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The winner is Brenda with Simple Pleasures! Congrats, Brenda, you’ve been emailed!
Country Living has been very generous with me, sharing their new books and letting me give ONE away to a reader as well. We all love decorating books and this is another one that is beautiful and inspiring. Especially if you happen to like the trend of decorating with white. But, even if you don’t there’s still plenty of color to be found in this book, so don’t let the title fool you. Stark white and nothing else would be a little bit difficult to live with. I love color, but I also love white backgrounds and this book has some great ideas for using white and mixing it all up with patterns and textures to create a lovely home.
The description on the back says:
A room dressed in white may be romantic, rustic, traditional, or contemporary, but it will never be dated. White is simply timeless. Through a wealth of photographs, ideas, and tips, you’ll see how easy it is to bring a white palette into any room to create fresh, comfortable spaces filled with character and warmth.
And again, the book is definitely not all about white, but gives many ideas on layering it all with color and collections.
You’ll get plenty of ideas and inspiration from the beautiful pics on every page.
Blue and white, a fave for many decorators for years.
Collections are another part of the book. I don’t have room in my house for collections this big, but they sure are prettily displayed.
If you enjoy farmhouse style and new country decorating, you’ll love this book and will be excited to have it in your collection.
If you’d like to win a copy of the book, all you have to do is leave a comment, again telling me why you like decorating books and what you’d like to take away from this one.
I’ll choose a winner in a few days!
Christmas in July! Is it too early to think about Christmas? Probably so, it’s really hard to think about it with heat and humidity going on, but here are a couple things to keep in mind WHEN you get ready to start thinking about Christmas this year:
I like to do small vignettes around the house, with bits and pieces of Christmas cheer, like in the window of my kitchen.
Adding Christmas dishes is a fun way to get in the festive mood for welcoming guests to your home. I can’t quite think about it yet, but it will be fun once again when the season arrives.
One of my sponsors, Payless Decor is having a Christmas in July sale this week and I wanted to tell you about it. All of the beautiful blinds in my home came from Payless Decor and I have loved them, they make my windows!
Here’s the code if you want to check out the sale: SH10XMAS713 for 10% off anything over $100. thru 7/25.
My shade of white is more a cream shade and it has been my “go to” color. Just painted my guest room with the north exposure that classic shade of off white. Perfect for my pops of color. I love decorating books and can spend hours looking at one. They give me confidence in my decisions.
I’m simply mad about decorating and love the books!
I want to put a quote on a window shade like in one of
the photos!
I love decorating books, and would love to win this one. I am planning on painting my kitchen and bathroom cabinets white and you love some inspiration.
I love white and I love decorating. I am actually currently creating a guest bedroom and have used a wonderful neutral white called 1/4 bison, a gorgeous bleached, sandy white. I would love a chance to win this book to help me with decorating ideas for the room and also other rooms I plan to re-decorate. When I moved into my house 3 years ago everything was selected in a bit of a rush, now I am moving through the house again one room at a time and so excited. This book would help me tremendously.
Lee 🙂
Hi Rhoda, I would love to win this book for inspiration. I have a large collection of decorating books that I look through and get motivated to clean and rearrange my things. Thanks for the giveaway!
After having a lot of color in my home, I’m thinking of transitioning over to a more lighter and brighter way of decorating. I’d love this book to give me some inspiration in decorating with a white walls and incorporting some of the items I already own. Plus, who doesn’t love flipping through decor books!!
I would love to win this book! I love to read and this gives me a reason not to do housework!
I am a huge fan of decorating books…so much inspiration inside the pages and Country Living books are one of my favorites. Since I have gone with the lighter look in my home…I’m sure that this book would give me more ideas for my home and we can never have to many ideas.
Blessings,
Linda
I would love this book! I’m starting to plan redecorating my dark traditional living room and would love to use some of the ideas in this book!
I LOVE decorating books and magazines. My husband thinks it’s an addiction, but I don’t care! Love to curl up in bed and look at all the details. Country Living is one of my favorite magazines, so would love to have this book.
I love decorating books and magazines. I like the inspiration I get from seeing how others put colors and things together.
Oh, my favorite thing is looking at magazines and decorating books. Country Living is my favorite and I cannot wait each month for it to arrive. I would love to have this book, because I am currently trying to soften all the colors in my house and use a lot of white. I am sure this would be so helpful!!! Your blog is great and enjoy it so much!
one of my alltime fave books is country living….i remember my mom and i pouring over issues and coming up with our own ideas for decorating. i miss those days with her. thank you for an opportunity to win! : )
Love Country Living. Would love a copy of that book.
I believe that your home is a reflection of who you are as a person. In my case, I like a home that feels warm, welcoming, comfortable, and well ordered. It’s important to me that my family and my guests enjoy relaxing in the spaces I create. I’m not a decorator and have trouble visualizing a complete room, then transitioning that feel throughout the house. Decorating magazines, books, and ideas help me focus on the components that to me make a home.
Love white and decorating books! Thanks for the chance to win! Always the best giveaways Rhoda!
I’ve always enjoyed CL decorating books. I use a lot of color in my decorating – love bright pastels, but always want the white in the mix to balance it all out.
I have always loved Country Living through the years. I love the idea of white decor especially with the added color of blue. I am wishing and hoping for a white kitchen one of the days. I would love to be chosen to win a copy of the book.
I just remodeled my kitchen with white cabinets, beadboard ceiling and white and gray cambria- love it!! I couldn’t have picked out all the elements that went into a complete remodel without the help of decorating books and blogs. Country Living is great- can’t wait to go to the next fair in Ohio.
I love using white in my decorating. The book looks great!