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Downtown Chic, Designing Your Dream Home, From Wreck to Ravishing

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by Robert Novogratz, Cortney Novogratz, Elizabeth Novogratz

Cortney and Robert Novogratz are a fabulous husband and wife design team that have been renovating their own homes for the past 15 years! Their style is a mix of boho chic with thrift store finds and antiques. This book offers tips, ideas, quotes and huge photographs of their work. This book motivates me to get my wishlist together and just start working on small projects one at a time, taking each step as it presents itself!

Not really a how to book, adding in their 7 kids this is more a story about their lives through their interior design process. A gorgeous coffee table book to inspire!

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Modern white kitchen with a few eclectic touches of color.

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Can’t go wrong with a popular union jack decorating element.

white eclectic living room

A white basis in the walls, floor and ceiling combing with pops of bright primary colors and arcade games for a retro vibe.

orange bedroom

Chic, warm orange bedroom. Love this big picture of their twins!

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Cork board and blackboard decorating element that also helps you get organised!

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Vintage salon with light powder blue walls and antique pictures and furnishings.

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Check out that mirror!

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Comic books used as art to line your walls with!

(All images Sixx Design)

Bazaar Style: Decorating with Market and Vintage Finds

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Bazaar Style: Decorating with Market and Vintage Finds by stylist Selina Lake and interiors writer Joanna Simmons.

Real homes furnished with intriguing pieces from different eras and cultures, which mix and match colours, patterns and designs. The look is so achievable because anything goes! Simply take the things you love and create a home that is truly yours. You’ll discover an inspiring mix of vintage and retro influences, flea-market finds, and pieces inspired by a French brocante or Moroccan bazaar.

This book is full of vibrant, fun and fresh inspiring ideas for the eclectic, bohemian home. If you love flea markets and thrift shops, finding rare retro and vintage, one of a kind things for your home and combining it in creative ways with what you already own, then this is a great decorating book for you!

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Bazaar Style Decorating with Market and Vintage Finds selina lake bedroom

Bazaar Style Decorating with Market and Vintage Finds selina lake dresser

Retro Turquoise and White Kitchen

Amazing and fresh kitchen in white and turquoise with retro elements:

The punchy turquoise hue of the vintage-style appliances puts a chic spin on this coastal kitchen. A tumbled-glass backsplash mimics natural sea glass and contrasts sleek concrete countertops.

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Red Retro Kitchen

Kitsch red and white retro kitchen, loving all the vinyl from the floor to the chairs to the tables. Red enamel kitchen in 40’s retro style and pretty white and red polka dot curtains!
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Shabby Chic Kitchen in Pastels

Gorgeous shabby chic kitchen in cream and pastel colors: pink and aqua. Lovely ornate elements painted over in a soft cream, a chandelier hangs from the ceiling, retro kitchen aid appliances in pink enamel. Pastel pink vinyl covers the chairs and stools, pastel aqua walls – I am in LOVE with this pretty little kitchen!

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