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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Nell Hill's Rooms We Love - Mary Carol Garrity This is an inspiration book. I've been looking at several of these lately. They aren't things I would necessarily do but they are things that make me think about how I live. Decorating is not a talent of mine so I need guidance and these type of books make me look at my stuff in new ways. This particular book focuses on 4 houses specifically. While they are different types of houses, they are all decorated in what I would consider "traditional." To me that means partly elegant, partly cozy. What I always notice is the little reading retreats that most of these houses manage to work in somewhere. I envy a little private place to read. Several of the pictures in this book make me reconsider a few places in my house where I might be able to create one. The pictures are beautiful and there are plenty of them. The decorating looks above my pay grade but again, it's inspirational. I enjoyed looking through this and dreaming. This was provided to me through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. (58) Luxurious, light-filled rooms are the hallmark of this guide to elegant yet unfussy decor. Creamy tulips, gilded mirrors, ebony lamp shades, and overstuffed chairs welcome in the reader. Text is sparse, and many pages are dedicated to photos of a small number of homes designed by the Nell Hill group. This hyper-focus on just a few properties is a double-edged sword: on one hand, we really get to know a house in its totality. On the flip side, it means that at times, identical or similar images repeat throughout the book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In Nell Hill's Rooms We Love, we will see Mary Carol apply her Nell Hill's principles of design to new challenges. Even though design styles and trends have changed significantly since Nell Hill's Style at Home, Mary Carol's first book ten years ago, the rules that guide her approach to decorating have not. In this book, we will rediscover those principles at work in four very different houses, in addition to her own home. In the book, we will visit rooms inspired by the needs of each homeowner and will see how they transformed their rooms using Mary Carol's inspiration and "tricks of the trade." We will observe: * A century-old English Tudor in a city neighborhood, reinvented for empty nesters * A suburban tear-down that was rebuilt for a growing family * A home in the country, newly built but with an old soul * A sweeping country manor with one-of-a kind rooms While traveling through these homes, Mary Carol will construct the process and provide readers with the blueprint she uses for discovering personal styles. We hope you will be inspired by these rooms and will come away with creative energy to make your rooms beautiful, functional, colorful, and comfortable. Mary Carol Garrity and her staff at Nell Hill's work with thousands of customers each year to help them bring their homes to life. Mary Carol's passion is to work with homeowners to make the rooms in their houses beautiful, colorful, functional, and special. In Nell Hill's Rooms We Love, Mary Carol shares some of her favorite decorating solutions, showing her readers inside the homes of the clients she has worked with to help them bring their dreams to life. In this new book, Mary Carol deconstructs the process that helps her work with the myriad of decorating challenges from her customers. It is a big order to think about redoing a room in a house, committing to a paint color or wallpaper, dozens of yards of fabric, new upholstery, area rugs that you will be living with for a while, and the investment of dollars and time spent on the makeover. Mary Carol demystifies the process by showing us through rooms she loves and calling out details that go into making the room successful. Mary Carol defines success in decorating by working with customers to identify their own personal style. While the stores of Nell Hill's are packed full of great room settings, tableaus, and both big and little surprises, Mary Carol believes that people have a personal style that is uniquely their own. Her goal is to help you discover your own style by offering some guiding principles for your decisions. Mary Carol's Guiding Principles * Mary Carol believes that your style comes from mixing old with new, showcasing your keepsake treasures as well as your newly discovered surprises. * And she believes in comfort--providing spaces where you can sit down with a book and get cozy or where your guests will find a special amenity waiting just for them. * Mary Carol believes that a beautiful room always offers an unexpected delight. * She encourages you to bring the outdoors inside, using garden structures year-round in seasonal decorating. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is a stunning book to pick up and browse through, perhaps you would find a few ideas to inspire you - I don't think it's something that you'd read from cover to cover, or buy for your Kindle.
The photography is excellent, with prefect lighting in every shot, but for my taste, the rooms are rather over-filled with upholstery and ornaments. Some of the fabrics are also a bit busy. I love the author's aim of bringing the outside indoors, but there are rather too many floral fabrics and it's hard to keep fresh flowers looking good all year. I noticed that the same bunch of white tulips seems to appear in all the houses too!
These are not your average suburban semis, these are houses to drool over, with arches and space to spare. A book for when you feel like dreaming. ( )