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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.
Beautiful book! Yet another from Country Living. Love these big decorating books as a priceless design resource and to actually use in vignettes. Thanks for the opportunity to win this great book, Rhoda.
I love decorating books and refer back to them constantly. One of my favorite things to do with my sisters is go sit at Barnes & Noble and look at the books and drink coffee. Unfortunately most of them are too expensive to purchase 🙁
My mom subscribed to Country Living magazine as far back as I can remember. I luuuuuuv County Living and would luuuuuv to have this book!
Wow, what a beautiful book…please pick me!!
Love the book!! as I go closer and closer to a white house this would a fabulous guide! thanks for sharing.
I love and collect any type of creamware and ironstone so this book would be the greatest help ever!
Martha Bryan
Roswell, Ga.
I adore decorating books! I especially love looking at the displays of accessories and always get many terrific ideas for arranging accessories in our home. I would love to get this book to get ideas for furniture arrangement for our bedrooms I am hoping to re-do.
I love decorating books, I sit and look at them for hours, in fact when my step mom comes to visit we drink coffee and drool over the ideas in the books. I do not have one that focuses on whites, with two “white” rooms I would love some new ideas for the layering!
I love decorating books! Love to display them in my living room and look at them for inspiration!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I love decorating books. They’re a great source for ideas and inspiration. I would love to win a copy of this book!
I adore decorating books and use them as guides constantly. I have been a white fan for years and love to blend it with vintage decor.
I love to look at decorating books for design inspiration. I also love decorating with white. This is a beautiful book!!
I have subscribed to Country Living magazine since the ’70’s!! At this time in my life, I want the tranquil peace of white. I want different shades but need the help of this book to achieve it!!!
I love reading decorating books ! They make you dream big !!
Great giveaway
I’ve been slowly transforming my home into an (almost) all-white house! What a great book for beautiful ideas for every room (and every nook and cranny)!
We are getting ready to redo several rooms and this book would certainly come in handy!
Good Morning Ms Rhoda
My mama has been subscribing to Southern Living for as long as I can remember, growing up I would always get so excited when a new issue came in…I would flip each page with such excitement, wide-eyed and eager to hopefully someday have a beautiful home of my own to decorate like the ones in the magazine. My husband and I recently bought our first (and hopefully last) home this past September, and I would LOVE to have this book to inspire me to make my “magazine home” dreams come true.
Thank You for sharing all of your designing knowledge, you truly have an amazing eye for all things beautiful.
I have loved and have subscribed to Country Living magazine for years. I have a few of their decorating books. I would love this book also, thanks for a chance to win.
l love decorating with white, trying to go back to blue and white after a few years with fall colors, love your idas
I love to look to decorating Books/Magazines for ideas and inspiration. I have subscribed to Country Living since it started and still have the first magazine published. I would love to make our home lighter and cleaner appearing and this looks like just the book to help me create more white into our decor…
I would love to win the Decorating with White book!
Always enjoy reading your blog!
Katherine