The French-Inspired Home, with French General

Charming book brimming with inspiration - well done! The photography is wonderful! Geared to encourage shoppers to visit Meng's store (brick & morter and on-line), you'll want to incorporate all of her ideas. Lots of how-to's. Meng's creativity and ideas are not just crafty - she looks to Europe for clues to create a relaxed French life. C'est tres bonne.

If you are looking for pictures of French decorated homes this is not the book you want. This was more like a craft book on how to make things for the French home. If thats what you are looking for it is a good book, I wasn't. If you want pictures and ideas buy Charles Faudree's Country French Living.

This book can be great or bad depending on your quest.
If you are looking for a book to bring you to a dream country, this one would do the work. Each page is like a fairy tale for your eyes. It is very nice to go through the pages and it can brighen a cloudy afternoon. However, if you are looking for inspiration, I don't think this is the right book for that. The pages are a compilation of elements that you cannot exactly apply or get inpired by.

So, a very nice book for afternoon day dreaming, but definitely not the right book for applicable home decoration or French style inspiration.

I got this book for free, otherwise I wouldn't have purchased it. If you like to look at pretty pictures, it is perfect, but for me, it was: been there, done that. Clip-art is nice, and projects are lovely, if you are into frilly stuff, but let's be honest, this book is just a big piece of eye-candy. When I feel crummy, pictures of lovely rooms and gardens, interspersed with bits of ephemera are my mood enhancers.

This book is one of my very favorites,packed full of wonderful ideas and beautiful pictures.