Bohemian Style

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Summary: Packed with examples
Review: Elizabeth Wilhide's Bohemian Style explores major influences in the Bohemian style's development, with black and white and many color photos showing how these different styles can be incorporated into the modern home. From textured walls and painted embellishments to draping, this is packed with examples.

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Summary: Forgive the author.
Review: I suppose the people who produced this book started out on the reasonable-enough assumption that people who create visually interesting images and objects would also live in visually interesting surroundings. (The extra star is for their presumably good intentions.)

So it must have been disconcerting for them to have gone to the trouble and expense of photographing all these artists' homes and coming up with one dirty, disorganized slobs' nest after another.

Most of these homes look as if bears live there . . . clinically depressed, hygienically-challenged bears who never throw anything away and don't own any brooms or vacuum cleaners.

If you're sufficiently interesting in decor that you're hoping to tease some decorating inspiration from this book, odds are that your own home is already vastly better-looking than these dumps.

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Summary: Good for the coffee table but not much else
Review: I thought this was going to be more of a how-to book, but it's not designed in a very user-friendly way even though there are some suggestions for projects included (most of which are somewhat obscured within the text). The photos are lovely, and the title makes it a compelling addition to one's coffee table, but if you're looking for a project guide, pick something else.

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Summary: YUK!
Review: Maybe I've grown out of my "do with it what you can til it falls apart" stage, but I found this book to look like a garage sale jumble. No simple, natural class...I thumbed through it (excitedly) the moment it arrived...then promptly packed it right back up and sent it BACK! If I were you, I wouldn't bother! I KNOW what Bohemian Style means to me...and this is not it!

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Summary: A Beautiful Style
Review: My Czech ancestry would be very disconcerted that throughout this entire book...the beginnings - roots of bohemianism was not even mentioned! What about the beautiful bohemian glass artisans of Bohemia...century's BEFORE the Victorian Era.
I know true Bohemians whose households do not look chaotic, but actually are eclectic - ethnic - mixtures of faux finishes that flow beautifully throughout.
If you want bohemian style...do research at the library!

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Summary: True Bohemians
Review: My Czech ancestry would be very disconcerted that throughout this entire book...the beginnings - roots of bohemianism was not even mentioned! What about the beautiful bohemian glass artisans of Bohemia...century's BEFORE the Victorian Era.
I know true Bohemians whose households do not look chaotic, but actually are eclectic - ethnic - mixtures of faux finishes that flow beautifully throughout.
If you want bohemian style...do research at the library!

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Summary: This is Bohemian?
Review: This book is more a history of Bohemian style than anything else. The photos are uninspiring, dated and not at all what I considered "Bohemian" to be. It was a total disappointment. It IS hard to find books that show you how to decorate in an eclectic, ethnic and Bohemian style which is what I was lookin for. In the end I've decided to add ALL ethnicities to my bedroom: Morrocan lamp, Mexican wrought-iron candelabra, Thai carved wood platform bed, rattan headboard, leopard skin chair, carved red Chinese armoire, and Indian-style entertainment cabinet! Now that's what I'd call Bohemian!

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Summary: bohemiam style
Review: This book is very colorful and delightful. It's a great book to incourage alternative life styles and decorating.

Makes you realize and appreciate that there are other ways to live not just the typical Ozzie and Harriet style that we are all used to. This is the real world and we need to accept all ways of viewing decorating and life decisions.

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Summary: A Beautiful Style
Review: When decorating my new spacious home in upstate NY, I was interested to move away from the classic traditional style that I had used in previous residences. I picked up this book and was inspired. You too will be surprised by how simple, versatile, and beautiful the Bohemian style can be, according to the author's guidelines.