Crafting a Meaningful Home: 27 DIY Projects to Tell Stories, Hold Memories, and Celebrate Family Heritage [Hardcover]

Meg Mateo Ilasco (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2010

As the second decade of the 21st century begins, we’re more compelled than ever to find refuge in our homes and personalize our living spaces with DIY projects that celebrate who we are and where we’ve been. In Crafting a Meaningful Home, Meg Mateo Ilasco shares 27 projects that tell personal stories and celebrate heritage, all easily created on a budget. Learn how to decoupage a plate with photos of a best friend; silkscreen upholstery with folk motifs; artfully display love notes; sew a teepee from a vintage quilt top; or create family silhouettes for a festive banner. Contributed by a hip cast of well known designers from across the country, the projects are, at once, nostalgic, sentimental, and modern. Clear instruc­tions are easy to follow, even for beginning crafters.

Praise for Crafting a Meaningful Home:

"[Crafting a Meaningful Home] can serve two purposes on your gift giving list. If you have time, make one of the projects from the book. If not, give the book itself. It's beautifully photographed and written, and the projects are incredible." 
--PopSugar Rush TV

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Meg Mateo Ilasco is a designer, writer and illustrator. She is the principal of Mateo Ilasco, a design studio in the San Francisco Bay Area that creates paper and home goods. She is the author of Craft, Inc. and the follow-up Craft, Inc. Business Planner, as well as the upcoming Creative, Inc. (which will be released by Chronicle in September 2010, around the same time as Crafting A Meaningful Home) and Space Planner: A Home-Decorating and Design Workbook. She writes a monthly business column for Design Sponge and hosts Modern Economy, a series of on-site and online sample sales for independent designers. Visit her website at mateoilasco.com.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: STC Craft/A Melanie Falick Book (September 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158479867X
• ISBN-13: 978-1584798675
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.8 x 9.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #797,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Meg Mateo Ilasco is a writer, designer, and illustrator in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the principal of the eponymous stationery and housewares company, Mateo Ilasco . She's authored several books including the best-selling business book "Craft, Inc."

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice read April 13, 2011

By AnnMeow

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

The book comes with some beautiful projects and very nice stories of people who created them. However if you look for a more project-focused book I would say this might fall a bit short as the instructions might not be detailed enough for beginners. I really enjoyed the stories bit though, as the title says, they're all very meaningful and every project has a background to it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars ok March 25, 2012

By booklover

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

Not exactly what I was looking for. I found two projects, so I will copy them and pass this book onto some of my more crafty friends.

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice, concise, and varied. May 22, 2013

By Jade

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I purchased this for the instructions on the doiley rug. I haven't started or finished yet, but the book itself is like anyother crafty book, there's a lot I wouldn't do for my own home, but it's nicely assembed, instructions are good, just don't expect to want to do every craft listed in there!