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    The Whimsical Home: Interior Design with Thrift Store Finds, Flea Market Gems, and Recycled Goods
    The Whimsical Home: Interior Design with Thrift Store Finds, Flea Market Gems, and Recycled Goods
    The Whimsical Home: Interior Design with Thrift Store Finds, Flea Market Gems, and Recycled Goods
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    The Whimsical Home: Interior Design with Thrift Store Finds, Flea Market Gems, and Recycled Goods

    By Susanna Zacke and Sania Hedengren

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    Vintage clothing, vintage décorit simply never gets old and continues to be one of the hottest style trends! Now, you too can create a beautiful vintage home environment that is sure to be the envy all your peers. In The Whimsical Home, master crafters Sania and Susanna show us five different homes furnished with different vintage pieces. Each chapter ends with tips to achieve these fun and whimsical looks. And the best part? None of these exquisite looks will cost you an arm and a leg. Chances are you probably already have a lot of key pieces just lying around your home. Sania and Susanna will show you exactly how to use them.
    Crafts include:
    Concrete candle holders
    A stool decorated with domino pieces
    A picture made of potholders
    Follow Sania and Susanna as they travel from home to home, casting in concrete, crocheting, sewing, building, painting, and revamping. Learn how to mix and match unique flea-market finds with modern furniture, and how to reuse old trinkets you may have lying around your house. Be inspired by Sania and Susanna’s expertise and advice. Let your imagination run wild; the sky is the limit. Your house will be beautiful, unique, and the envy of homeowners everywhere.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateNov 17, 2015
    ISBN9781634508834
    The Whimsical Home: Interior Design with Thrift Store Finds, Flea Market Gems, and Recycled Goods

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    Book preview

    The Whimsical Home - Susanna Zacke

    IT’S FINALLY HERE, The Whimsical Home, and what a great feeling it is!

    We wanted to continue to inspire all our readers and share our beautiful surroundings, unique projects, handy hints, inspirations, and ideas for all sorts of handiwork, because we love our work so very much. Our creativity continues to flow and new and exciting projects are constantly popping up. In this book we focus on revamping five homes, which are all decorated with vintage style. Some of the designs are created with recycled materials.

    THE ROADSIDE B&B. Built in the early 1900s, this was once a bed and breakfast. This dream house is a true rural dream. Everything from the beaded wall panels, to the beautiful double doors, to the mullioned window has been preserved. The interior is traditional, old-fashioned, rustic, and filled with inspirational elements.

    THE SEASIDE COTTAGE. This home has unique décor that is both imaginative and innovative. It’s filled with plenty of inspirational ideas. It’s a functional abode utilizing a small area where the superb summer kitchen is a favorite.

    THE YELLOW HOUSE IN THE MEADOW. This is a cozy cottage with an uplifting interior where flowery patterns from the ’70s take center stage, and thrift store finds are everywhere. An old kiosk from the 1800s has been furnished into a guest cottage while a moped with a retro vibe drives along the gravel path outside.

    THE HILLTOP BAR. This small black house is newly built using timber, but all the beautiful mullioned windows are old. The bar is made from an old frame-and-panel door and the greenhouse is located close by.

    THE CITY VILLA. With large, magnificent windows, this newly renovated merchant’s villa maintains a traditional style. Amongst other things there’s a beautiful library and a modern bathroom featuring original details. Here, creativity really flows.

    Each chapter concludes with useful do-it-yourself ideas. We’ve casted in concrete, crocheted, sewed, built new things, painted, revamped old things, cut, glued, displayed, and decorated—all the things we usually get involved with.

    We hope that this book will serve as an inspiration to you to create your own ideas.

    Susanna & Sania

    ROADSIDE BED AND BREAKFAST

    Along a narrow, winding country lane lies this beautiful Falun red house that was once a B&B. During the early twentieth century many guests took a steamboat from Stockholm to spend a few relaxing summer days in the country. The house even had its own dance floor that was set atop a hilltop with stunning views. The orchestra would play at night while the well-dressed guests danced and enjoyed themselves. The dance floor still exists but is sadly damaged beyond repair. The house itself has now been made into a home and retains all the original features. When the house was built at the start of the last century, recycled materials were already being used; windows and doors came from houses in Stockholm that had been pulled down. The building is long and fairly narrow, which means that many of the rooms are side by side and in between them are old double doors that must be several hundred years old. The current owners recently renovated the house and have taken care to maintain the original style.

    TIPS

    •   Spend time creating a welcoming entrance that will make you feel happy every time you come home.

    •   The plant support on the previous page is woven from willow.

    •   The enamel-covered tin is a great alternative to porcelain.

    •   Bunting is great outside, especially along the façade of the house or on the veranda.

    •   A garden geranium is a must outside a house like this.

    WEAVING IN WILLOW

    Weaving in willow is fun and exciting. You can buy willow at a garden center but you can also pick your own branches alongside ditches. Remove any twigs and leaves and you will be left with some good

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