The Young Decorator Allen 1975 Ready to decorate your groovy pad? Solid! Here is a book for all your groovy decorating needs. Most of this decor could be characterized as “Brady Bunch” meets the “Jetsons” meets country chic. This is a textbook
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Teens: Design your own room!
Designing Your Own Room
Alexander
1977
I can appreciate having a teen book focusing on decorating and design. Art, craft and design books are usually a hit at most public libraries. This one is NOT that book. I am not even sure it was that book in 1977. As a teenager in the 1970s, I did have a passing interest in a canopy bed, but having 3 sisters puts a damper on a family budget and bedroom space. So, no to canopy beds.
Decorating books are really quite interesting and give everyone a peek into what was considered “fashionable” back in the day. As a teen in the 1970s, I am here to tell you no one I knew had rooms like this.
Scary Children’s Decor
Children’s Rooms : how to decorate them to grow with your child Levine 1975 Submitter: I have attached copious images to truly understand how scary the designs of these rooms are. Creepy dolls galore. Holly: Wow, those are some extremely
Decorating with Barbara Taylor Bradford
Easy Steps to Successful Decorating
Bradford
1971
Yes this is THE Barbara Taylor Bradford. Before she hit it big with A Woman of Substance and the subsequent Emma Harte books, she was a home decorating/style expert. So do we weed or keep? After all, it is Barbara Taylor Bradford.
Before you give your answer, take a look at some of these decorating ideas and tell me that we need to hang on to this in a modern public library. An archive should keep this for posterity, for the rest of us it is a weeder. On a personal note, the cage style bedroom evokes a certain charm.
(Good?) Housekeeping
The Good Housekeeping Complete Guide to Traditional American Decorating Good Housekeeping 1979 Submitter: This book came in on a hold. Published in 1979, our records show that it’s been out 14 times since 2002 and it’s one of two copies in