Vintage Vavoom: Romantic Decorating with One-of-a-Kind Finds

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 747
ISBN: 0307382745
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2007-12-31
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Release Date: 2007-12-31
DteCode: j01

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“If you love something, there is a place for it in your home. Follow your passions, whether displaying heirloom pieces connecting you to your childhood or a love for cooking, and translate them into your surroundings.”
—from the Introduction

We’ve all walked into homes that inspire us and tell us something about the owners’ personality and style. They contain those comfy, romantically stylish rooms where a petal-soft chair and a good book await, or where a cheerful row of aprons seems to dance along a wall. These homes draw us in, urging us to walk around wide-eyed at the eclectic blending of antiques and modern pieces, funky accessories, thoughtful collections, and interesting color combinations. Sometimes, they leave us thinking we could never be so creative or bold.

This book proves otherwise.

What is “Vintage Vavoom,” exactly? It’s a sleek glass table decorated with mismatched china, tarnished silver teapots filled with calla lilies, an antique chandelier hung unpredictably in a bright apple-green powder room. It is the items you love—many steeped in nostalgia—effortlessly combined with a fresh, modern sensibility.

Think textured fabrics, family heirlooms, clever little accents, and well-crafted furniture, linked together with a sense of playfulness.

Yet while the rules are loose, Vintage Vavoom is not about clutter or haphazard mismatching. Instead, seemingly disparate items are pulled together by an underlying motif—a punctuating color, a themed collection, or an era—that will subtly keep a room in check, even as you add personal flourishes throughout.

User Comments about the Vintage Vavoom: Romantic Decorating with One-of-a-Kind Finds

Even if you're not wealthy, you can still pick up used treasures, such as the ones shown in this book, and put them together to create a unique and pretty home.For example: An ancient, chipped flower box is set on an elegant dining table. There are tips on how to flea and how using treasures from your childhood can make your home special. Pink roses spill out of the flower box to create a really stunning visual statement. Vintage fabrics, many of them lovely with antique lace, can be put together with other fabrics to bring a sense of history to any room.

Colorful, large and bright.The book begins with an information chapter, explaining the purpose of this book. I think the photos in this book are what are truly amazing. This book is basically for the "beginner decorator" that wishes to decorate in the more "romantic style". The information itself, is slightly too basic though. However, if a person is a "beginner" in this area of decorating, then they will find this book very inspiring.The photos are simply amazing---just as the photos in the magazine ROMANTIC HOMES are. This book is quite expensive, so if you can find this book "on sale", I think it would be worth while, even for the advanced decorator.Why.----Answer: because of the amazing photographs. Thus, each Chapter in this book covers an area that is linked to the decorators' journal.

Advanced decorators might find most of the information redundant. Basically, this book is like a mini-workshop because it shows the reader how to put together a "Decorating Journal", in order to organize their decorating style , from start to finish. Most advanced decorators (of the romantic style) already know what they like, so this is why I state that this book is mainly for the beginning decorator.

My sister came over and together we looked through your fabulous book and were able to put together our own centerpieces using your ideas. I received it as a gift shortly before my wedding. Thank you so much for a wonderful book. When I went to my florist to check on the centerpieces I was devastated to find the shop suddenly went out of business. This book is the best. I had no idea what to do.

Buy a magazine and use your savings to buy one of those one-of-a-kind treasures. The writing style is grating: "vavoom" really is kind of a ridiculous word and gets old fast. Some pretty pictures, but not much else, and all of the pictures started to look the same to me after a while. The advice is the same-old, same-old. I don't like to be negative, but I also don't like to spend my money on something that's just not that great. I love a pretty book, but I didn't even finish looking through this one.

Got this book for my birthday, and I love it. Text is great, with wonderful ideas for making your home and life Vintage Vavoom. Pictures are from the magazine, but they are so wonderful.