Describes the country look, and demonstrates restoration techniques for buildings and their furnishings

This handbook provides home owners, who like the country theme in their home furnishings, with a complete, practical guide to restoring and styling. The book demonstrates a host of inventive ideas, is illustrated with diagrams and photographs in step-by-step form on tinted stock, and has a 24-page section on DIY techniques for surfaces, furniture and soft furnishings. The illustrations show houses that people actually live in - not just room sets, in many eclectic styles, from oak-beamed English Tudor to austere American Amish. By the author of The Book of Candles.

Featuring more than 500 full-color photographs and illustrations, and providing not only ideas but practical, step-by-step directions, The Country Home Book is the first complete guide to restoring, decorating, and furnishing a home in the popular country style.

In this memoir/design book, Emmerling takes her readers sleuthing and partying at Round Top antiques fair; reminisces on her days at Mademoiselle, House Beautiful and other top magazines; shares oodles of her favorite things; and shares personal, fresh country decorating in her own home and those of a few close friends. MARY EMMERLING is an iconic innovator of American Country style. She has authored 30 previous books, including Art of the Cross, Turquoise, Skull, Heart, and Buckle and most recently The American Flag: Art, Design, Fashion. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. REED DAVIS is an editorial and commercial photographer living in Los Angeles and New York.