Product Description

It's easy and fun to create innovative and distinctive items for the home and garden using balustrades, mantels, doors, and other architectural details removed from buildings and homes that have been renovated or demolished. Each of the 45 projects has been designed to showcase the recycled item to its fullest potential, and while the "look" of each detail has been retained, be it distressed or paint chipped, each piece finds a new purpose that is both functional and artistic.

Product Details

• Published on: 2001-06-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

From Library Journal
These books provide a multitude of projects to transform items found in salvage yards, thrift stores, flea markets, and yard sales into beautiful decorative accessories. In Junk Chic, Elliot uses her own home as an example of what can be done with cheap finds, and the transformation is quite remarkable and innovative. Powell focuses on how to incorporate flea market finds into decorating schemes, illustrating her suggestions with color photographs and interspersing projects throughout. Rhatigan discusses items found in architectural salvage yards where pieces of houses wind up before demolition. His projects range from simple (transforming a metal porch support into a corner shelf) to more complex (building a blanket chest from salvaged doors), and safety tips on working with metal, glass, and wood are provided. Though for each book, too few illustrations are provided with the well-written directions, skilled crafters will still find the projects here useful. Recommended for public libraries where there is an interest.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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