Tattered Treasures: Stylish Decorating with Flea Market Finds
These books provide a multitude of projects to transform items  found in salvage yards, thrift stores, flea markets, and yard  sales into beautiful decorative accessories. In Junk Chic,  Elliot uses her own home as an example of what can be done with  cheap finds, and the transformation is quite remarkable and  innovative. Powell focuses on how to incorporate flea market  finds into decorating schemes, illustrating her suggestions with  color photographs and interspersing projects throughout.  Rhatigan discusses items found in architectural salvage yards  where pieces of houses wind up before demolition. His projects  range from simple (transforming a metal porch support into a  corner shelf) to more complex (building a blanket chest from  salvaged doors), and safety tips on working with metal, glass,  and wood are provided. Though for each book, too few  illustrations are provided with the well-written directions,  skilled crafters will still find the projects here useful.  Recommended for public libraries where there is an interest.Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.