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Obras de Charlotte Abrahams

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This book is beautiful to look at and has lots of ideas for choosing and using different types of patterns.
 
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Melanie_Knight | otra reseña | Dec 20, 2022 |
Love Pattern and Colour by Charlotte Abrahams is a visual feast with a lot of ideas and suggestions for finding what colors or patterns you might want to incorporate into your living space.

Like any feast, not every dish will appeal to you. There were some combinations I would not be able to live with, some that I could probably live with, and others that just made me want to move in. Like most readers, however, none of the rooms and schemes are perfect for me. Which is fine since the purpose of the book is to show us how to take ideas from wherever we might find them and make them a part of a comfortable living (or even entertaining) space.

I came away with more of a willingness to bring some color and pattern into my rooms. My tendencies will lean more toward the subtle inclusion and the kinds of things that will almost go unnoticed until one suddenly catches on. That is my personal nature. I imagine some will come away with bold ideas on remaking their spaces.

This book, while full of vibrant photographs of rooms and areas of rooms, is not meant to simply show pictures a reader likes or doesn't like. The idea is to see what is happening in a room, even a room you wouldn't want, and decide whether there might be ideas there that, done different, would work for you. In fact, one of my least favorite rooms in the book did make me think about how to contrast elements that I would never have done previously. Needless to say I wouldn't have done what that person did, but they probably wouldn't care for what I might do. All good.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.
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pomo58 | otra reseña | Oct 24, 2021 |
I wanted to love this book. Alas, it's more a memoir than an actual explanation of what Hygge is, and how to incorporate it into your life. I'd say it's mislabelled - if I knew what I was getting into, I'd likely have not grabbed it as an ARC.

Still, it was well-written and interesting, just not what I was looking for on the topic of Hygge.
 
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bonnyadventures | 2 reseñas más. | Feb 3, 2019 |
This is a fine book, but it wasn't really what I was hoping it would be. For a work all about hygge it wasn't, well, particularly hyggelig. What should (to me, at least) have been a warm, friendly, and engaging read, instead felt rather like somewhat dry memoirs about a trip to Denmark and the writer's own bungelow, with some thoughts about the concept -- and some pictures of very lovely Danish furniture -- thrown in.

If you like memoirs, this may be good for you.

If you want to feel warm and enveloped in good writing, as you learn about this particularly Danish feeling, then this is probably not going to be so excellent.

(Also: I felt it rather ironic that the author stressed the importance of true hygge-filled homes being approachable and not magazine-perfect, whilst all the pictures she shared were exactly the later. I wanted to see more lived-in homes!)
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waxflower | 2 reseñas más. | Jun 1, 2018 |

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Obras
6
Miembros
49
Popularidad
#320,875
Valoración
½ 3.3
Reseñas
5
ISBNs
10
Idiomas
2