Salvage Style in Your Home: Stylish Projects and Inspirational Ideas for Using Rescued and Recycled Objects to Decorate Your Home

by Moira Hankinson and Nicholas Hankinson

Book Overview

Step-by-step instructions and more than 200 photos of 30 do-it-yourself projects show readers how to transform rescued and recycled objects into chic, stylish decorative items for the home. Full-color... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875969321
• ISBN13: 9780875969329
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.2" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

By another name

This is a great book for anyone wanting to decorate using recycled finds. However, if you've already purchased books by these authors, save your money. Salvage Style for your home is the same material for the most part page for page as their book "Recycle" or maybe "Recycle" is hugely identical to "Salvage Style". A large portion of the pictures and pages are simply republished with a new title.

Covers the Topic Well

This book is a very good guide to recycling old items and creating new uses for them. Environmentalists everywhere will certainly appreciate the reuse of older items. The book is illustrated very well and the photographs are nicely done.

You can do it!

A lot of the home decor books that come out have beautiful plans, that are virtually impossible for the average person to accomplish. This is not the case with Salvage Style in Your Home. All of the projects they show are not only easy, but very pretty too! The pictures and instructions are very user friendly, and easy to follow. And the items that they use are not hard to find. It's not like when you watch a home decorating show and you think," I love how that looks, but where do I find it!? " The book uses things like slate roof tiles and axe handles to create the most appealing things. I mean, when you see how they use and old shutter to make a cd rack you will be amazed! Salvage Style for Your Home is every frugal home decorator's dream book! It's a book of inspiration and I highly suggest you give it a read!

The perfect mix of beautiful photography & detailed info!

Salvage Style is the perfect book for anyone with a passion for recycling and a love of beautiful, creative things. It features gorgeous, decorator-style photos that provide plenty of inspiration, but it balances them with a wealth of information about the importance of reusing perfectly good materials and the process of doing so. All of the projects have detailed, step-by-step directions---complete with photos for the more visually minded folks out there---and most of them are easy to replicate. If you're looking to expand your mind and look at common materials in a new light, this book will fan the fires of your creativity in ways you never imagined!