Junk Beautiful Outdoor Edition
Sue Whitney and Kimberly Melamed
Calling ALL Junkers! Sue Whitney is back with a brand-new collection of gorgeous and green decorating projects! Through her popular website, www.junkmarketstyle.com, and numerous TV appearances, the Junkmarket gals have taught legions of devotees how to beautify their homes with tossed-away treasures.
In their latest junk journey, Junk Beautiful Outdoor Edition, Sue Whitney and friends tastefully transform patios, porches, pools, outdoor kitchens, meditation gardens, camping retreats, and much more. Each fun-filled chapter details a wealth of style options, project how-tos, and entertaining tips and trade secrets.
My Thoughts
Junk Beautiful Outdoor Edition is about recycling items and that are often easily discarded.
For many years now it has been clear that when it comes to recycling we discard more than we need too. I remember as a child watching my grandma roll fabric into a ball telling me it would be used later to make rugs.
It seems my generation sometimes forgets those things Grandma taught us because they see Grandma as old fashion instead of intelligent. Grandma wasn't focused on shopping malls and social media but that didn't mean she wasn't well liked. As I think back, Grandma had more parties at her home, than I do at mine.
I'm all about vintage. I have a growing collection of vintage books, 1930's radios sitting in the living room, an Amish pie safe in the dining room, a radio flyer wagon stored in the garage. But over the years, we have, discarded many things I wish we'd have recycled.
Suffice to say I found quite a few ideas intriguing and doable for us.
Motel chairs painted in rich colors have always attracted my attention and placing a potting table on a grassless yard was appealing as was using glass chicken watering cans to hold garden goodies like flower bulbs.
I love to pot flowers and bulbs! I truly loved the 'Meditation Garden'! And while I've already made a shutter shelf and used blankets to create pillowcases, I wish I'd had a vintage showerhead so I could have attached some bamboo for windchimes overhead.
This book is filled with amazing photographs! This book is all about options for repurposing items that we often throw out thinking they are JUNK.
Sue Whitney is the founder of JUNKMARKET as well as The American Junk Club, an online community for junkers only. She is the co-author of Decorating JUNKMARKET Style and Junk Beautiful: Room by Room Makeovers with JUNKMARKET Style. Whitney lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kimberly Melamed earned a degree in journalism and communications from Arizona State University and studied interior design at The Art Institutes International. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hockey-moms-turned-business-partners Ki Nassauer and Sue Whitney scour salvage yards, city clean-ups, and even abandoned grocery stores and bowling alleys looking for trash to rejuvenate into striking home decor. The rubbish renovators operate JUNKMARKET, their workshop, and warehouse where they also conduct occasional but wildly popular sales of vintage furniture and their own one-of-a-kind junk creations of furniture and whimsical accessories. In 2004, the JUNKMARKET girls debuted a new gift line in Target Stores. Popularity has spurred a column for "Country Home" magazine, and Nassauer and Whitney also appear on national and regional television shows. In addition, they offer junking seminars for avid followers (their mailing list has grown to 18,000) who are inspired by eclectic tastes from the junking underworld.
This book was gifted to me by family.
Sue Whitney and Kimberly Melamed
- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Taunton Press (March 31, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 160085057X
- ISBN-13: 978-1600850578
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 0.4 x 10.9 inches
Calling ALL Junkers! Sue Whitney is back with a brand-new collection of gorgeous and green decorating projects! Through her popular website, www.junkmarketstyle.com, and numerous TV appearances, the Junkmarket gals have taught legions of devotees how to beautify their homes with tossed-away treasures.
In their latest junk journey, Junk Beautiful Outdoor Edition, Sue Whitney and friends tastefully transform patios, porches, pools, outdoor kitchens, meditation gardens, camping retreats, and much more. Each fun-filled chapter details a wealth of style options, project how-tos, and entertaining tips and trade secrets.
My Thoughts
Junk Beautiful Outdoor Edition is about recycling items and that are often easily discarded.
For many years now it has been clear that when it comes to recycling we discard more than we need too. I remember as a child watching my grandma roll fabric into a ball telling me it would be used later to make rugs.
It seems my generation sometimes forgets those things Grandma taught us because they see Grandma as old fashion instead of intelligent. Grandma wasn't focused on shopping malls and social media but that didn't mean she wasn't well liked. As I think back, Grandma had more parties at her home, than I do at mine.
I'm all about vintage. I have a growing collection of vintage books, 1930's radios sitting in the living room, an Amish pie safe in the dining room, a radio flyer wagon stored in the garage. But over the years, we have, discarded many things I wish we'd have recycled.
Suffice to say I found quite a few ideas intriguing and doable for us.
Motel chairs painted in rich colors have always attracted my attention and placing a potting table on a grassless yard was appealing as was using glass chicken watering cans to hold garden goodies like flower bulbs.
I love to pot flowers and bulbs! I truly loved the 'Meditation Garden'! And while I've already made a shutter shelf and used blankets to create pillowcases, I wish I'd had a vintage showerhead so I could have attached some bamboo for windchimes overhead.
This book is filled with amazing photographs! This book is all about options for repurposing items that we often throw out thinking they are JUNK.
Sue Whitney is the founder of JUNKMARKET as well as The American Junk Club, an online community for junkers only. She is the co-author of Decorating JUNKMARKET Style and Junk Beautiful: Room by Room Makeovers with JUNKMARKET Style. Whitney lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kimberly Melamed earned a degree in journalism and communications from Arizona State University and studied interior design at The Art Institutes International. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hockey-moms-turned-business-partners Ki Nassauer and Sue Whitney scour salvage yards, city clean-ups, and even abandoned grocery stores and bowling alleys looking for trash to rejuvenate into striking home decor. The rubbish renovators operate JUNKMARKET, their workshop, and warehouse where they also conduct occasional but wildly popular sales of vintage furniture and their own one-of-a-kind junk creations of furniture and whimsical accessories. In 2004, the JUNKMARKET girls debuted a new gift line in Target Stores. Popularity has spurred a column for "Country Home" magazine, and Nassauer and Whitney also appear on national and regional television shows. In addition, they offer junking seminars for avid followers (their mailing list has grown to 18,000) who are inspired by eclectic tastes from the junking underworld.
This book was gifted to me by family.