Perfect English Cottage By Ros Byam Shaw
9781845979041 Features: Format: Hardcover. Expected Arrival Date: Between04/28/2012 and 05/03/2012. Return Policy: Non returnable. Perfect English Cottage
Delightful book about authentic, current cottage living. The author does admit early in the book, that our romanticized image of English cottages was not the reality to the poor landless families who resided in one room cottages over 100 years ago. Those squalid abodes have 978-1845979041 I loved this book. It is a slightly older edition but the style has not changed. I visited London in 1999 and the flat I was a guest at was cozy with that worn elegance. Pictures in this book are just as cozy and wonderful. I enjoy my coffee in the morning and have 978-1845979041 You can't judge a book by its cover, certainly applies to this one. The cover photo looks quite cheerful and inviting. There were a few other pictures that did as well. However, I found most of them to be decorated in rather drab colors. Although most, if not 978-1845979041
One thing I love about this book is that most of these artistic homeowners seem to have a similar design philosophy: see something wonderful, bring it home, make a place for it. There's no overall plan, just life as it happens. The style is personal, comfortable, but not 978-1845979041 Another book of lots of nice pictures, brought to printing by the fashion for cottages and nesting. Admittedly, the pictures don't look as staged as most books on the subject. It actually looks like someone lives in most of them, and that the houses were not all done by a 978-1845979041 This book is not so much a decorating book as a tour of English cottages! I bought it because I though it was a decorating book. But, I enjoyed it as a delightful tour of cottages from humble to country house chic. I liked how each cottage owner was introduced. And, I liked 978-1845979041 Americans have renewed their love of English country homes partly due to the impact of Downton Abbey, but this book is obviously not about the oversized manor home. Instead, it's a delightfully written and photographed account of English style as interpreted in the iconic 978-1845979041 This is a nice book. Not exactly what I was looking for. The cottages in this volume are a little too rustic for me, but I can see the English desire to maintain these quaint structures and keep them alive by actually dwelling in them probably has saved many from 978-1845979041