Tattered Treasures: Stylish Decorating with Flea Market Finds [Hardcover]

Lauren Powell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 2001

Enjoy your treasured collections, favorite items, and must-have finds with the help of enchanting full-color photographs, creative tips, display ideas, and plenty of projects. Create crackle and distressed finishes to "age" furniture. Use an old chair as a display stand for a special object. Artfully arrange a collection of interesting bottles. Wrap a small gift in a lovely vintage handkerchief. Recycle broken pieces of treasured china into a china-shard mosaic table. Embellish a basket to make an eye-catching centerpiece, or update a lamp with a fabric cover. An empty portrait frame can become a unique corkboard, and an old fireplace screen gets a new life with a stenciled design. You'll love decorating your home with these inexpensive, easy, and fun schemes and suggestions!

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

These books provide a multitude of projects to transform items found in salvage yards, thrift stores, flea markets, and yard sales into beautiful decorative accessories. In Junk Chic, Elliot uses her own home as an example of what can be done with cheap finds, and the transformation is quite remarkable and innovative. Powell focuses on how to incorporate flea market finds into decorating schemes, illustrating her suggestions with color photographs and interspersing projects throughout. Rhatigan discusses items found in architectural salvage yards where pieces of houses wind up before demolition. His projects range from simple (transforming a metal porch support into a corner shelf) to more complex (building a blanket chest from salvaged doors), and safety tips on working with metal, glass, and wood are provided. Though for each book, too few illustrations are provided with the well-written directions, skilled crafters will still find the projects here useful. Recommended for public libraries where there is an interest.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

No room-by-room rehabilitation of found objects for Georgia artist Powell. Instead, the focus is on groups of like items--lamps, metal ware, and wooden chairs--and how to "revive" them. Color photographs take up most of the space; a bakers' dozen or so of make-it-yourself ideas and directions allow readers the luxury of simply browsing or actually doing. Her creations are wondrously whimsical and imaginative. Barbara Jacobs
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (June 30, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806929650
• ISBN-13: 978-0806929651
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,125,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thought Inspiring How To's, April 4, 2001

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Ann Barnes (St. Simons Island, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tattered Treasures: Stylish Decorating with Flea Market Finds (Hardcover)

A wonderful book for everyone who decorates to have on their coffee table. This book features how to display collections, take flea market finds and uses them in an imaginative and creative way. What a wonderful way to decorate using tattered treasures that have the gift of a story with each piece displayed in your home. This author really has tremendous vision in her tattered treasures, whether they are family heirlooms or found at a flea market. This is a must have book!!!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beauty Handled Enjoyed Bit Bruised Still Visually Inspiring, October 24, 2003

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This review is from: Tattered Treasures: Stylish Decorating with Flea Market Finds (Paperback)

Folk art has 3 characteristics: it is useful, made by anonymous artisans and is inexpensive.

Vintage fabric, architectural refuse, wood chairs, china, glass, containers, photos frames, metal work, lamps, shells embellish homes' visual universe with color, shape and a sense of human interaction. The background of our lives and human relationships are recorded in the objects we create, handle, use daily. That history charms and warms our homes and Tattered Treasures celebrates the broken pieces for their evocation of people and times past. Full page photos of chips, dings, warped and loved mementos. A book to reminisce by. Enjoy.