House into Home By Elizabeth Kendall

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Elizabeth Kendall is well known for her articles in Vogue and her book is both stimulating and informative, a comprehensive guide for all home-makers, showing how easy it is to introduce style, colour and the right atmisphere into a house or flat, so that it becomes a ‘home’ and not just somewhere to live. The author gives practical advice about every subject she discusses.

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Pre-Owned. For instance, she explains how to make rooms look larger or smaller, cooler or more cosy, and ceilings to appear higher or lower as required. On Elizabeth Kendall’s advice buying new things for the home such as furniture, curtains, carpets and pictures can be made pleasurable and give lifetime satisfaction. She advises skilfully on the buying of furniture whether contemporary, reproduction or antique: where to go, what to buy and how much to pay. After two detailed chapters on curtains and covers, linen, and so on, the book offerssound advice on modern labour saving equipment in the kitchen. The author tells her readers how to transform what is so often a place of daily enforced drudgery into a pleasant place where, with good food storage, and time saving utensils, thoughts on new meals are possible. In good condition. Some tanning and foxing to edges and pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1962

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Weight 0.354 kg