The Hidden Art of Homemaking

By Edith Schaeffer

Book Overview

A timeless guide to creating a beautiful home that inspires the imagination and nourishes the soul.

What if your house could be more than just a place you occupy? What if it could be a haven for meaningful living, personal enrichment, and creativity? Edith Schaeffer provides a wise guide for anyone wanting to pursue artistic expression in their ordinary, everyday life--regardless of how creative they perceive themselves to be.

With practical advice, biblical insight, and eye-catching illustrations throughout, this book will expand your idea of what it means to be a homemaker as it covers how:

We reflect the character of our Creator through interior design, music, cooking, and moreChristians can shake off the lie that art is only for the talented and create beauty amid busy, mundane livesTo foster an environment that engages all the senses and cultivates a delight in God

Whether you're a man or a woman, married or single, you don't need to daydream about when you can build a home--and a life--of creativity and fulfillment. You can start today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842313982
• ISBN13: 9780842313988
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

This book is a little slow to start but excellent!

This book is so good! It's a little dated but regardless holds wonderful truths to how our lives can reflect God's beauty and art to others. Love it!

Excellent book

Excellent book

Inspirations and blessings

I read this book when I was newly married, in 1980, and this book has been a great inspiration for my life as a woman, a wife and a mother.Edith Shaffer is the wife of the well known Christian philosopher Francis Scaeffer, and they have together built up the L'Abri community in the Swiss Alps.Edith Shaeffer says herself about this book: I would define hidden art as the art found in the ordinary areas of everyday life. Each person has, I believe, some talent which is unfulfilled in some hidden area of his being - a talent which could be expressed and developed.Jesus tells us in the Bible to use our talents, and Hidden Art gives us some great help on this road. I remember when I read it the first time my favorite part was where the writers tells us about taking small children to long services and how to help them to stay concentrate and listen to what the preacher preach. I was not a mother myself then, but I was a Sunday school teacher, and all the children in my Sunday scholl became familiar with the drawings I had learned from Edith Shaeffer.Other areas the writes tells about are music, painting, interiior decorating, gardening, creative recreation - to name a few.I'm rereading this book now after more than 20 years. It is lent, and for me lent is a period where I try to find time to be more quiet and live closer to God and the meaning he has for my life. There are many books helping me to walk this road, and Hidden Art is a wonderful book sent from the Almighty God.Britt Arnhild Lindland

The Best Homemaking Book I've Read

I read this book many years ago. It summed up a beautiful philosophy of homemaking, one that needs to be heard in our day. I had been scoffed at for my choice of staying home with my children, but no one scoffs anymore. Now, after years of following my heart, I have four great children and a beautiful home. I started simply, with ideas including Mrs. Schaeffer's ideas, and the Lord has blessed our family. This book is a must-read for every woman who needs to get a vision of what her home could be. It was wonderfully pleasant to find a kindred spirit in Mrs. Schaeffer...to find someone who agreed that the beautiful things in this world are God-sent and should be echoed in our homes.