{Giveaway is Closed}
One of the perks of being a design blogger is getting to do book reviews. And as a lover of Southern Living magazine, of course, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to check out a brand new book by the publisher of one of my favorite magazines. I’m a Southern girl, after all!
As a longtime fan of Southern Living, it was fun to open the packed full of inspiration pages of this beautiful new book and see it for myself.
You’ll find all sorts of inspiration ideas for updating your home. Gracious hospitality, warmth and effortless elegance signify great Southern style.
Tour the most inspired rooms that have graced the pages of Southern Living magazine in this 288-page guide and grab some great ideas for yourself.
Take a mis-matched group of items and learn how to use them together.
Turning a dining room into a sitting room is easy with a little guidance.
And how many of us have loved taking old cast-offs from the attic or thriftstore and repurposing them into something fresh and glam. Yes, we have!
Sharing updated ways of using old things, this book will inspire you too. I’m so happy to have it in my personal book collection as a reference guide and just to look at. I love pretty decorating books!
You’ll find:
- Defining Southern Style: From heirlooms to monograms, new ways to celebrate traditional icons
- Reclaim It: Tips to turn grandma’s attic finds into updated treasures
- Solutions from Top Southern designers for design dilemmas
- Style on a Budget: Identify individual style and build a room around it
- Why It Works?: Piece-by-piece deconstruction of rooms to show the key components required to achieve a particular look.
- Southern Style File: Black book of editors’ favorite designers, retailers, and more.
- Defining Southern Style: A glossary of helpful “decorator speak” terms.
The Southern Living publishers are allowing me to give away TWO copies to my readers! Squeeeeaaaal!!
I knew that you would be excited about that too, so all you have to do is leave a comment.
Tell me what room in your house needs updating the most and what you hope to gain from reading this book!
That’s it! Leave a comment and I’ll choose TWO random winners in a few days!
I would love some inspiration for my kitchen-we are trying to find things that the husband & I both agree on and this would be a great source for ideas!
What a fabulous giveaway!
Our master bedroom needs the most work. We have not done anything to it in the 4 years we’ve been married. My husband is deployed to Afghanistan and I am hoping to create a space for the two of us to reconnect that is full of southern charm!
I would LOVE this book since I always say my style is Southern Living. Some people get it and some don’t. 🙂
Almost every room could use some updating. I want to learn how to use the things I have that I love with some new (up-cycled) pieces to change things up a bit.
I have always loved Southern Living magazine…I subscribe ! So I know I would love the book. I live in Florida and this magazine
takes me all over the South-exactly where I was meant to live!
I always visit your blog-I enjoy seeing what you are up to Rhoda.
I know you have a great way of decorating and I love the yard sale posts you did in the past!
My most pressing room is the living room, dining room, kitchen. I guess that’s more than 1 room, but it’s a quasi-open concept. Having various fabric sitting on the sofa and dining room chairs for the last 2 months, samples of paint for the kitchen, and multiple cabinet knobs sitting on the counter is a tell-tale sign that I’m trying, but need some direction. Throw wanting to try chalk paint on a piece of furniture into the mix and I’m overwhelmed! This book just might inspire me to focus!
I would love to redo our master bedroom, as well as some side projects, such as recovering an old wingback chair and repurposing an old desk for an office cubby – always inspired by southern living!
Our media/family room needs some help. Hopefully, the book will show me how to bring all our mismatched pieces of furniture together to make a unified room!
I have been wanting this book!!! 🙂 We are planning to build a new house in the next two years and I want to get all of my thoughts together… so I guess my answer would be the WHOLE house! 🙂
thank you!
My kitchen needs a complete renovation and decoration. I would love to look at the book and dream.
Love this publication, so many great ideas.I would like to update my living room. Yippee skippee, so fun!
i´m planning to decorate my home office, im sure the magazine would give me some inspiration!
I love this book! I need fresh new ideas for my living room, it’s so drab.
My formal living room of my traditional Atlanta home that I am converting to a computer/office/reading/music room is what I need most inspiration for. Southern Living is my favorite magazine, since I am from Michigan it helps me get ideas for my traditional home.
I love Southern Living and would love to win!
What a great giveaway. I would love to make over my bedroom. Thanks for the chance to win.
My bathroom needs a little refresh!!
Every room in my home needs an update- it’s stuck in the 70’s. Room by room slowly but surely I’ll get it done. This book could help me to use what I have to minimize costs.
Who doesn’t love Southern Living? This is a wonderful giveaway!
The book looks amazing…I would LOVE to win it!! I would look for ideas to redo my kitchen. It has not had a “facelift” in years. Thanks for the chance to win.