Dress Your Dream Bed: Vintage Linen Inspirations for Today's Elegant Bed [Paperback]

Rita Farro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2002

Soft, luxurious, calming, the place people relax, unwind, dream, and rest. In this new home decor book, author Rita Farro presents unique and exciting ways to personalize and optimize the materials with which people dress their beds. Readers will learn everything they need to know about restoring vintage bedding for today's use, purchasing new bedding, and proper care of their sheets, pillowcases, quilts, and bedspreads. Farro expertly guides the reader from the basics, like thread count, fabric content, laundering, and the benefits of hanging bedding outside to more advanced topics like resizing vintage sheets to fit today's beds and embellishing new sheets to create family heirlooms.

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About the Author

Farro is the author of the best-selling Life is Not a Dress Size. She has appeared on television programs such as Sew Perfect and is a professional public speaker who travels throughout the country.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Krause Publications (May 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873493869
• ISBN-13: 978-0873493864
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,292,282 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It - A Great Resource, December 20, 2002

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Anne J (Cedar Rapids, IA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dress Your Dream Bed: Vintage Linen Inspirations for Today's Elegant Bed (Paperback)

I was so happy to read Rita's book. It is a great resource for bedding and fiber care, and also an inspiration. I learned so much about cotton, natural fibers and vintage linens. I also found a great use for my grandmother's linens that have otherwise been sitting unsed. Her personal style shines through in the writing. It's actually fun to read about laundry techniques. Who else could make detergent an entertaining subject?

I'm excited to use Rita's ideas for our babies' cribs. What better way to show our love?

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thinking outside of the box, December 19, 2002

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"lotuselan" (Napa Valley) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dress Your Dream Bed: Vintage Linen Inspirations for Today's Elegant Bed (Paperback)

There's more to Dress Your Dream Bed than just learning about how to buy new sheets. Although Rita covers all that basic information (cotton is good, polyester is bad) -- she really makes you THINK about the care you take with your bed. The book is organized and very well thought out. She discusses every aspect of creating a wonderful bed. The mattress, sheets, pillows, covers. THEN she goes on to explain simple ways to decorate the bed -- like, I NEVER would have thought about using a Christmas doily as a flat sham on top of my pillows. The pictures are great -- I especially love the brass bed with the baby in it, under the clothesline. Rita's writing is conversational and humorous, yet she makes the very important point that we often save our good stuff until it's too late. From now on I'm going to sleep on expensive 300-count cotton sheets every single day. Naked.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Changed my thinking about the family beds, December 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Dress Your Dream Bed: Vintage Linen Inspirations for Today's Elegant Bed (Paperback)

I saw Rita do a seminar in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.I bought her book that day, and read it from cover to cover. I laughed and I cried. More importantly, this book changed the way I look at my family beds. Now I wonder what my son will remember about his childhood bed when he grows up. I never thought about personalizing his bed -- or that it might be the feel and/or smell of the line-dried cotton sheets that he remembers when he's my age. I especially love the beautiful photographs in this book -- Rita put real people in her beds. And that's what it's all about -- the bed is the heart of any home.