Title: The rooms look too "studied" and too "new"
Review: Reviewers have been giving this book a hard time so I thought I should weigh in with my opinion. The rooms in the book don't look that bad, but they do look too "studied" and too "new," and that is what gives them the phony, showy, nouveau-riche look. I got the feeling that each room was almost created from scratch as if the people living in the rooms didn't start out with one decent heirloom or personal object. The author seems to have found rooms that generally show good use of square footage, so you can get some ideas from them. (I wasted money on this book so I am trying to make the best of it and glean what ideas I can from it.)
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