The photographs and step-by-step guidance featured inside make it easy, fun, and affordable to create the kind of breathtaking, practical home you've always dreamed of. Shabby Chicthe rich, inviting, practical, time-worn style created by one of Americas top designers, Rachel Ashwell, is a style of living that reflects the grace and simplicity of another time.Now you can do more than just dream of living in a Shabby Chic home. A space where fresh flowers stand in antique jugs, complementing furniture covered in soft white denim.This gorgeous volume will teach you how to recognize beauty in often overlooked places.

A place where children's dinners are served on mix-and-match antique plates at a table covered with lace from a renovated curtain set. This is a journey in pictures and words, following Rachel through the fields of a little town called Round Top, home to one of the largest, most eclectic and vibrant antiques and flea markets in the world, and then. In Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Treasure Hunting, Decorating Guide, Rachel takes you on a tour of flea markets and secondhand shops to give you a behind-the-scenes look at her process for finding vintage treasures-materials, furniture, and decorations-so that you can design a Shabby Chic home.As Rachel reveals, the Shabby Chic principles-comfort, function, and beauty-mixed with a dash of imagination and courage, and an understanding of how to spot a fabulous buy, will allow you to create a home that is beautiful, comfortable, and inviting. Rachel Ashwell Shabby Chic Treasure Hunting + Decorating Guide (1998 Harper) HC. Rachel Ashwell Couture Prairie takes her signature pastels, ruffles, and whimsical prettiness right to the heart of cowboy country. It helps the healthiness both of body and soul to live among beautiful things.-William Morris, 1882Shabby Chic-the rich, practical, and time-worn style created by one of the world's top designers, Rachel Ashwell, mixes new and gently used items to create original, refined designs.

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