{"product_id":"9780062267443","title":"Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Treasure Hunting and Decorating Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eShabby Chic—the rich, inviting, practical, time-worn style created by one of America's top designers, Rachel Ashwell, is a style of living that reflects the grace and simplicity of another time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow you can do more than just dream of living in a Shabby Chic home. You can create one yourself. With invaluable treasure hunting advice and tips for essential materials, furniture, objects, and decorations, you can live a life of simple, but rich, beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith her practiced eye Rachel takes you on a tour of flea markets, antique malls, and a variety of secondhand sales— estate, tag, yard, church, garage—to demonstrate how, with a little taste, imagination, work, and ingenuity, you can turn trinkets from the past into treasures for today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Rachel sifts through the discarded, the crumbling, the shabby, she takes you step by step through her personal process, sharing how you, too, can spot a fabulous buy, repair and alter it, and by following her guideline words—\u003ci\u003ecomfort\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003efunction\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ebeauty\u003c\/i\u003e—develop your own distinctive, original look that is down-to-earth yet truly exquisite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing her sensible advice you can exchange the anonymity of mass-produced furniture and home accessories for unique, inviting surroundings for a fraction of the price and decorate comfortable, livable rooms in which family heirlooms blend with flea-market finds and the new combines gracefully with the well worn. Lavishly illustrated with lovely and informative photographs and drawings, \u003ci\u003eRachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Treasure Hunting \u0026amp; Decorating Guide\u003c\/i\u003e shows you how to have the home you've always dreamed of, a place where children's dinners are served on mix-and-match antique plates at a table covered with lace from a renovated curtain set with unironed linen napkins. A space where fresh flowers stand in antique jugs, complementing comfortable furniture covered in crisp white denim that is enhanced with each laundering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Rachel, Shabby Chic is not just a style. It is a way of living. With her trademark warmth and charm she reveals how she sleeps on embroidered antique linen and dresses in cashmeres and bias-cut silk dresses discovered in vintage clothing shops and flea markets. Throughout, she teaches you how to recognize and appreciate beauty in unlikely and often overlooked places, as well as how to define and refine your individual taste.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021641007344,"sku":"9780062267443","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062267443_p0.jpg?v=1763627677","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062267443","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}