Welcome Home [Hardcover]

Emilie Barnes (Author), Anne Christian Buchanan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 122 pages
• Publisher: Harvest House Pub (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565075862
• ISBN-13: 978-1565075863
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,555,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent - a must read for those who love their home!, July 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Welcome Home (Hardcover)

As always Emilie Barnes has once again written a wonderful book! Welcome Home reminds us that as women it is our responsibility and privelege to create a refuge for our family and loved ones. Welcome Home encourages one to create your home into a place of beauty, where our loved ones can be nourished, encouraged and find peace and acceptance.The artwork is beautiful and suggestions for entertaining are excellent! This book would be a wonderful gift for a new bride, house warming gift or a special gift just for you! Thank you Emilie for all the wonderful books you have blessed us with. God Bless!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Emilie, you classy lady--you just get better with time!, February 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Welcome Home (Hardcover)

Some of the pictures in this book first appeared in a spread that Better Homes and Gardens published of the "Barnes Barn." It's obvious that Emilie and her husband not only enjoy making their home colorful, comfortable, and beautiful, but also a place that they can't wait to share with others. While my personal decorating style is more streamlined than Emilie's, I share her love of company and hospitality. Hope you will, too. . .

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book for a beautiful home., December 26, 2000

By 

K. L Sadler "Dr. Karen L. Sadler" (Freedom, Pa. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Welcome Home (Hardcover)

I put this book on last year's wish list and kept it there hoping someone would take the hint and buy it for me. My mother got it for me for Christmas this year, and I can tell it will be much used and appreciated. I chanced across this book, but at my time in life when my children are almost raised and I am almost finished with my schooling and embarking on my science education /bioethics career I am finding I want to make my home more orgaqnized and more homey for me to come home to. I am not a natural homemaker with an eye to placement and beautiful things. My mother is, as is Emilie Barnes. Some of us need a little help because our talents lie elsewhere. This book can be viewed for the way the Barnes have decorated their homes, and the writing is geared toward giving ideas for how to run a house more lovingly and cleanly. When I have time to do these things, I want to do them right. This book is loaded with ideas, plans, and future thoughts for making an individual house a home.

My only problem with this book is the one I have with Martha Stewart also...some of us just do not have the time or money to put that much effort into these things. Some of it is jealousy I suspect, on my part at the relative ease with which these people are able to use such unbelieveably unfair talents. Some of it is the emphasis that some of us choose to put on other parts of our lives. I want a beautiful home, but I want to be realistic too. Sometimes it seems as if realism does not enter into the thoughts of the author of this book. It is an outstanding book from an outstanding homemaker. Karen Sadler, Science Education, University of Pittsburgh