Product Description

The simple home is calm and uncluttered, with each item carefully chosen. Mark and Sally Bailey believe that good design means furniture and decoration that is useful, durable and honest. In the first part of the book, they explore calm Colors, Zen-inspired simplicity, and reclaimed or ethically sourced Materials, while Craft embraces the artisan's skill. Comfort means cozy textiles and warm wood, while tips from the Natural Cleaning chapter will nurture your home. Furniture is often multi-functional, and Curating Your Home looks at arranging your cherished collections. The Baileys then turn to Simple Spaces, showing you how to create welcoming Entrances, versatile Cooking and Eating spaces, Living Rooms with a great mix of personal items and adaptable furniture, soothing Bedrooms and tranquil Bathrooms. Finally they cover furnish Work Rooms with rescued desks and fittings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4773 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 148 pages

Customer Reviews

The Bailey's have done it again!
This is an excellent follow on from "Recycled Home". Outstanding ingenuity in the use of overlooked but beautiful materials and shrewd understanding of industrial edge antiques makes this book a pleasure, and one is able to glean many ideas applicable to one's own home. The art of presentation is superb, to the extent that the rooms and homes presented feel utterly natural, unpretentious, and effortless. A cut above the plethora of average interiors books floating around at the moment. This and Recycled Home are now my favourites in a largish collection.