Junk Beautiful: Room by Room Makeovers with Junkmarket Style | 
| Authors: Sue Whitney, Ki Nassauer
Publisher: Taunton
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
Buy New: $12.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 16530
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 9.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 1561589810
Dewey Decimal Number: 747
EAN: 9781561589814
ASIN: 1561589810
Publication Date: March 25, 2008
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Condition: CLEAN AND NEVER USED--VERY SLIGHT WEAR TO EDGE OF COVER FROM STORAGE
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Product Description
One person's trash is another's treasure. That's a fact of life that the Junkmarket gals know only too well. Through their annual Minneapolis fleamarket, The Junk Bonanza, web site junkmarketstyle.com, and tireless touring, Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer have helped countless devotees transform junk into one-of-a-kind furnishings and accessories. Working their magic on every room of the house--from kitchen to home office--they present conversational case studies that introduce the clients and explore their needs. With characteristic humor in tow, they take readers through each renovation adventure, from shopping for recycled materials to the actual construction projects. The gals also include complete materials lists, plus paint chips and fabric swatches, so that everything can be recreated down to the last delicious detail.
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Some Junk In the Trunk or How To Be A Junk Rocker August 19, 2008
Sometimes I look back on my childhood and wondered how I even survived. The home I lived in was not very "kid friendly". It was like living in the Smithsonian. Crazy silk flowers, couches covered in plastic, doilies under everything -including doilies under doilies, expensive prints of famous paintings in expensive frames. Everything had to be "just so".
It sucked.
When it was time for me to move out, I knew I needed to furnish my new place but I didn't exactly have a lot of money to spend on new things. Besides, I didn't want new things. I didn't want my place to look like it came straight from the pages of Ikea. I wanted my place to be unique, inviting, and completely comfortable.
So, I began scouring the garage sales, the flea markets, the night before trash day in nice neighborhoods - you would not believe what you can find sitting out there on the curb and I took all of this stuff in and began to sand, primer, and paint. I sawed, I hammered, I drilled. I washed, I sewed, I stapled. I was like Martha Stewart on steroids. And the end result was a home that felt like a home.
This book really puts things in perspective. It shows how with a little ingenuinuity and some creative imagination you can create living spaces that are filled to overflowing with charm, love, and individuality.
My sister-in-law gets a new living room set about every two years. It's always expensive and she always has to brag about how much she paid for everything. Actually, she didn't pay for any of it, her husband did...and probably still does...but despite the heavy duty price tag, her home doesn't feel like a home. It feels cold, impersonal, unhappy. Sometimes, on the drive home my wife starts to complain about her home and how she wished she had $65,000 and she'd re-decorate the whole house. But then we come home and she sees the authentic Chinese mohagany altar table we found in a dumpster and converted into a coffee table, the wingback chair that we got for $12 at a garage sale and pinned a very nice tapestry from India on it, the rug that was originally selling for $450 but we ended up getting for $195 because the person that ordered it never showed up and one of my favorites, the six framed, multi-colored window that came from an old house and we just took the glass out and installed a mirror in the back, and she breaks out in a smile and says, "This may all be junk, but it's my junk..."
This book really shows you that we really don't need that much to be happy and the great thing about "junk" furniture that if something does happen to it, it's not a huge loss unlike the Victorian chair in my dad's study. Apparently, "some thoughtless moron" sat in that chair while eating chocolate and wiped their hands all over it, creating permanent stains.
Boo-hoo, dad.
(I'm not even sorry.)
So get this book and start being a little more creative, a little more inspired, and a lot more happy. And just like the things I've found over the years, this book is indeed a treasure.
Peace and Blessings,
john, 'the Light Coach'
Junk Beatiful Room by Room July 31, 2008
I love this book I have a hard time putting it down it is so creative and inspirational on to reuse and repurpose old items to new ones. I would encourage everyone to purchase this book if you like to be creative you wil love this book. I look forward to a 3rd book.
Fabulous Junk May 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fabulous book. It gave me all kinds of inspiration for decorating my home and for using creative displays for my retail store.
Great ideas! April 25, 2008
How do they think of these creative ways to re-use "junk"? Awesome pair of ladies!!!
 I WANTED to love it as much as the first one, but ... April 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The bulk of the book is structured in a much more mainstream way, showing some kinda suburbian translations of their look. Yes, I do understand that salvaged, re-viewed materials can have a place in ANY home ... but I miss the funkifying DIY of both the magazine and the first book. There is SOME of that here, but for my taste, nowhere near enough. I LOVED the early zany repurposing, the ways of recycling that were, ok, green (the Junk Ladies were green when green wasn't cool), sure -- but just amazingly creative. Uh, using old stock girdles for a curtain valance, with the garter tab for clipping the drapes below?! The bird-cage office organizer? The roller-skate vase? Hel-LO, Genius! I still love them and wholly endorse what they do. But I have to say, the book did disappoint me a bit. Don't BLEND, ladies! Please!
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