Synopsis: If you long to give your rooms a vintage air and country-cottage appeal, you will love the retro floral prints and timeless designs of Home-made Vintage, your perfect guide to creating hand-made, easy elegance in your home. The book offers simple-sew projects to transform every room into the romantic retreat you’ve always wanted. In this step-by-step guide, Christina Strutt shows readers how to make a wealth of projects for the kitchen and bathroom, conservatory and bedroom and for giving as gifts as well. A skilled stylist and designer, Christina reveals how to create a look that is personal and unique, but not at all labour-intensive. Reusing old fabrics and accessories in new ways allows the vintage and modern to mingle beautifully and also saves money and time. The charming projects highlighted in this delightful book include crisp linen chair covers, a chic fabric headboard, pretty flower aprons, dreamy voile bed curtains and soothing scented pillows.

Hot Brands Verdict
This book is exactly what we love at Hot Brands, evocative, beautifully illustrated and full of wonderful original designs. ‘My passion is to make things beautiful’

We love the philosophy behind this book, as Christina explains, ‘Our passion for vintage clothing and charity shops is satisfying the need to own something different. Dressing in vintage clothing is one way of guaranteeing that you will never stumble upon your clone. But like all fashions, vintage and hand-made originals are a limited resource. So our only real option is to create our own generation of unique handmade pieces’. This book is beautifully illustrated with photography by Lucinda Symons.

Including over 40 projects divided into Living Room, Bedroom and Bathroom, Clothes and Accessories, Gifts, as well as Instructions, Templates and Stockists and how to display your collections.

There are so many fabulous projects you will be spoilt for choice. We loved the romantic Muslin Canopy, the floaty bedroom curtains, the stylish kitchen aprons, the delightful bags, “I’m of the opinion you can never have too many bags, hence the choice of three different styles’ and the practical fabric covered box-files, cushions, hot water bottle cover, and unusual accessories, and much, much, more.

If you are looking for inspiration this book should be top of your list. Highly Recommended!

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