Customer Reviews

It's All in the Details: A Decorating Workshop (House Beautiful)

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I would have given this book five stars...had it not been the first time I'd seen the material contained within it's cover. You see, I own several House Beautiful books that focus on decorating small homes/rooms. Unfortunately, MANY of the ideas in the book had beeen seen before in House Beautiful's other small-home decorating volumes and magazines. Alas, I felt as if I was re-reading a book that I'd JUST purchased!

Although the photographs are indeed lovely and some of the suggestions practical and quite useful, ultimately you need to SEE this book at a bookstore in order to give it a quick once-through to be certain that you don't already have the images and information other similiar books by House Beautiful have contained. Several of the pictures looked familiar and sure enough...when I checked, they were indeed duplicates from previous works.

Essentially, if you don't already own a book of this fashion, it's a fabulous purchase that will be sure not to disappoint you, but check and re-check it's pages at your local bookstore if you are a regular House Beautiful customer.