Country Living Your House, Your Home: Randy Florke's Decorating Essentials

I own almost every book on country homes and decorating published over the past 5 years. This by far is the essential and best. The text is really great - hits the spot. Five Stars!

Some many of these books are cookie cutter and make the same suggestions. Randy has a great eye for furniture placement and antique display. He encourages you to mix and match and create your own unique style. There is nothing more thrilling to have decorated your home and feel confident in what you have done. This book will guide you through a process most people fear.

Having grown up in the country it was absolutely astounding to see Randy Florke capture so beautifully the joy of country living. His taste in design is perfect and his respect for blending great design into being compatible with the beauty of nature is amazing. He gives country living a respectablity and beauty that few others have been able to achieve. A perfect gift for those who cherish their memories from country living in childhood or to those who today have the joy of living in the country and wish to do so with taste and class.

This is an equisite example of how being "real" is more elegant then trying to "keep up with the jones's."The book was affordble and easy to follow. Randy is from a farm in Iowa.He understands design on a budget and simple elegance. This is a fresh viewpoint on all these staid tired makeover "wondershows" I can find elegance at a flea market and mix it with my custom couches and create my own style. How fresh, how new. People have been taking flea market finds (yes garden furniture) and mixing it with custom pieces in Europe for years. Randy Florke brings this simple elegance home to America. I love what the book stands for and will recommend it to all my clients. Randy Florke's fresh approach in a market that is saturated with alot of nothingness shows me that there still is creativity out there. I am excited to try color, as Randy does on many a wall, and, take chances with fabric and new ideas for old simple items. This book is your design,"must have." I believe in his crisp clear vision in a business that has one to many experts and not enough down home truth.

I LOVE Randy Florke and his amzing sense of home and comfort! If you're into status and pretention, you'll be disappointed. If you're into warm homes filled with love and laughter, this is for you. Randy makes ordinary things come alive, proving that decorating is more about what's in your heart than the size of your wallet.