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Rustic Revisited: Innovative Design for Cabin, Camp, and Lodge

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Pictures were well done but I wish someone that writes in this genre, would do a book on cabins and retreats that the average person could own. Most of these books cater to the wealthy rich folks and show lodges that most of us will never see let alone own.
Give me a book that can help me arrange a rustic decor, Just a couple of those out there. A book on the average fishing and hunting cabin like the ones I remember from childhood would be a dream!

What a great book! I bought it to give as a gift and ended up keeping it for myself. It's filled with beautiful photos of rustic style in all its forms: including Adirondack camps, lake houses in Wisconsin, Western lodges and Southern cottages just to name a few. I got many good ideas from it, and will be buying more copies to give to friends. I highly recommend it.

This book portrays a vast amount of information on lodge-camp- and cabin style.

Ann O'Leary identifies the historical as well as specific decorating details necessary to achieve these fabulous lodge and camp looks. This is a very in-depth, extensively well researched and beautifully written book! Well done!

I'm going after a look I would refer to as Contemporary Rustic and I thought the book might have that angle. While in my mind the contemporary version of this style would still lean heavily on the use of raw, local materials, it would trend away from the cluttered, animal-themed look that is clearly a traditional aspect of the rustic style.

This book has stunning images and if I were building a home or changing my home's exterior in any way, the structures are gorgeous and nearly any one of them would easily fit my concept of contemporary rustic. However, with a few exceptions, the interiors still drew heavily on the traditional qualities of the rustic style that I dislike - use of animal heads and other body parts, "themed" rooms with animal printed fabrics, and so forth. Wouldn't hand spun wool and organic be the truer (and more beautiful, in my opinion) choices for a rustic feel? And as is often typical with design books, most of the homes are very large. It's hard for me to take what I see and scale it down for my average suburban ranch home! The description of rustic in the beginning of the book is well written and was helpful for me to understand some of the nuances of rustic that I could really appreciate.

Many design ideas can be obtained from this book if you are remodeling or building a cabin.

The photography in this book is beautiful as are the homes. I live in a cottage on ten acres and I have used some of the ideas I have seen in this book. Mostly it is just a pleasure to look through. I leave this out on my coffee table. My friends enjoyed going through it as well. One friend liked it so much I purchased another for her as a gift.