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Garden Style: Decorating Ideas for Indoors & Out (Better Homes & Gardens) [Paperback]

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Book Description

April 15, 2002
Shows how gardeners, designers, and other individuals use indoor and outdoor spaces, plants, furnishings, art, and accessories to express garden style year-round in any region.

First book to distinctly identify and define garden style as more than a trend—rather a design approach with staying power.

Builds on gardening as the country’s number one pastime and, now, as a leading design inspiration.

Five before-and-after makeover projects inspire readers into action.

Helps readers create garden rooms in every room of the house and bring the outside inside year-round.

Four sections: "Creating Fresh-Air Spaces" (decorating porches, patios, decks, potting sheds, and outdoor rooms), "Bringing the Outdoors In" (decorating every room in the house, even foyers, powder rooms, and nurseries), "Living the Garden Life" (profiles of garden style from Connecticut to California in urban, suburban, and rural settings), and "Sources and Inspirations" (top resources in every region for decorative furnishings, accessories, and plants).

Special attention to porches, patios, and decks.

Ideas range from clever and casual to elegantly formal.

A list of 300 national resources helps readers easily find products across the country.

Shows the array of furnishings, plants, and accessories from home and garden centers and catalogs.


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Product Details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens (April 15, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0696215616
  • ISBN-13: 978-0696215612
  • Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 9.1 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #736,352 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars A soothing, restoring sojourn in a fantasy land, January 17, 2008
This review is from: Garden Style: Decorating Ideas for Indoors & Out (Better Homes & Gardens) (Paperback)
I have a single favorite place for soul restoring. It's a local plant nursery, but this one is more than that. The owners frequently change and update and relocate plants, garden items, things that hang on walls, in trees, nestle against fences, dangle from ceilings, embrace the earth, cozy in planters with fellow plants and dazzlingly different plants. The place has so many cubbyholes. After I wander this fairy world of greenery and flowery boudoirs, I leave refreshed, my mind ready for more of the knocking about that the world outside brings.

A second choice is a book like "BH&G Garden Style." I can sit with a book like this and imagine life in one of these pictures of garden comfort, inside and out. This is not plant gardening but the comfort of resting and entertaining and playing next to a garden, in a garden setting, just being outdoors or indoors with the ambience of outdoors. I have numerous books like this, but "Garden Style" is really special because it has such rich, imaginative, calming, creative rooms inside and out that are "garden style."

The important selling point for a book like this is how doable are the looks. There are actually affordable decorating tips here. Let me show you what I mean. Randomly opening to p. 38, I find a wicker chair with a side wooden stool, simple design, with a potted pink geranium and a colorful birdhouse. These items are available at local do-it-yourself stores or as is in others. Then surrounding the chair and stool are containers and containers of more potted pink geraniums, pink petunias, junipers, broadleaf plants--all in blue or white or clay pots, creating a calming scene to sip tea and read a book.

Here's another on p. 79. Take a small drop-leaf table, paint it white, put it in a nook or empty corner or wall, add matched botanical prints, two mismatched but coordinated chairs, and top the table with an assortment of plants for a quiet garden look in the midst of indoors.

One more: a mini-greenhouse in wrought iron filled with potted flowering plants set against a large window, anchored by two wicker chairs upholstered in green and white. A lovely garden look (p. 105).

I am currently creating a cottage garden outside my patio where I feed the birds. Some of my ideas come from this book. See you later outside for tea and Pennyroyal dumplings from my herb book, or maybe herb scones from a scone book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Quick shipping!, January 7, 2012
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Product arrived in condition described. Good job packaging. I didn't expect item until right before Christmas; I got it with two weeks to spare. Thank you!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Better Homes and Gardens never disappoints!, February 10, 2008
This review is from: Garden Style: Decorating Ideas for Indoors & Out (Better Homes & Gardens) (Paperback)
I own many of the Better Homes and Garden books and have never been disappointed in their style.

This book, as the title states, is about "Garden Style. It is a hardback book filled with many colorful photos.

The book is divided into different areas regarding either living with the "garden style" or creating the "garden style" in your home.

There are a few BEFORE and AFTER photos included in the last chapters, but mostly, this is a pictorial book showing how to use garden accessories, and/or garden structures in your home , your porch, your shed, and/or your garden.
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