Mary Emmerling Books

Mary Emmerling's Beach Cottages: At Home by the Sea

Mary Emmerling

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

beach house.
The words alone have the hypnotic associations Henry James once famously ascribed to summer afternoon–“the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Lifelong beach girl Mary Emmerling captures that implicit promise of freedom in her captivating volume celebrating the American beach cottage.

Much of the beach house’s allure is in its reflection of a simpler way of life, a pared-down existence where the breeze is the housekeeper, the furnishings don’t mind a damp swimsuit, and the most precious treasures are seashells and memories. In Mary Emmerling’s Beach Cottages, Mary invites us into seventeen coastal retreats that capture that spirit, and introduces us to the people who take joy from them.

Join Mary on a warm, intimate tour of unique seaside escapes, including:

•A pint-sized artist’s studio in Key West
•A dramatic black-and-white retreat in Newport Beach, California
•A shell-lined jewel box in Laguna Beach, California
•A nautically inspired Cape Cod getaway
•A haven in Galveston, Texas, with sea-grass rugs and matchstick blinds
•The homes of designers such as Barclay Butera and Rachel Ashwell
•Mary’s own charming cottage, complete with beach balls, sailfish, and beaded curtains

With gorgeously photographed profiles of easy-going seaside homes and innovative design solutions for everyday living, Mary Emmerling’s Beach Cottages is both beautiful and inspirational. Like a beloved seaside haven, this is a book to return to again and again.

Mary Emmerling's Quick Decorating: Fast and Easy Projects for Every Room of the House (American Country Series)

Mary Emmerling

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Inspiration generation 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I have a shelf full of "country" decorating books, but this is the one I pick up most often when I worry that things around here have been the same for too long. It's full of little ideas that can make it look as if you have spent longer re-vamping than you have done. Some of the suggestions are more long term and perhaps Mary shouldn't try to catagorise them as "quick" projects, but she has loads of quick ideas to perk up rooms around the house.
Buy it for the inspiration it generates - for the beautiful photography and the concept that you don't have to do much to make a difference to the look of your home.

Editorial Review:

Most Americans are pack rats, and Mary Emmerling seems to be no exception, but she knows how to make it look chic. Emmerling's specialty is a quintessential American country look: light fabrics, Western knickknacks, Navajo rugs, sunflowers, seashells, and gingham. The great thing about Emmerling's style is that it's flexible--when summer comes, you change the damask drapes to canvas tab curtains, put out some new pillows with mattress-ticking stripes, and--voilà!--you've got the beach cottage look. Every possession becomes decorating fodder: you can use nice, old chairs as end tables, house your videos and CDs in wicker baskets, or keep your spices in a test-tube rack. The division of the book into decorating periods of 5, 15, and 30 minutes (as well as "1 Hour to an Afternoon") is a bit odd and arbitrary, but the ideas are interesting and the look is great, especially for people with a lot of stuff.

Mary Emmerling's New Country Collecting

Mary Emmerling

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Not just for the coffee table! 5 out of 5 stars.
12 of 14 people found this review helpful.

Mary Emmerling has always been one of my favorite authors. She has a dramatic, signature look that stands out in all of her books, and NEW COUNTRY COLLECTING continues to portray Country decorating at its' finest. After you look at all of the wonderful photographs and read about the collectors, you will race out the door to shop for new additions to your collections. I own all of her books, and eagerly look forward to new publications for my country bookshelf.

Loved it then,...love it now 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book in the 1990s. I still browse through it today, and this book does hold up.

The chapters are easily categorized by styles. The photos are wonderful!

If you're familiar with COUNTRY HOME MAGAZINE or Mary Emmerling's style, then you'll like the format of this book.

Editorial Review:

Thirteen years after the publication of Collecting American Country, Mary Emmerling returns with this new book that focuses on today's country collecting scene. Illustrated with 350 full-color photos, this book explores the latest trends by taking readers into the homes of 21 dealers and collectors.

American Country Christmas

Mary Emmerling

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With its whimsically die-cut slipcase and dozens of nostalgic holiday verses, American Country Christmas celebrates the holiday season and shows how to put a little bit of country into any occasion. More than 150 full-color photographs.

