Winter nights – and the imagination turns to home renovation. There you are, comfy cozy in bed reading a glossy shelter magazine – only to glance around your living space and sigh with resignation. Why can’t our own rooms look like the ones in the magazines?
Most of us live with possessions accumulated over the course of a lifetime – and not just our own. How then to make design sense out of the mish-mash of objets from your grandmother’s estate and the flea market finds and the vintage curios – and your latest purchase from Apple?
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Katherine Sorrell’s The Vintage Modern Home addresses these design quandaries, while offering a surfeit of practical solutions. A former Associate Editor of Homes & Gardens magazine, as well as a frequent contributor to leading magazines and newspapers, Sorrell has seen it all and made design sense of it.
Loaded with 310 color illustrations, Sorrell’s 192-page design guide recommends assessing what you have and then considering your own sense of style. What Sorrell is arguing for in these pages is that it’s possible for us to enjoy the modern world’s technological advances while surrounded with some of the best design treasures of the past decades.
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While Sorrell’s viewpoint is not exactly revolutionary, the cumulative effect of the photographs and Sorrell’s prose is to make us better appreciate homes that successfully celebrate the past while embracing the future.
In short, while we all want to be comfortable, we don’t want to become Miss Havisham. Sorrell offers more than 20 case studies of rooms to provide solutions for creating order out of our heirlooms.
After all, home is where the heart is – and Sorrell’s The Vintage Modern Home helps us make that home happy.
