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Create a stylish home without breaking the bank. "Cheap Chic" shows you how to combine well-chosen high-street basics with individual finds to create a relaxed and welcoming home. Emily Chalmers and Ali Hanan reveal the best ways to invest a modest budget and how to combine colours, textures and materials with confidence. The first section, The Elements, looks at colour, pattern, fabric and window treatments, then moves on to furniture, storage and display, accessories, lighting, materials and flooring. The second part of the book, The Rooms, contains chapters on relaxing, cooking and eating, sleeping, bathing and working at home. "Cheap Chic" concludes with a source directory to help you track down all those sought-after items.
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Emily Chalmers is a stylist and writer. Her work has appeared in several magazines. She runs the design store Caravan. Ali Hanan writes for publications including Elle Decoration and Livingetc. Together they have written Contemporary Country and the bestselling Flea Market Style (both Ryland Peters & Small).
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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Though this is a nice book with some lovely evocative (and very carefully lit) photos, plus various useful tips, there is an underlying flaw. And it's a big one. These ideas work if the reason you are strapped for cash is that you've laid out every penny on some gorgeous period building with wonderful light, good architectural detail, and bags of atmosphere. It's all very well putting a few battered pieces of vintage furniture in an empty room on a bare floor if the walls are Georgian panelling and the floor is oak boards. Try the same approach in the kind of house that most of us can afford, and your visitors are likely to wonder if you live in a squat.
I would also take issue a bit with what the authors call "cheap". There are some very expensive bathroom fittings in the bathroom section, and using a 1950s medicine cabinet for your bits and bobs may save money on a swanky (and naff) fitted cupboard, but you'll need to scrimp when you've blued a grand on the bath.
More than anything else this book makes me think of that "Harry and Paul" running gag about the shop in Portobello called "I saw you coming". Maybe I'm being unfair and there is a real market out there amongst people in London with bags of taste, enormous mortgages on crumbling period houses, and no idea what to do with the interiors, but for most of us it's just a case of 'dream on, mate'.
I would also take issue a bit with what the authors call "cheap". There are some very expensive bathroom fittings in the bathroom section, and using a 1950s medicine cabinet for your bits and bobs may save money on a swanky (and naff) fitted cupboard, but you'll need to scrimp when you've blued a grand on the bath.
More than anything else this book makes me think of that "Harry and Paul" running gag about the shop in Portobello called "I saw you coming". Maybe I'm being unfair and there is a real market out there amongst people in London with bags of taste, enormous mortgages on crumbling period houses, and no idea what to do with the interiors, but for most of us it's just a case of 'dream on, mate'.
Format:Paperback
This really didn,t teach me much .I used to go around the junk shops as a child with my parents as money was tight and as an adult I have continued to do the same as money is still tight so I am used to making and doing and rehashing stuff for a new purpose the photos are lovely in this book but it really hasn,t taught me much that I didn,t know already..
Format:Paperback
This was exactly what I was looking for - a beautiful book that gives great ideas about decorating your home, making it look gorgeous while staying practical & cheap. There are lots of glossy pictures which helps for inspiration. This book also makes a lovely gift - I bought one for a friend's birthday and liked it so much, that I had to buy one for myself!
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I am very pleased with the purchase. I received the book in great condition, on time and in good price. What more can I ask!
Published 8 months ago by eleni
I loved this book!
This book is perfect for what I needed! I really like the practical suggestions that are easy to follow! I would recommend this book to anyone on a limited budget!
Published 8 months ago by Ffions Mammy
Gorgeous
This little helper motivated and guided me to get some nice new pieces for my flat.
There are some great examples of deco and lovely inpirational photos!
There are some great examples of deco and lovely inpirational photos!
Published 16 months ago by V. Castan
cosy and shabby
Very sweet decoration book, with cheap ideas and friendly atmosphere. I would love to see some more contemporary stuff in combination too...
Published 22 months ago by Ifigenia Mataraga
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