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Living Flea Market Finds
How to Restore and Display
by Caroline Atkins
Buy Flea
Market Finds by Caroline Atkins from Amazon.co.uk
(not available from Amazon.com).
 We
all love a bargain and most of us want to impose our individual
taste on our homes. What better way to save money and to show
our unique style than by buying at flea markets? By doing so,
we are even helping the planet by recycling old items instead
of buying new ones.
In this new book Caroline Atkins,
author of several books on decorating, gives us ideas for restoring
and using all kinds of flea market finds.
The format is simple question and
answer, much like the FAQs we are so accustomed to online. The
author tackles a wide range of topics including:
- how to cover drop in seats on
dining chairs?
- how to use samples of old wallpaper?
- how to tell the age of china?
- can old gardening tools still
be used?
- how can seashells be put to
decorative use?
- how to mend cane or wickerwork?
Each chapter deals with a different
kind of item like Textiles, Wood, Leather and Ceramics. In every
chapter the author includes information on traditional ways to
clean and renovate your finds. She also tells you when it is worth
getting something professionally restored instead of risking damaging
a potentially valuable piece.
This is a lovely book for everybody
who frequents flea markets, garage sales and car boot sales in
search of beautiful bargains and then wonders what to do with
them once you have bought them.
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Quick Facts
Title: Flea Market
Finds
ISBN: 1855859602
Author: Caroline
Atkins
Publisher: Collins
and Brown Ltd
Number of pages: 160
Binding:
Hardback
Price: £17.99
Published: 12th
September 2002
Copyright © 2002 by Carol
Fisher All Rights Reserved
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