Cottage Style: Ideas and Projects for Your World

Rating:
Summary: Cottage Projects
Review: I am a huge country and cottage decorating book collector, and I have to say this is one of my least favorite of them. There are a few really nice pictures of cottage rooms to inspire you, but mostly the book is filled with cutsie cottage type projects to do, such as making a bench, and clocks. I prefer books with lots of pictures that I can pick things out of the room that I think are beautiful and worth recreating in my home. I also prefer to find these things at flea markets and antique stores, not make obviously homemade reproductions of them.

Rating:
Summary: Cottage Projects
Review: I am a huge country and cottage decorating book collector, and I have to say this is one of my least favorite of them. There are a few really nice pictures of cottage rooms to inspire you, but mostly the book is filled with cutsie cottage type projects to do, such as making a bench, and clocks. I prefer books with lots of pictures that I can pick things out of the room that I think are beautiful and worth recreating in my home. I also prefer to find these things at flea markets and antique stores, not make obviously homemade reproductions of them.

Rating:
Summary: Full of ideas and inspiration
Review: I find that do-it-yourself decorating is more about finding ideas and inspiration than having somebody tell me exactly how to pull it off. Although there is a good deal of instruction in this book, I love it for for Jerri Farris' casual writing style and awesome "cottage style" room photos. The projects in this book are so unique and, although I haven't had the chance to do them yet, appear pretty simple. I'm especially anxious to try the "Teapot Lamp" project for my living room (page 111).

Rating:
Summary: Full of ideas and inspiration
Review: I find that do-it-yourself decorating is more about finding ideas and inspiration than having somebody tell me exactly how to pull it off. Although there is a good deal of instruction in this book, I love it for for Jerri Farris' casual writing style and awesome "cottage style" room photos. The projects in this book are so unique and, although I haven't had the chance to do them yet, appear pretty simple. I'm especially anxious to try the "Teapot Lamp" project for my living room (page 111).