color, pattern, shape, texture, bright, easy, comfort, style, This is your source for real-life ideas and inspiration for creating a living space that matches your lifestyle and your budget. From picking paint colors to mixing patterns to arranging furniture, we put the real in Real-Life Decorating smart, livable, savvy, inspire, transform, doable, unique, fresh, genuine, cozy, warm, gracious, clever, authentic, creative, lasting, brilliant, friendly, storage, family, new, display, spacious
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Ideas include whole-room schemes, as well as dozens of small ideas readers can adapt to warmaand charmatheir homes.

Covers the range of styles from rustic to refined.

Helps readers find ideas and adapt them to create the cottage-style of their dreams, no matter where they live.

"Finding Your Style" tip boxes throughout the book move readers from inspiration to action.
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Designer and decorator Carolyn Westbrook's love affair with all that is French inspired began long before she ever traveled to France. Growing up in the US, her Southern heritage was infused by French influences--from the chic elegance of New Orleans to the romance of southern plantation houses. Subsequent travels to France filled her with a passion that has influenced her designs and interiors ever since and "The Fren...
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Charles Faudree has elevated French Country style to a fine art. With an exuberant decorating attitude based around his favorite principle that "too much is never enough," Faudree has achieved an international reputation for creating settings that have all the elegant accoutrements of a French Country estate, lacking pretension but never charm.

With a discerning taste for the eclectic, Faudree is a master at one of the main tenets of this style-combining traditional prints, patterns, colors, and textures with just the right furnishings. Faudree has always been drawn, almost charisma...
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