American Beauty: Renovating and Decorating a Beloved Retreat

American Beauty: Renovating and Decorating a Beloved RetreatFor the wide audience who adores television, print, and product designing media darling and star decorator Thom Filicia's new American style, and for anyone who has ever dreamed of creating her own retreat, this is both a deeply felt story of true house love and a decorating book brimming with beauty. Thom Filicia wasn't looking for another escape from his busy city life. But when visiting New Yorks Finger Lakes, a place he loved as a child, he fell

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Tour eleven diverse homes in the deep South—makeovers

and varying textures and scale inspired by designer Charlotte Hedeman Gueniau and her home furnishings company Rice

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and Daniela Soto-Innes (Mexico)

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