Southern Living Style

If you have a decorating guru (or wanna-be decorator) on your holiday shopping list, I have just the book for you! Southern Living Style (Oxmoor House, 2011) is the most comprehensive design book from Southern Living yet. This 288-page book is the definitive guide for creating unique spaces that portray gracious hospitality, warmth and elegance.

Here is the synopsis of Southern Living Style from the back cover of the book:

"This book will be your essential guide to creating the home of your dreams." M. Lindsay Bierman, Editor, Southern LivingThe editors of Southern Living magazine invite you into some of the most stylish homes across the region with more than 450 beautiful images that tell the story of Southern tradition and style.

• Get expert advice straight from our favorite designers on collecting, mixing fabric patterns and textures, and arranging furniture.

• Be inspired by more the 400 clever ideas to create your personal look, whether glamorous, traditional, or eccentrically chic.

• Uncover countless solutions for reinventing the pieces you already have in your home.

From inside flap:

Easy Updates* Room-by-Room Guide* Inspired Design Ideas*

Southern Living Style overflows with simple, approachable design ideas to help you create a beautiful livable home.

Brimming with gorgeous full-color photographs, Southern Living Style takes you on a tour of great Southern interiors--from the entryway to the home office and every room in between. Venerable Southern designers share their favorite tips for breathing life into personal spaces, including pointers on displaying collections stylishly, weaving heirloom pieces into more modern interiors and vice versa, and learning to work with what you already have or reinvent it altogether.

Browse through these pages and you'll find:

• An array of design tips to create stylish spaces

• How some of the South's best designers approach each room in the house

• Ways to reinvent heirloom pieces or flea market finds for a one-of-a-kind look

• Resources to help you every step of the way

I found this book to be an amazing wealth of decorating inspiration and information. It's full color photographs really illustrate the ideas they are bringing to you. I know I pulled out several ideas that I want to use in our home.

 Thank you to Rosen Group PR for my samples used in this review, opinions are honest.  Review by Michelle.

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