American Family Style: Decorating, Cooking, Gardening, Entertaining

Carter, Mary Randolph

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Studio

A passionate collector shares photos of her own finds, prices, a list of junking sites nationwide, general information on how to hunt for treasure at places like flea markets and thrift shops, and tips on haggling, cleaning, and camouflage. Reprint.

American Junk

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Collecting “junk” is hotter than ever, Now, with Big City Junk, the undisputed Queen of Junk explores exciting junking opportunities within city limits. In chapters such as “Tie-Died and Gone to Heaven,” “Fiﬁs on Fifth,” and “Storage House Rules,” Carter celebrates all the stuff that imaginatively challenged people deem to be junk but that can look like found treasure if given a good home—like yours. For everyone who can see the decorative possibilities of cast-off ofﬁce supplies, hotel dishes, deco furniture, and city souvenirs, Carter offers advice on where to ﬁnd the best items, what you should pay, how to think like an urban forager, and how to display your ﬁnds in true junk style. For city dwellers and their visiting country cousins alike, Big City Junk proves that America’s urban streets can be fertile ground indeed for decorators and bargain hunters.

Big City Junk

Home Improvement & Design

Clarkson/Potter

In more than 500 full-color photographs, Carter offers a treasure trove of ideas for every home, in every region of the country, in every season of the year, and for every holiday. A wonderful inspiration for readers who want to recreate the best traditions of country living in their own homes.

Entertaining & Holidays

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The Welcome Book

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

A guide to decorating the home using objects acquired at flea markets, auctions, and garage sales features before-and-after photographs, prices, a listing of auction houses, and tips on bargaining, cleaning, and camouflage. Tour.

Carter's advice on what to do with a corroded tool is useful; consult her list of junk shops quickly, before the owners decide they're hawking antiques.

Garden Junk

Literature & Fiction

A collection of color photographs of kitchen paraphernalia of years past, including dinette sets, porcelain-enamel tabletops, calico roosters, and old toasters, marks a guide that furnishes advice on how to price these collectibles, suggestions of where to find them, and more. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

Kitchen Junk

In an age of picture-perfect interior design, best-selling author Mary Randolph Carter celebrates her highly personal and creative approach to decor, illustrating how to live stylishly with the many items you want to treasure forever. Mary Randolph Carter's newest book indulges our desire to surround ourselves with belongings that impart beauty and meaning to our lives. Whether you are passionate about flea market thrifting, have a collection of pedigreed antiques, or simply find inspiration among the castoffs in your attic, this book is a tribute to making artful interiors with your acquisitions. With her trademark style and love of heirlooms and beautiful old objects, Carter delves into the interiors of real-life tastemakers (antique dealers, fashion designers, artists, and boutique owners) to explore how our homes are the perfect canvas for our self-expression. In these pages, Carter curates a variety of unique interiors, from a couple who restores and displays antique textiles and china to an anglophile with an incredible library of vintage books to an artist who lives with the old photos and maps he uses in his work to an antique dealer known for having multiples of everything. Carter muses delightfully on the universal desire to acquire while imparting her philosophy and tips for living creatively and integrating our passions stylishly into our decor. Chock-full of ideas and inspiration, this book exalts in the beauty of bounty and is sure to delight Carter's legions of fans.

Never Stop to Think... Do I Have a Place for This

Reference

Rizzoli

This stunning volume focuses on the qualities of the old things in our homes (the patina of an old table, pewter dulled by age, old floorboards that creak) and how to live with and incorporate them into our personal aesthetic. Divided into chapters by the qualities of old—peeling, dried, tarnished, faded, chipped, frayed, rusty, and mossy—this unique book not only pays tribute to furniture, textiles, china, silver and other accessories with these qualities but also shows us how best to preserve, adapt, and arrange them. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs that highlight the warm colors and rich textures of wood and paint, cloth and leather, For the Love of Old also includes ideas and recipes for saving old items from the junk pile, preserving and caring for the old things you have, giving newer things a lived-in feel, and bringing an enduring personality to every home.

For the Love of Old: Living with Chipped, Frayed, Tarnished, Faded, Tattered, Worn and Weathered Things That Bring Comfort, Character and Joy to the Places We Call Home (Rizzoli Classics)

Religion & Spirituality

Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts

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American Family Style: Decorating, Cooking, Gardening, Entertaining

American Junk

Big City Junk

American Family Style: Decorating, Cooking, Gardening, Entertaining

The Welcome Book

American Junk

Garden Junk

Kitchen Junk

Never Stop to Think... Do I Have a Place for This

For the Love of Old: Living with Chipped, Frayed, Tarnished, Faded, Tattered, Worn and Weathered Things That Bring Comfort, Character and Joy to the Places We Call Home (Rizzoli Classics)