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1.0 out of 5 stars Is this for real???, Mar 11 2004

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This review is from: Home Swell Home (Hardcover)

This book was a disappointment. There is a small handful of good ideas (ie. using frayed denim as a bedskirt, paintng one wall a bright color and the rest of the walls white, hanging hooks on the bedroom wall to hang your outfit for the next day, etc.). However, the remaining totally absurd ideas, the constant suggestions of having a bar/minibar throughout various rooms of the house, the abuse to books (nevermind perhaps reading the books and enrichening oneself), and the flippant suggestions to just have your carpenter come over and do the work made me think the authors are just a bunch of arrogant mindless rich witches most likely on drugs. Not everybody can afford to own a place or hire a carpenter/contractor, especially during these times. The real creativity lies in making something wonderful with little resources. I also did not appreciate the broad generalizations they make and hold as truth, such as stating it is a known fact that people who can cook cannot make a good cup of coffee. Ehhh? I don't think so. This was the most irritating book to read, and I had to force myself to read it through to the end. I really felt like burning it when I finished reading. And I consider myself pretty open-minded.... It's amazing how much crap gets allowed to be published.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of time, Oct 31 2003

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niki (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Swell Home (Hardcover)

This book has dumb dialogue and so few pictures it's a shame to call it a design oriented book. The swell line is adorable and I believed this book to be something that would play off of that. It did not. It had absurd ideas, bland drawing, boring writing, stupid stories and little reference to anything related to interior design or the swell line. DISAPPOINTING. Don't waste any money or time on this book.

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1.0 out of 5 stars cloying and silly, Sep 23 2003

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lulu (San Francisco, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Swell Home (Hardcover)

theme rooms. Wow, nobody ever did that before. turn your kitchen into a spa with river stones in the sink! (even the themes they chose for the rooms aren't clever or even funny, they're just silly and childish.) Not only is this repetitive, unoriginal book overpriced, but they're selling a whole line of home items to go with it. As for the reviewer who said a person can get their own ideas by reading this, if you can't come up with better than this simply by recombining ideas from t.v., movies, and other decorating books, then there's no hope for you.

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2.0 out of 5 stars not so great
I was expecting more. For some reason I felt like this book would be more exciting and have better information. I was dissappointed. Read more

Published on July 19 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Swell!
This book was so much more fun to read than any other (home/interior). It gave me ideas true to teen spirit and inspired ideas true to ME. Read more

Published on July 2 2003