Flea Market Fabulous


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From the New York Times–bestselling author of I Brake for Yard Sales: An inspiring step-by-step guide to reinventing your space with secondhand finds. Focusing on nine different rooms (including her own recently purchased Manhattan apartment), Lara Spencer, host of HGTV’s Flea Market Flip, shows that all it takes is planning, shopping know-how, and a little imagination to create a beautiful and comfortable home that reflects your personal style. She walks through the step-by-step process of overcoming the challenges of the room, offering helpful tips and lessons along the way. She identifies the design dilemma; comes up with a decorating plan; makes a mood board for inspiration; compiles a shopping list; scours flea markets for furniture and accessories that fit the bill; restores, repurposes, and reinvents the pieces she finds, giving them new life; and brings all the elements together in the gorgeous, finished space. With illuminating before, during, and after photographs of her DIY projects and the room installations, Lara demystifies the decorating process and allows you to envision endless possibilities for what you can do in your own home. “Lara Spencer has a secret superpower: making homes look like a million bucks using only bargain finds and easy D.I.Y. projects.” —Redbook




Flea Market Makeovers


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The eclectic look is home decor's hottest trend, but flea market shopping has become a national obsession, making it difficult to find real bargains. BJ Berti reveals how easy it is to get the look for less by giving new life to inexpensive castoffs and finding unusual ways to make the most out of ordinary pieces. A flea market veteran, BJ is a pro at reimagining the wobbly end table as a vehicle for vibrant color and seeing beyond a coating of ugly paint or covering of faded fabric. In Flea Market Makeovers, she reveals secrets for spotting diamonds in the rough at local flea markets, neighborhood garage sales, and vintage furniture stores and shows how to gauge the potential of the curbside castoff. Through twenty-five projects and a special section of basic techniques, BJ explains how a little loving care and a touch of elbow grease can transform the most forlorn-looking pieces into charming additions for all rooms of the home. Step-by-step instructions make it easy to follow her philosophy of restore, revive, and reuse. Why overlook a piece just because it has loose joints or a shaky leg? Minor fixes are easy to accomplish with a little craft know-how, and sometimes just a rigorous cleaning is all that's needed to unveil a prize find. BJ carefully describes how to strip away layers of paint, smooth nicks and dents, and replace old stuffing and fabric. She also illustrates how simple it is to revive a piece by adding a painted pattern, some beveled mirror pieces, or a carved wooden molding. For example, a simple folding card table looks entirely different after BJ replaces its dull floral tabletop with new painted canvas. Finally, BJ demonstrates how to successfully reuse pieces with unexpected placement. For example, a bookcase with fresh detailing stands out as smart storage for a dining room, and a panel from an old upright piano makes waves as a headboard over a bed. With projects that range from a new lamp to brighten a corner of a living room to a mirrored panel for sectioning off a study,Flea Market Makeoversbalances the best of crafting with extremely chic results for every room of the home. Flea Market Makeovers makes it easy to spot the hidden gems with the acumen of a pro.




I Brake for Yard Sales


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The New York Times bestseller by the host of HGTV’s Flea Market Flip, packed with expert tips for bargain-hunting home decorators. Former Good Morning America and Antiques Roadshow host Lara Spencer is a self-confessed frugalista with a passion for shopping at yard sales, thrift shops, and estate sales, and for decorating her home—and friends’ homes—with her fabulous finds. In I Brake for Yard Sales, Lara shares her secrets for bargain hunting and tells you where to shop, what to look for, how to pay for it, how to restore it, and finally, where to put it in your house. Peppered with wisdom from world-renowned appraisers as well as contributions from well-known designers, this book also features the house of comedienne and good friend Kathy Griffin, which Spencer herself refurbished and decorated.




Flea Market Style


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Full of creative and affordable ideas, Flea Market Style gives you all the information and inspiration that you need to create a beautiful and original home. Full of creative and affordable ideas, Flea Market Style gives you all the information and inspiration that you need to create a beautiful and original home. One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, as the saying goes. In Flea Market Style, stylist Emily Chalmers and interiors writer Ali Hanan will inspire you to discover a world of preloved and vintage treasures and use them to create a unique home. The duo reveal how to track down hidden gems and combine individual pieces to forge your own distinctive style. The first section of the book, Flea Market Finds, covers the range of second-hand, salvaged and vintage objects on offer. Whether your style is retro, minimalist, or eclectic, you can seek out unique pieces of furniture, lighting, glassware, kitchenware, and fabrics that appeal to you. Once you have acquired a feel for what’s out there, the second part of the book, Putting It All Together, demonstrates how to transform any interior room by room. It covers spaces to cook, eat, sleep, and relax, as well as bathrooms and home offices. The book ends with hints and tips on how to source the right piece for the right place. Flea Market Style combines lively and accessible text with inspirational photographs by Debi Treloar, revealing how to become a true aficionado of second-hand style.




Flea Market Flair


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Creating a beautiful home vinatge finds! Every page in this indespensible guide brims with ideas and inspiration that appeals to die-hard fans and new “junkers” alike – covering every possible style along the way. What started 30 years ago as a trend for shabby chic home décor has proved year over year that it’s not a trend at all but an unwavering phenomenon and a celebrated way of life. Thrifting your way to decorating your home is fun, affordable, and hotter than ever. Recently fueled by popular HGTV shows such as “Fixer Upper” and “Flea Market Flip,” the “flea market look” has broadened its appeal and spawned new sub genres, from Farmhouse Chic and Vintage Boho to Rustic Cabin, Coastal Cottage, French Country, and colorful Roadside Americana Kitsch. From DIY projects to tackle on a spring weekend and ways to work those previously loved finds into your home to kitchen, home office, and garden party ideas plus tours through seven statement-making homes, the beautiful imagery alone is enough to draw in anyone who can’t resist new ideas to feather her nest. Mixed in are tips for flea marketing bargain shopping, cleaning and caring for vintage collectibles, and interviews with emerging entrepreneurs who have upcycled their way into a new business thanks to this timeless style of shopping, collecting, decorating, and connecting with others who share a passion for flea market living.




Good Things from Tag Sales and Flea Markets


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Inspired by Martha Stewart's own passion for bargain hunting, this guide offers valuable advice for entering the world of bargaining and flea markets. Full-color photos throughout.




Freakin' Fabulous


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The co-host of "What Not to Wear" shares his expertise on everything from the importance of tailoring and making the perfect omelet to party planning, table manners, and thank-you notes, with advice on how to become fabulous in every aspect of one's life.




From Flea Market to Fabulous


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Shows do-it-yourselfers how to select second-hand furniture pieces, fix them up, and turn them into beautiful decorative works in 12 step-by-step projects.




Fabulous Ideas for Flea Market Finds


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This full-color handbook contains a wonderful array of home decorating ideas. Using simple crafting techniques and products, readers are shown how to transform inexpensive "treasures" into priceless accents for the home. Features over 100 full-color photos of over 100 designs, complete instructions for the given projects, and more.




Felt It! Stitch It! Fabulous!


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Craft trendy flower pins, a matching scarf and mitten set, a snuggly little bear hat, a fully functional and attractive backpack and much more.