Mary Emmerling's Smart Decorating: Inexpensive Projects for Every Room of the House

Mary Emmerling

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 2.5 of 5

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Decorating with style and creativity -- no matter what challenges real life may bring -- is a Mary Emmerling trademark. In her last book, Mary Emmerling's Quick Decorating, she proved that beautiful rooms could be put together in hours and even minutes; now she brings the same ingenuity and panache to decorating on a budget in Mary Emmerling's Smart Decorating. The secret of her system for avoiding expense is keeping the big-ticket furnishings simple, focusing instead on the movable feasts of accessories and flowers, pictures and fabrics. It is a strategy that works every time.

Hundreds of full-color photographs present ideas from which any home decorator can draw inspiration or improvise. Chapters are organized by price, from "Pennies" (using produce and fresh flowers placed in interesting "found" containers, for example) to "Dollars" (such as covering books with a uniform paper to create an instant library) to "Bigger Bucks" (a vintage tablecloth artfully hung as a contemporary window treatment).

In addition to ideas for every room of the house, Mary offers strategies for shopping smart, salvaging old pieces, incorporating objects from nature into a decorating scheme, and creating new uses for everyday objects, as well as a directory to her favorite home stores and antiques shops.

Throughout, Mary's inimitable approach makes decorating itself fresh and fun. Perfect for the beginner and seasoned decorator alike, Mary Emmerling's Smart Decorating is an invaluable resource for finding great style without great expense.

Collecting American Country

Mary Emmerling

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Read this in the 1980's 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book in the early 1980's, and back then ,this was considered a very up-to-date book. I loved it back then!

However, now that it's 2007, many of the photos in this book will seem out-dated ....to the reader.

Editorial Review:

Collecting American Country is a sequel and companion to the enormously successful American Country that sold over 160,000 copies and is still selling. It is a comprehensive guide to identifying and buying, maintaining, displaying, and decorating with American country pieces. 400 photographs, including 350 in full color.

Mary Emmerling's American Country Cooking: Recipes and Menus from Family and Friends Across America

Mary Emmerling

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Mary Emmerling, America's premier interpreter of American Country style, has created a charming, lavishly illustrated album of recipes, table settings, and entertaining ideas from her friends throughout the country. More than 300 full-color photographs.

Mary Emmerling's American Country Cottages

Mary Emmerling, Joshua Greene

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

So-so 3 out of 5 stars.
17 of 17 people found this review helpful.

This book wasn't as large and the homes featured in it weren't as fresh and interesting as I had hoped. But I love all aspects of cottage design, from home interiors to exteriors. Thanks to another review, I picked up two other cottage books that do a great job. One is Second Home from the Better Homes and Gardens editors----------I love Second Home because it takes me on tours of cottages around the country while also giving me tips I can use for decorating or even building. It's a great book for just paging through also. Big photos, lots of information but yet it quick to read. I also like The Cabin-----------It's a beautiful book to look at but it doesn't offer the wealth of information that Second Home does.

Editorial Review:

This beautifully illustrated book explores the charm of 24 country and seaside cottages from Key West to California. Mary Emmerling and photographer Joshua Greene ventured across America and found decorating ideas and housekeeping solutions that will prove delightful and useful to anyone who enjoys living informally and intimately in small spaces. Full-color photographs.

M.e. American Country Gardens

Mary Emmerling

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Mini-version, major rip-off 1 out of 5 stars.
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Ouch! $15.95 new for this? This is NOT one of Ms. Emmerling's coffee table books. This microscopic booklet doesn't even have numbered pages, perhaps to soften the blow of spending so much for it. It's barely 7 inches square, comes with a cardboard sleeve, and resembles those Hallmark gift booklets. There are some predictable quotes from Emerson, Pope and other copyright-free folks, and then the photos...well, it has the sort of photos we've come to expect in these "name brand" books produced by stylists. A photo of someone's trowel and flower pot. A close-up of a tulip, a close-up of a hibiscus, a close-up of a field of tulips, yet another shot of more tulips, a vase full of flowers....come on already!!! Nothing to inspire, nothing original, nothing you haven't seen a thousand times if you have a few garden or home magazine subscriptions. Sorry, but M.E. dropped the ball on this one. This book was put together to make a quick buck, not to entertain a reader.

Editorial Review:

Alive with the pleasures of the country garden, Mary Emmerling's newest treat for gift-givers is a wonderous bouquet of pictures and verse. 100 full-color photographs.

Mary Emmerling's American Country West

Mary Emmerling

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The paperback edition of the best-seller that celebrates Western architecture and décor. Here are homes built from logs and adobe brick with sweeping views of deserts, grasslands, and mountain peaks, and crafts people whose pottery, furniture, blankets, ropes and rugs rekindle and reinvent the styles of the American West. Full-color photographs.