{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!
The master bath needs HELP!
My living room needs some serious help! It’s awkward for me to design because of the corner fireplace. Plus, it’s just plain boring, so that is the room I would choose!
I would love to find some fresh new ideas for my guest bedroom makeover. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I have been a southern living fan for many years, the books they have are always very practical and helpful.
Great giveaway as usual! Thanks!
Mary L
My bedroom really needs updating. It’s a comfortable room, but, I need some inspiration to update furniture, fabrics.
I have several Southern Living books, even though I live in a small mountain town (pop. 5,441!) in Northern California. I enjoyed warm hospitality when I lived briefly in Texas long ago, and years later I had the joy of developing and teaching a 7-week class on hospitality at my coastal CA church. I’m always looking for fresh and fun ways to infuse more “inviting” into the rooms of my home. Thanks for offering this giveaway, Rhoda. I so enjoy your blog!
Our master bedroom desperately needs a lift!
Simply love Southern Living and am SO HAPPY they are still publishing it!! Next up on the hit list is our dining room/tv nook. It’s on long room and it is complicated – 6 doors and 5 windows.
Probably the dining room!
Beautiful book .. Love Southern Living!!
Thanks!
A beautiful new home with a pitiful quest room in which there is a shaker queen bed, an antique dresser and a red velvet, horse hair loveseat….HELP! The dogs don’t even like to go in there!
Hubs and I downsized 4 years ago, and still have a lot of stuff that looked really great in the bigger house, but not so good in a small one! Our living room could really use some help! This book looks like it has some amazing ideas, and we could use any help we can get!
I LOVE Southern Living! I am currently giving my office and kitchen a mini-makeover, so this would really come in handy! Great giveaway!
I would LOVE to win the new Style book! I have been looking for some great ideas to freshen up my family room and dining room.
Southern Living is my favorite! I would love to win the new Style book!
Do I really have to pick just one room??!!! They’re all in need! I love Southern Living! They always stir up my creative juices! The book is bound to be fabulous!
My master bedroom and half bath downstairs. I can tell more often what i don’t like rather than what i do like – hoping this book would give me the decorating confidence to finish these rooms up! Thanks!
I need to redo our family room. Something a little more eclectic!
That book looks great!! I love Southern Living magazine but I don’t think I have ever seen their books other than cookbooks.
Several of my rooms need updating but the one I will be working on first is creating a home office.
My guest bath needs a new look sooooo bad! Hopefully this book will have some solutions for me!
I really need to work on my entry but it opens to my dining room and I am having trouble tying the two together.