- Hardcover: 186 pages
- Publisher: Bulfinch Press,U.S.; illustrated edition edition (6 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0821227556
- ISBN-13: 978-0821227558
- Product Dimensions: 25.8 x 24.8 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,090,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A stylish guide to interior design offers practical and innovative solutions for pet owners on how to create a home decor for maximum human and animal comfort and offers helpful tips on how to keep one's pet-friendly interiors looking their best.
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Julia Szabo writes the 'Pets' column for the Sunday New York Post and the 'Truth in Decorating' column for Elle Dcor.
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47 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
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It's About Time, 14 April 2002
By Kay "keepitsimple" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Animal House Style: Designing a Home for Your Pets to Share (Hardcover)
Here's my take on some of the negitive comments made about this book - it may seem idealistic, but to me it's about raising the rep of "pet owner" to a new level, a higher standard. Working in an animal shelter as I do, I have seen what the author describes about abandoned animals and how easily they are discarded for frivolous reasons. I think a book like this is very needed not only to prove to people that owning a pet doen't mean being a dirty slob but it also reminds pet owners that they need to work out problems and try to think of creative solutions to issues they may encounter with their pets before they give up on a very special member of the family or resort to mutilating their animal (cat declawing). Not all of us can afford designer furniture, that's true, but I have enjoyed seeing the photos of these animals and their loving owners who are showing the world that Fluffy or Spot have just as much right to sit on that million dollar couch as they do. I have seen sloppy pet owners and I think we all need to be reminded that we have a responibility to keep things on a higher level for the health of the animal as well as the impression we give to others.
Any book like this that promotes adoptiong animals from shelters and giving them good, loving, healthy and above all PERMANENT homes is truly invaluble.
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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A great gift for the pet lover, 2 Nov 2001
By Emily L. "Emily L." - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Animal House Style: Designing a Home for Your Pets to Share (Hardcover)
I adore this book and plan to give it to all the pet lovers on my christmas list. It is so respectful and not condescending to animals and their owners, who sometimes go to great lengths to make their pets happy and comfortable. Owning pets should be a way of life, and IS a way of life for anyone that does it seriously and well. This book shows how people have opened their homes and their hearts to their animals through beautiful, unforgettable pictures and profiles.
49 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
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Stylish Read for fashion followers, 28 Dec 2002
By A. M. Thomas - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Animal House Style: Designing a Home for Your Pets to Share (Hardcover)
I should imagine this book is a great hit with the NYC apartment upper income bracket, who have pets as fashion accessories and treat them like animated teddy bears. (Most of the resource references are also in NY). Not that it's not a pleasant read, it's a stylish and entertaining book. It made me feel better about having slip covers on my furniture. The author got of the point at times and did the usual mini-lectures on pets put in shelters and toxic cleaners like the rest of us don't get it, but being politically correct is not the same undertanding the needs of real animals or the people living with them on a daily basis. The author may do work in "rescue" as she claims, but so can anyone. I don't think she understand the needs of real pets living real lives and probably none of the people who love this book do either. The author didn't offer anything I didn't know or hadn't tried (and didn't work). And some of the materials she raves about as coverings, were trashed by my two dogs in one afternoon. White slip covers ("you can wash them") Yeah, about 3 times a day to keep them white if you have a pet who gets on the sofa. Nice glossy coffee table book though.
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