{Giveaway is Closed}
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!Â
Here’s the code if you want to check out the sale: SH10XMAS713 for 10% off anything over $100. thru 7/25.
I have always been a fan of the cottage look and shabby chic, and woud love to get some more ideas on how to incorporate more white into my rooms, to further the cottage look.
I am on Linked in and coming up with a website to do business coaching. It is almost ready but not yet published.
I do not have a blog but LOVE decorating and craft blogs.
Yours is one of the first that I subscribed to. I would love to decorate with white but have been hesitant to take the plunge.
I would love a copy of this book. I am in the midst of updating my kitchen from golden oak cabinets/cheap formica to beautiful quartzite countertops and am in the middle of installing a subway tile backsplash (for a “white” kitchen look)! Sound familiar? I love decorating and I am sure I can get some wonderful ideas from this book, it would be such a great help to me! Thanks so much!
I love decorating and keep a stack of decorating books on my coffee table. This looks like it would be a great book with a lot of ideas. It would be really nice to win one of the books!
Country Living is my fav!
I am always looking at ways to change, improve what I have and these days its often repurposing items from other areas. I love color and would be interested in Country Living’s invaluable ideas on decorating with white. A great coat of paint works wonders!
I subscribe to Country Living, but would love to have many of their great ideas and pictures in one place!
My husband wants to paint all our walls white!
Oohh!! This book looks gorgeous and I’d love to use the tips inside to furnish our new vacation home near the farm!:)
I love Country Living and would love to win a copy of this book!!! Your blog is one of my favorites and I always look forward to your posts. You are such an inspiration!!!!!
I absolutely love decorating books, I get some many ideas from them and they also keep me dreaming of my ideal home. Love your blog!!
Decorating books are evil. I should spend less time drooling over the pictures and more time actually cleaning! Country Living publications are the best.
I love decorating with white – can’t go wrong choice of color. I have several County Living books on display thru out our house and “Decorating with White” would be a wonderful addition. Love your blog, Rhoda!
I would love to win this book, I need inspiration for my bedroom re-do. Your Dad’s video was wonderful.
I have loved Country Living since they first started publishing years ago. I would love to get some ideas for our white plate collection.
We just bought a new (to us) house and I’m looking for any and all inspiration! The house is painted a neutral shade that has a lot of gold in it and we are planning on toning it down to a white shade to start fresh. Would love the book for some great ideas!
Rhoda,
I just adore reading your blog and have been a fan for many years. It has been such a pleasure watching you create a lovely new home for yourself.
I love home decorating books because they are so inspirational! They are such a nice way to spend a lazy afternoon with a cool glass of tea!
Thank you for sharing your creative life with all of us!
Annie
For 40 plus years I have been tearing decorating idea pages out of magazines and putting them in file folders. Fast forward and thank goodness for pinterest and the decorating books that are now being published. Between pinterest and my coffee tables I now have easy access to decorating ideas instead of rummaging through file folders 🙂
I would love to decorate my bedroom in white but need some inspiration! Would love to win this :0)
I wish I were brave enough to decorate my entire house in shades of white. Maybe this book would give me the fortitude to jump in!