Title: A disappointment
Product review: After all the glowing reviews, I decided to get this book, and I am disappointed with it. There are no new ideas here (nothing I haven't seen for years in my favorite magazines and other decorating books). (A cake stand as a soap dish? Gee, I think I got that idea out of Better Homes and Gardens or House Beautiful, like, ten years ago!) The settings look fussy, busy, cluttery, and old ladyish. My mother might like this book but then again she might not. Nothing new and kind of a throwback to where decorating was several years ago. I suppose the book is really intended as a kind of catalog in disguise, since it was done by a store owner,so maybe I just expected too much.
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