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Thrifty Chic

Interior Style on a Shoestring
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Thrifty Chic by Liz Bauwens and Alexandra Campbell is a delightful guide that explores creating stylish home environments on a budget. The authors present innovative and practical ideas for upcycling and repurposing items, blending vintage charm with modern aesthetics. Each chapter offers inspiration and tips for utilising what you already have to achieve a chic, personalised space.
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You might enjoy this book if you love creating stylish interiors without spending a fortune. It offers inspiring ideas and practical tips to transform spaces using DIY projects, upcycling, and smart shopping for vintage finds. Perfect for anyone keen on blending creativity with budget-friendly decorating.

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Learn how to reuse, recycle, restyle, restore, and revamp your old furnishings to create a stylish and unique home, without spending a fortune! Whether you are on a tight budget, or simply want to give your existing home a new look, Thrifty Chic

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Learn how to reuse, recycle, restyle, restore, and revamp your old furnishings to create a stylish and unique home, without spending a fortune! Whether you are on a tight budget, or simply want to give your existing home a new look, Thrifty Chic provides a treasure trove of ideas at your fingertips.

Divided into 7 chapters, Thrifty Chic will take you through everything you need to know to jazz-up your home. Starting with "Elements of Design", you will learn how to utilise fabric, paint, windows, frames, lighting, and more to make the most of your environment.

Then, room by room, each chapter will show you how best to pull together mismatched items into cohesive schemes, how to upcycle furniture, and how to introduce some clever ideas for storage. You will learn how to create certain styles in your home, from French-inspired antique chic to the cosmopolitan eclectic and the steel-finished urban cutting-edge.

You will even gain insider tips on what to look for at antique markets and in thrift stores, and how to care for and restore your bargain purchases.

Packed full of irresistible designs, and with a final chapter detailing how to do the projects yourself, there will be no stopping you from creating your perfect habitat.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782494973

Publisher: Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 November 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CICO Books

Illustration: 200 col photographs and artworks

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 958g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Liz Bauwens is a freelance stylist who has worked for House and Garden, Good Housekeeping, Country Homes and Interiors and Habitat. Liz has also opened her own store, Otto Trading, which is filled with a unique mix of new and vintage homeware, glassware and furniture, as well as cards and one-off gifts. Alexandra Campbell is an author whose work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The Times Magazine, The Financial Times 'How To Spend It' magazine and The Daily Telegraph. She is also the author of nine novels and now blogs at themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk, an award-winning gardening blog. Together they are the authors of Flea Market Chic, Country in the City, and Upcycled Chic and Modern Hacks, all available from CICO Books. Liz Bauwens lives in west London and Alexandra Campbell lives in Kent.

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