Salvage Style in Your Home: Stylish Projects and Inspirational Ideas for Using Rescued and Recycled Objects to Decorate Your Home [Hardcover]

Moira Hankinson (Author), Nicholas Hankinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2001

Salvage Style in your Home shows you how to give new life to everyday objects that seem to have reached the end of their usefulness.

Over 30 original projects--from beginner to advanced--demonstrate the techniques and methods needed, and inspirational photographs illustrate the hidden potential of salvaged items and materials.

Discover the pleasure in finding a cast-off item, bringing out its inherent beauty, and transforming it into an attractive accent in your home.

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About the Author

Moira and Nicholas Hankinson left London behind and with it their careers in design and the art world. The call of the country took them to rural Somerset, England, where they set up their company, Somerset Creative Products, to produce an internationally acclaimed range of furniture and accessories for the house and garden. Passionate about their subject, they are well known as pioneers of reclamation, using salvaged wood, glass, and metal in many of their creations. Two of their previous homes, both restored using rescued materials wherever possible, have been featured in decorating magazines. They are also the authors of Garden Ornaments and have appeared on television to share their remarkable design ideas.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Press (May 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875969321
• ISBN-13: 978-0875969329
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 9.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #938,416 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect mix of beautiful photography & detailed info!, August 27, 2001

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ladybird (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Salvage Style in Your Home: Stylish Projects and Inspirational Ideas for Using Rescued and Recycled Objects to Decorate Your Home (Hardcover)

Salvage Style is the perfect book for anyone with a passion for recycling and a love of beautiful, creative things. It features gorgeous, decorator-style photos that provide plenty of inspiration, but it balances them with a wealth of information about the importance of reusing perfectly good materials and the process of doing so. All of the projects have detailed, step-by-step directions---complete with photos for the more visually minded folks out there---and most of them are easy to replicate. If you're looking to expand your mind and look at common materials in a new light, this book will fan the fires of your creativity in ways you never imagined!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars By another name, November 8, 2008

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D. Narum (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Salvage Style in Your Home: Stylish Projects and Inspirational Ideas for Using Rescued and Recycled Objects to Decorate Your Home (Hardcover)

This is a great book for anyone wanting to decorate using recycled finds. However, if you've already purchased books by these authors, save your money. Salvage Style for your home is the same material for the most part page for page as their book "Recycle" or maybe "Recycle" is hugely identical to "Salvage Style". A large portion of the pictures and pages are simply republished with a new title.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You can do it!, June 11, 2003

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P. Rudnicki "cynderela23" (Norfolk Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Salvage Style in Your Home: Stylish Projects and Inspirational Ideas for Using Rescued and Recycled Objects to Decorate Your Home (Hardcover)

A lot of the home decor books that come out have beautiful plans, that are virtually impossible for the average person to accomplish. This is not the case with Salvage Style in Your Home. All of the projects they show are not only easy, but very pretty too!

The pictures and instructions are very user friendly, and easy to follow. And the items that they use are not hard to find. It's not like when you watch a home decorating show and you think," I love how that looks, but where do I find it!? " The book uses things like slate roof tiles and axe handles to create the most appealing things. I mean, when you see how they use and old shutter to make a cd rack you will be amazed!

Salvage Style for Your Home is every frugal home decorator's dream book! It's a book of inspiration and I highly suggest you give it a read!