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The Romantic Home: Celebrating past and present design
Who doesn’t long for a little more romance in their home? The kind that makes your heart feel at ease when you walk inside and close the door on our fast-paced world.
Today’s romantic interiors come in many different forms, but all share a passion for beauty. Romantic rooms are filled with treasures that honour the past and defined by graceful furnishings, subtle hues, and evocative items. It’s a style that easily mixes with other design eras from traditional rustic and French country to modern luxe. In The Romantic Home , Fifi O'Neill presents twelve well-loved homes to set the heart a-flutter. In the first chapter, “Reclaimed Romance”, she visits an artist’s cottage and a restored 1902 loft in Minnesota. “Modern Crush” features a designer’s apartment in Los Angeles and a sensitively updated Rhode Island home. In “Love Stories”, Fifi reveals a writer’s hideaway in Florida and a classically elegant abode on the West Coast. And in the final chapter, “Classic Vibes,” she travels from a vintage-inspired ranch-style home in California to an authentic farmhouse in the South of France. Past meets present in each of these idyllic homes, which combine calm and collected interiors with abundant personal charm.
Today’s romantic interiors come in many different forms, but all share a passion for beauty. Romantic rooms are filled with treasures that honour the past and defined by graceful furnishings, subtle hues, and evocative items. It’s a style that easily mixes with other design eras from traditional rustic and French country to modern luxe. In The Romantic Home , Fifi O'Neill presents twelve well-loved homes to set the heart a-flutter. In the first chapter, “Reclaimed Romance”, she visits an artist’s cottage and a restored 1902 loft in Minnesota. “Modern Crush” features a designer’s apartment in Los Angeles and a sensitively updated Rhode Island home. In “Love Stories”, Fifi reveals a writer’s hideaway in Florida and a classically elegant abode on the West Coast. And in the final chapter, “Classic Vibes,” she travels from a vintage-inspired ranch-style home in California to an authentic farmhouse in the South of France. Past meets present in each of these idyllic homes, which combine calm and collected interiors with abundant personal charm.
160 pages, Hardcover
Published March 12, 2024
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October 9, 2024
Meh. I've seen worse decorating books, but this is a case where a lot of potentially cool stuff is put together in way that makes you wonder just why, why, why did you put that together the way that you did. There is a difference between a whimsical way of combining things that normally don't go together, and a godawful way of doing the same. It's all a matter of personal taste, of course, but I do think mine is better.
May 5, 2024
My style but not crazy!
September 17, 2024
Absolutely beautiful!
I love the mix of colours, textures, old and new items.
Highly recommended
I love the mix of colours, textures, old and new items.
Highly recommended
April 25, 2025
My kind of decorating book!!! All the rustic, chippy, reclaimed, found items that I love.
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