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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!
Thanks for the chance to win!! I’d like to do something in my great room…everything open can be tough!
Looks nice a great book! Would love to have one sitting on my coffee table.
I am a self proclaimed Schizophrenic decorator who can’t commit to one style. I am constantly buying and then regretting. I am in desperate need of help putting all these different pieces together into a comfortable casual elegant southern style; afterall, that’s what southern living is all about! This book doesn’t happen to come with a design team, does it? We can start with the living room and then move on to the adjoining room with an identity crisis (can’t decide if it’s a dining room or a study).
The holidays are coming and we all know that means guests…. Please help!!!!
Looks like a wonderful book to peruse! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
This book looks like it is filled with great ideas! I would love to spend hours studying every page! We are now empty nesters with all 3 children now out of the house, so spare bedrooms need updating and would love to repurpose one of the bedrooms into a craft room/office.
Oh my… I saw this at the bookstore just yesterday and flipped through it. I had already put it on my WISH LIST!!
Thank you for the giveaways you always offer. It would be hard to choose a particular room to redecorate as I am trying to gradually transition my very traditional southern home with accents of a more modern updated feel. Southern Living does give you great ideas for this process.
OMG! I love this book…looks like lots of ideas I could use in my new home.
Rhoda, I think all my rooms need a little redo. My kitchen badly needs a facelift. Sometimes, when I watch the tv shows about home sales and the first thing the young couple says, ” I have to have GRANITE and STAINLESS STEEL”. I think how did we ever survive without GRANITE and STAINLESS STEEL? Does my pot roast taste less yummy because I cooked it on a plain white cookstove and served it on formica countertop? I would welcome the chance to browse the pages of the Southern Living Book. Thanks !
I need to take a chainsaw to my kitchen… this book looks like the perfect place to start for some inspiration-
My bathroom counters are the most dated.
I love looking at inspiration photos!
Most-in-need of a sprucing is my central living space. Recently retired from traveling the world, newly grandparented; we find our longings are to gather our children and spouses and grandchildren in one wonderful room, having a space of comfort and beauty in their absence! Perhaps an impossible dream..but extraordinarily fun to ponder.
Love everything Southern Living does because it is authentic to how we actually live as well as classy and do-able! Thanks for the opportunity to enter.
Southern Living is my eye-candy for the soul, so I would love to use these inspirations on my upstairs media room. Thanks for a great giveaway,
My bedroom hasn’t changed much since we moved in 12 years ago. I would love to have some ideas for updating it!
My family room needs an update. It’s the first room people see when they walk in, it’s the access to the kitchen and it’s where we all hangout.
Its needs some major Southern Living Style TLC
Looks like the perfect book! I love Southern Living.
I would love a copy of this book for inspiration! I am really wanting to update my living room and master bedroom. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Am beginning to redecorate a little carriage house or pied-a-terre in the midst of an historic town. Looking for ideas!!
Love the “southern” inspiration and classic looks that Southern Living shares with their readers every month. Now, a FAB book that will be a wonderful addition to my decor library! Hope I win this!