After seeing all those fabulous porches earlier this morning in our tour of a wonderful lake home and guest cottage on The Ford Plantation, I knew just the book to share with you this evening. I figure with a blog titled Between Naps on the Porch, it’s my solemn duty to sample and road test all the available porch books to be found! 🙂
In the BNOTP Library: Perfect Porches: Designing Welcoming Spaces for Outdoor Living
Author: Paula S. Wallace
Hardcover: 224 pages
Book Size: 10.2 x 7.5 x 0.8
In case you’re wondering if you could be having a case of deja vu, thinking the title of this book sounds really familiar, you’re right! A few weeks ago I shared another delightful porch book with a similar title, Porch Perfect. Today we’re checking out Perfect Porches: Designing Welcoming Spaces for Outdoor Living
3 Things I Like About This Book:
- Shares info and lots of photos of many different styles/kinds of porches including coastal, farm, urban, waterfront and country from 40 different homes. All are wonderful, couldn’t pick a fave if I tried although the sleeping porches were pretty high on my list.
- The stories throughout the book add so much to the enjoyment of seeing the porches.
- The porches don’t feel like they were done by a designer or decorator. They feel like real porches used by real people. It’s pretty much impossible to put this book down without gleaning several ideas you can use for your own outdoor rooms and porches.
You can read more about this book, Perfect Porches: Designing Welcoming Spaces for Outdoor Living
You’ll find previously featured books from the BNTOP library here: In The BNOTP Library or just click on the collage below.
Hi Susan, I just checked with my library online and they have this book, so I ordered it. Am first in line, so should be coming soon. Then, I shall drool over all the porches!!! 🙂
Meg
Awesome…glad they had it! 🙂
I would love to know what YOUR favorite porches are!
It’s obvious that “they” who proclaim to not judge a book by its cover never saw your library! So far, the reviewed books are worth having even if only for the covers. How do you ever walk away from your collection and get any projects done?:)
It’s not easy…especially after I pull one off the shelf to look through it again as I’m creating the post. All I want to do is read and not work! 🙂
Love the close up of the teapot and boxwood wreath! Is the teapot a Mackenzie-Childs? I want one! The boxwood wreath is to-die-for, too!
Thanks Belinda! You’ll never believe this…I found that adorable little teapot in a flea market/antique store. You can see the post about it here: https://betweennapsontheporch.net/lets-go-antiquing/
The little wreaths came from a place I found online here: http://www.bella-marie.com/preserved-boxwood-round-wreath-8-inch.aspx . I ordered a bunch of the 8 inch wreaths and used them at Christmastime to decorate my kitchen cabinets in this post: https://betweennapsontheporch.net/decorating-with-preserved-boxwood-wreaths/
I hated to put them all away after Christmas so I kept a couple out and hung them from my bookshelves. I need to do a little update post on the office sometime soon and I’ll show how those are hanging when I do…just tucked them underneath a book. BTW, if you decide you want any of those wreaths for Christmas, order them early. The first year I tried to order some several weeks before Christmas and they were sold out in every store online. The next year I ordered them like two months in advance…learned my lesson. 🙂