou, cleanse your visual palate with Molly Hyde English's refreshing take on cottage style. Camps and Cottages presents a look that will be instantly familiar to anyone who's ever vacationed in a cabin by the lake or in the mountains. It's all-American, family-friendly, cozy and comfortable. In page after page of gloriously photographed interiors, you'll find a wealth of inspiration for transforming your home into a full-time weekend retreat. The emphasis is on color, eclecticism, and whimsy, using camp blankets, rustic furniture, vintage pillows and tablecloths, tourist souveniers, and old signs and paintings to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere. The Camps and Cottages style strikes the perfect balance between the overly masculine "lodge look" and the frilly home-as-boudoir approach of "shabby chic." Get the book, get to the flea market, and you may never feel the need to rent somebody else's vacation home again.

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Summary: A delight to the eye
Review: In Camps And Cottages: : A Stylish Blend Of Old And New, Molly English draws upon her years of experience providing furnishings for cabins and cottages around the country in order to restore or highlight their 1930s and 40s vintage motif and style that is fully adapted to the comforts and lifestyles of their 1990s era residents. The informative and accessible text is enhanced throughout with Linda Svendsen's superbly presented, full-color photography. The examples of interior decor are drawn from New England, mid-America, the Rockies, and the Pacific Cost against backgrounds ranging from seashore to forest. Whether just browsing it pages for fun or in serious quest for adaptable ideas for redoing or restoring your own rustic cabin or period cottage, Camps And Cottages is a delight to the eye, an inspiration to the mind, and a highly recommended addition to personal or professional interior design reference collections.

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Review: The book's text and photographs made me wish I could be there (in Oregon). I enjoyed reading the author's growth in the book, what led her to write it. I found the step-by-step projects well detailed and the pictures excellent. Thank you.