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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!

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. . .

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

Well I checked this book out from the library. I kept renewing it so many times. I told my husband I want to buy it. That way I can highlight certain areas for me to back and look at again and again. I'm trying to get my husband to read it also. Because I'm trying to get him to understand the "open door" policy I want for my house. And Emilie describes it so well.

I received this book last Christmas as a gift and I took it on a trip and read the whole thing before I put it down. I have areas highlighted so I can go back time and time again for ideas. Emilie is a wonderful author and I would highly recommend this book for anyone who has an interest in their home and their family's lifestyle.

I found this book at a bookstore on sale and I love country decorating so bought it. That was about seven years ago and have worn the book out almost , so buying a new one today. Since that booksale I have bought more than thirteen books of Emilie's and have enjoyed every one of them ,some more than others but never the less I am still a big fan of Emilie's. Have learned so much from her books in decorating, cooking, and worshiping our Lord. As others have said she is a classy lady and so much of her goes into her books----Try it---you will not be disappointed-----

EXCELLENT! This book was exactly what I needed! I'm not gifted with a homemaking instinct. Emilie packed in this book hundreds of practical ideas that I could use to transform my house into a home and to make it a refuge for my entire family. She gives tips on decorating, organizing, hospitality, nurturing your family through your home, celebrating, creating a respite from the stresses of the world, and more. Easy to read, and easy to pick up and put down, the book is divided into very small, easily digestible sections.

Her decorating style isn't mine, but her tips are so universal that it doesn't matter. She gives concrete examples of how to incorporate her advice regardless of whether you live in your custom designed dream home, a small apartment, or anything in between. She invites you into her home through her stories and pictures, and through that I can just imagine what it must be like to be a guest in her home. Definitely something I would like to model!

This book would be a perfect gift to a first-time home owner. I really recommend it if you, like me, are seeking to add beauty, love and hospitality to your home. Thank you so much, Emilie, for addressing exactly what I have been seeking advice on for quite some time!

I love this old fashioned book about caring for the home! The world would be a better place if we all focused on making our homes our "havens." I LOVE it. Book was used and looked used, but in good condition. Shipping was very secure.

I could not put Welcome Home down. It is full of common sense ideas and ideas that you don't need to run out and purchase things. I've ordered three for Christmas gifts.