Garden House: Bringing the Outdoors in

By: Dahan, Bonnie Trust

Book Overview

The garden house is a restorative sanctuary that combines the best of indoor comforts with the sunlight and greenery of the outdoors. Lushly photographed, "Garden House" is an inspirational guide to re-envisioning the home with a gardener's eye. From the simplest of concepts (placing potted aromatic herbs beside the bathtub to perfume a morning shower) to more elaborate ideas (creating an indoor hammock haven for napping in sun-dappled style), "Garden House "offers ingenious ways to make a place for the spirit of nature inside. It includes an inspiring text and page after wonderful page of innovative touches suitable for any house or apartment. Organized by home activity, such as bathing, working, relaxing, dining, sleeping, and dreaming, "Garden House" is brimming with original and easily adaptable ideas that will enhance the way you experience home. When did we decide being inside means shutting out the pleasures of nature? It's high time to blend gentle breezes with an air of sophistication.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811819108
• ISBN13: 9780811819107
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

evocative, comfortably stylish, gorgeous rooms and pieces

I first saw this book in Restoration Hardware, where I was working at the time. It was an *immediate* hit with the style conscious staff. One woman got a dreamy look on her face as she read it "I could live in any of these" and I know exactly what she meant. It is of particular interest to those in Northern California as many of the resources listed in the back are local to us. A charming and keepable book.