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Title: The Shabby Chic Home
ISBN: 006039319X
Author:
Rachel Ashwell
Publicate Date: 2000-04
Publish: 2000-04
List Price: $35.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon Lowest New Price: $9.90
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1: It's a Keeper
This book is a keeper. I will treasure it because this lady has captured my dream home without ever knowing me. I could move into a house she decorated and never change one thing. If you like older homes and enjoy relaxed, light, airy, calming, clean, happy, unstuffy, uplifting ways to live in and update a vintage house you will like The Shabby Chic Home and the guidance and hints contained in it. I keep it handy so that I can thumb through it often. A beautiful book with great photos. An older book that will actually never grow old. I really like this book and highly recommend it. See you at the flea market!
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2: Beautiful book
This is my favorite of all the Shabby Chic books. There's just something about all the vintage linens, laces and antique china pieces in this book. (Let's face it, eating lunch on a beautiful antique china plate is so much more fun!) The photos are beautiful and just captured my spirit. I wanted my home to look the same way. I also love how we can see Rachel Ashwells home before, and then after she got her hands on it. The ideas and inspiration you receive from this book never ends. Each time I look at it, something else reaches out and grabs me as a great idea. There's just something about the Shabby Chic look, (like warmth, comfort, and inviting!) and if you're looking at the various Shabby Chic books and want beautiful ideas, then this is definitely the one you want.
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3: Still Loving This Book
I've owned this book for several years, and I still just love browsing through it. There's this a sort of peace and relaxation that overcomes the reader while viewing the pictures. Maybe you won't duplicate a single thing in your own house, but who cares? It's just a great book to dream in.
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4: Shabby But Super Expensive Chic
Rachel Ashwell has grown from a newly divorced mother trying to make ends meet to a powerhouse with books, stores and a TV show doing the same things my late mother and I used to do on weekends. I'll admit it: I really, really want to playahate. But I love her style and I've liked it for nearly 10 years since the first book. The good news with this book is that it's finally her home that she's describing, so there's no more of the star-struck name dropping of the earlier books (i.e., photographing actor Bruce Dern's house). I loved watching her transform what appeared to be a dark Tudor disco house into a true home. And despite Shabby Chic's priciness, it's never pretentious. Her books are always incredibly beautiful and well-narrated.
I *still* can't afford to buy her stuff. I called to price one of those luxurious sofas she shows and it tops $4000 *before* shipping from NYC, the closest outlet to me in the South. But she has the wonderful new line at Target that is still relatively affordable. Oh, the pain of being Middle Class! That being said, her aesthetic still influences me and I know I can reproduce that style using Craigslist, Freecycle, Goodwill, Salvation Army, flea markets and estate/tag/moving sales. All it takes is a can of cream paint and a willingness to cart stuff into your new pad.
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5: More pretty Shabby Chic pictures and ideas.
I never tire of the beautiful pictures in these books. Although not everything was "doable" in my own home, it was inspiring to look at Rachel Ashwell's gorgeous home. I love that she has a relatively small house (by California standards), making every inch count. Simplicity and beauty intertwine.
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