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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.

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.

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.

I was expecting more. For some reason I felt like this book would be more exciting and have better information. I was dissappointed. There is a book called Super Suite for teens that I really loved and they were positioned right next to each other in my book store. I opted for the teen book!

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. Much better than the original Swell book, the contents were organized well and practical tips for decorating were scattered throughout the book to keep away boredom. Not for people really into crafty home decorating though-although it may give new perspective.

I should have read the reviews before I bought this. It comes off as trite (no new ideas here) and more than a little tacky and cheap in tone. And the authors, if one can call them that, come off as snooty and self-satisfied. Sounds like a snooty little book for Yuppies in the 1980s -- definitely not the right book for TODAY. There are so many great decorating books out there. This is NOT one of them. I wasted my money.

I thought this book would be more inspiring and have more new ideas than than it turned out to have. Its philosophy and its ideas are no different than a lot of the decorating books and magazines I already own. (Do your own thing? Gee, I never heard that one before....) The book is kinda thin too. It's sort of a magazine more than a book and not worth the money.

This book doesn't contain very many pages. It also doesn't contain very many ideas. The ideas the book does have are old hat. And who are Cynthia Rowly and Irene Rozenweig?

And the concept is? I'm mad at myself for buying this. I'm tired of being sold meaningless concepts. I wanted a book, dammit. I want something meaningful, visual, substantial, and fun between the covers. Unfortunately, I didn't get that. This is nothing but some sort of silly push for a concept or product line created by what looks to be people who don' t have real homes or lives. Silly, meaningless, and superficial. What will they try to sell me next? An empty book? Well, in a way, that's what they sold me this time.

I love Cynthia Rowley and Ilene Rosenzweig's "Swell" series. I have every edition and must confess that I am a bit of a "Swell" addict. I found "Home Swell Home" really up my alley. I love home design and decorating. I love Cynthia Rowley. And, I love illustration (which is very glorified in the "Swell" series).

This great book is a mix between Martha Stewart (traditional) and modern chic. I find each idea very creative and while some thing's I would never attempt (way too "out-there") but there are many ideas that I have and WOULD do. I love their sense of fun about everything. From throwing a dinner party - to painting a room. It's all done with a sense of style and humor. I really love that and I will always try to bring that into my design and home.

Love the entire "Swell" series and I will continue to follow their work for as long as they do it.