Cottage Style

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Summary: Fussy!
Review: I was thrilled to read all the online reviews of this book, as it sounded like just the thing I was looking for. I perused a copy at a bookstore, and absolutely hated it! The style is not cottage at all, but country: flowered chintz everywhere, clutter, cutesy. If you're looking for the simplicity of cottage style, this is not the book for you.

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Summary: Decorate to turn any home into a vacation-style getaway.
Review: If you want to get away--every day--this is a must-have decorating book. "Cottage" is defined as a usually small vacation home, but this inspiring and practical decorating book gives you the tools and inspiration to make your own cottage dreams materialize--right now and wherever you live. What's your dream? A cottage by the water? A lace-curtained farmhouse? A little house in the big woods? Or how about a room that surrounds you with the fresh colors of a garden walk--all year long? Well, you can have it! Better Homes and Gardens COTTAGE STYLE includes more than 200 lush color photos to get your imagination going. In addition to a room-by-room decorating guide, special sections break cottage style into the dreamy basics--fabrics, furnishings, colors, walls, windows, and floors--that you can mix and match to create your own personal decorating schemes. Along the way, you'll enjoy and learn from cottage decorating makeover tips and simple project ideas. Why wait to own or visit that lake house or cabin you've been dreaming of when you can decorate to turn your home into a getaway cottage you can enjoy every day?

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Summary: Dreamy and helpful, too
Review: In our home, this is one of our favorite decorating books, because it's helped us to make our home feel like a little weekend getaway, even though we live in town. Now, on amazon I found the follow-up book by the same Better Homes and Gardens editors. It's called Second Home, and it has more decorating ideas (from real second homes around the country) and also information on finding our own second home. Highly recommend it.

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Summary: Enjoy creating a new look in your home
Review: Lush pictures of several cottage styles makes this a delightful book to peruse while sipping tea. The vaired cottage styles include the expected "English Ambience" and "Touchable Treasures" but also included "Camp Out", "Family Farm", and "Pure and Simple". There are many cost conscious suggestions and funky whimsical designs which made this a book that I added to my own library. I got many ideas for adding the cottage flair to my home without breaking the bank. I truly enjoy this book.

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Summary: Enjoy creating a new look in your home
Review: Lush pictures of several cottage styles makes this a delightful book to peruse while sipping tea. The vaired cottage styles include the expected "English Ambience" and "Touchable Treasures" but also included "Camp Out", "Family Farm", and "Pure and Simple". There are many cost conscious suggestions and funky whimsical designs which made this a book that I added to my own library. I got many ideas for adding the cottage flair to my home without breaking the bank. I truly enjoy this book.

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Summary: The perfect springtime decorating book
Review: Now that the holidays are over and spring is around the corner, I'm so ready to redecorate and turn my house into the kind of getaway that the author describes. This book is about my style -- cozy, comfy and unpretentious. I love it! Cottage Style is going to help me create the weekend beach house of my dreams right where I live!! This is the perfect book for springtime redecorating.

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Summary: poor photos and poor contents and poor print...
Review: poor book, I don't read it anymore.

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Summary: What a gift!
Review: Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've always been afraid that my favorite decorating style was too "homey" to be "cool." Now I know I was wrong. This book has given me "permission" to decorate my way with country-cottage furnishings and my favorite accessories. We live in the suburbs, but when you walk in, you feel as if you're in a summer cottage.

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Summary: Fabulous
Review: This book finally defined my decorating style - I didn't even know it had a name. The photos and the info help you figure out what appeals to you so you can make decorating decisions that produce your desired effect. We have been able to give our home that "cozy-comfy-bed&breakfast" feel that is very relaxing. I look at this book whenever I'm stumped and always get a new idea. Get it today!

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Summary: great examples for all kinds of houses
Review: this book grows on you; if you ignore styles that aren't yours and look instead at placement and room design it will give you great ideas. The photos are very nice too.