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Product Identifiers
PublisherSkyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-101634502337
ISBN-139781634502337
eBay Product ID (ePID)209921208
Product Key Features
Book TitleHeirloom House : How Ebay and I Decorated and Furnished My Nantucket Home
Number of Pages168 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicDesign & Construction, Interior Design / General, Decorating, Remodeling & Renovation, E-Commerce / General (See Also Computers / Electronic Commerce)
Publication Year2015
IllustratorYes
GenreHouse & Home, Architecture, Business & Economics
AuthorSherry Lefevre
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight27.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width8 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Engaging . . . by turns nostalgic memoir, archival local history, practical renovation manual, traditional home furnishings primer, and how-to guide for navigating eBay. . . . Her ideas about properly decorating a seaside house are every bit as definite as [Mario] Praz's precepts for palazzi." -- The New York Review of Books "Snappy writing with appealing and accessible information." --Leslie Linsley, author of Nantucket Cottages and Gardens and Nantucket Island Living "The story of a woman who has found a way to live her dreams. This book is a testament to nostalgia and the picturesque." --Sarah A. Chrisman, author of Victorian Secrets and This Victorian Life
SynopsisInspiration for Every Home Decorator with a Passion for the Past The Heirloom House is a humorous personal account of two interlocking obsessions: eBay and the quest to create a vacation house that looks and feels like a family heirloom. Beginning with recollections of her childhood summers in Nantucket, author Sherry Lefevre narrates the development of her personal aesthetic: wanting everything people with old inherited houses have. When she receives a bequest that allows her to purchase her own ramshackle summerhouse, she clicks on eBay and emerges two months later with a house fully furnished with other people's ancestral treasures, from toile curtains to taxidermy, at a more-than-affordable price. Filled with photos and drawings, The Heirloom House invites readers to follow Lefevre's eBay searches and imitate her heirloom-hunting strategies. Antique treasures are classified and eBay "search words" are suggested to assist the reader's own treasure hunting. Anecdotes, both informative and entertaining, enliven descriptions of the antique objects acquired, and while the whole endeavor is relayed with humor, the underlying message is a serious one: with enough love, anyone can have an ancestral home--an heirloom house.
LC Classification NumberNK2004.3
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