Here are some gorgeous images and great tips from inside the book:
Thrifty Tip: A collection of quirky glass vases on a marble mantelpiece. It's far cheaper to pick up odd candlesticks rather than pair: if you adhere to a theme–such as glass, wood, bronze, silver or china–they will look good together.
Thrifty tip: This fashionable interior was put together by combining items from store sales, pillows from leftover scraps of fabric and a mixture of modern art and children's paintings on the walls. Frame the children's work with as much care as you would the artist's pieces.
Thrifty Chic tip: The most economical way to decorate any room, to update thrift-store finds, or make chain-store purchase look more expensive is to use paint.
Thrifty tip: The surface of this painted table is battered and scratched after many years of constant use, but it is still beautiful. When you buy a piece of old furniture such as this live with it for a while before deciding whether it needs painting or renovating–the patina of age has its own special charm.
Read an interview with the authors of Thrifty Chic
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