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Flea Market Chic

Treasure Hunting for Stylish Homes
Brief Description
Bring texture, colour and depth to your home and embrace sustainable living with vintage finds. Flea-market finds are the perfect finishing touch to any interiors scheme. In modern rooms, a distressed chair or a vintage mirror bring much-needed character. And in traditional decorating schemes, faded textiles... Read More
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Bring texture, colour and depth to your home and embrace sustainable living with vintage finds.

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Bring texture, colour and depth to your home and embrace sustainable living with vintage finds.

Flea-market finds are the perfect finishing touch to any interiors scheme. In modern rooms, a distressed chair or a vintage mirror bring much-needed character. And in traditional decorating schemes, faded textiles and mismatched china are all part of the charm. Of course, Flea Market Chic is about sustainable recycling, upcycling and repurposing. But it’s also about a sense of history and place, about individuality and creating a home that reflects your life and personality.

Every piece has a story: the colourful jug you found at a car boot fair, the vintage telephone that belonged to a favourite aunt, the little chair you found in a village junk shop or the old dustbins that have been converted into fashionable zinc planters. In Flea Market Chic, we’ll show you how to spot the clever find in a pile of junk, where to look and how to negotiate, how to smarten up (and when not to smarten up) second-hand items and how to reuse things you already have.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781800653849

Publisher: Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CICO Books

Illustration: 250 col photographs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 960g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Liz BauwensΒ is a stylist who has worked for House & Garden, Good Housekeeping and Country Homes and Interiors. She is also the founder of online homeware shop Otto Trading. Alexandra Campbell’s work has appeared inΒ The Times Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Ideal Home and The Daily Telegraph. She runs The Middle-Sized Garden, one of the UK’s leading YouTube channels on ornamental gardening and garden design, and her accompanying blog has been featured in Vuelio’s list of the Top 10 UK Garden blogs.Β Together they are the authors of books includingΒ Simply CountryΒ andΒ Thrifty Chic, both available from CICO Books. Liz is based in London and Alexandra is based in Faversham, Kent.

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