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This eco-elegant guide to home décor is packed with attractive decorating ideas inspired by the colors, forms, and themes of nature. Focused on the environmental impact of design choices, it offers home design with a point of view and a conscience. Author Janet Sobesky shows how to bring a breath of freshness into home decorating by incorporating natural elements into everyday living. Using organic and eco-conscious materials for earth-friendly designs, Janet presents a host of practical suggestions for achieving a comfortable, informal, easy-care, and sustainable lifestyle. With advice for every room in the house, Natural Style includes the latest information on organic fabrics, natural flooring materials, low VOC paints, energy-efficient lighting options, and more.

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Janet Sobesky, who was the home design and lifestyle editor at Woman's Day for two decades, incorporates eco-conscious living-her book's householding tips address outgassing from new carpeting and pesticides in cotton sheets, for instance-and shows how bringing in fresh flowers can elevate not only rooms but moods. * Publishers Weekly * Natural Style shows how to bring a breath of freshness into home decorating by incorporating natural elements into everyday living. * Midwest Book Review * This earth-friendly guide includes the latest information on organic fabrics, natural flooring materials, low VOC paints, energy-efficient lighting options, and more for every room in your home. Focused on the environmental impact of design choices, Natural Style offers home design ideas with a conscience by showing how to use organic and eco-conscious materials to suit your sustainable lifestyle. * BuckHaven Lifestyle Magazine * Natural Style is thought provoking, inspirational, and a simply beautiful source for practical ideas to live more efficiently and with greater esthetic enhancement. * Wisconsin Bookwatch * This book is important for its focus on the environmental impact of design choices, with Sobesky pragmatically discussing options to consider and the consequences of the material choices. * Library Journal *

This earth-friendly guide includes the latest information on organic fabrics, natural flooring materials, low VOC paints, energy-efficient lighting options, and more for every room in your home. Focused on the environmental impact of design choices, Natural Style offers home design ideas with a conscience by showing how to use organic and eco-conscious materials to suit your sustainable lifestyle. --BuckHaven Lifestyle Magazine Natural Style is thought provoking, inspirational, and a simply beautiful source for practical ideas to live more efficiently and with greater esthetic enhancement. --Wisconsin Bookwatch This book is important for its focus on the environmental impact of design choices, with Sobesky pragmatically discussing options to consider and the consequences of the material choices. --Library Journal

Janet Sobesky, who was the home design and lifestyle editor at Woman's Day for two decades, incorporates eco-conscious living--her book's householding tips address outgassing from new carpeting and pesticides in cotton sheets, for instance--and shows how bringing in fresh flowers can elevate not only rooms but moods. --Publishers Weekly Natural Style shows how to bring a breath of freshness into home decorating by incorporating natural elements into everyday living. --Midwest Book Review This earth-friendly guide includes the latest information on organic fabrics, natural flooring materials, low VOC paints, energy-efficient lighting options, and more for every room in your home. Focused on the environmental impact of design choices, Natural Style offers home design ideas with a conscience by showing how to use organic and eco-conscious materials to suit your sustainable lifestyle. --BuckHaven Lifestyle Magazine Natural Style is thought provoking, inspirational, and a simply beautiful source for practical ideas to live more efficiently and with greater esthetic enhancement. --Wisconsin Bookwatch This book is important for its focus on the environmental impact of design choices, with Sobesky pragmatically discussing options to consider and the consequences of the material choices. --Library Journal

Natural Style is thought provoking, inspirational, and a simply beautiful source for practical ideas to live more efficiently and with greater esthetic enhancement. --Wisconsin Bookwatch This book is important for its focus on the environmental impact of design choices, with Sobesky pragmatically discussing options to consider and the consequences of the material choices. --Library Journal

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"Janet Sobesky was the Home Design and Lifestyle Editor at Woman's Day magazine for 22 years, where she wrote the popular ""Tip Talk"" feature. Janet has appeared on radio and television shows such as Good Morning America and the Discovery Channel's Home Matters as an expert on household maintenance, organization, and decorating. She is also the author of Household Hints For Dummies."

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