The House Always Wins: Create the Home You Love-Without Busting Your Budget
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The House Always Wins: Create the Home You Love-Without Busting Your Budget
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(2 Votes)Review
Deseret News, 3/14/09 “Jameson offers budget-friendly advice on how to spruce up the house you’re already in. Jameson focuses not only on how-tos and design options but the personal interactions with contractors, spouses, children and friends. She provides strategies to get started, pointers to make things easier and tips to keep you entertained while you work.”
Tucson Citizen, 3/18/09 “Filled with advice for those who need to spruce up their homes but do not have an unlimited budget. There are simple strategies to get started, practical pointers to make every step easier, expert advice on everything from new tax laws to custom flooring, and tips to help survive almost any home remodel project."
InfoDad.com, 3/26/09 “Especially in the current economic environment, when families are far more likely to contemplate creating a comfortable home for themselves than moving to another one, a book such as The House Always Wins offers comfort to the cocooning…Jameson provides both large-scale advice and small-scale information…Jameson’s relentlessly upbeat, chatty hints will reassure you that you are not alone and that home decorating and redecorating is by no means an impossible task.”
Bookviews, 5/09“There is so much good advice in this book that its purchase will prove to be one of your best investments this year.”
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Deseret News, 3/14/09 “Jameson offers budget-friendly advice on how to spruce up the house you’re already in. Jameson focuses not only on how-tos and design options but the personal interactions with contractors, spouses, children and friends. She provides strategies to get started, pointers to make things easier and tips to keep you entertained while you work.”
Tucson Citizen, 3/18/09 “Filled with advice for those who need to spruce up their homes but do not have an unlimited budget. There are simple strategies to get started, practical pointers to make every step easier, expert advice on everything from new tax laws to custom flooring, and tips to help survive almost any home remodel project."
InfoDad.com, 3/26/09 “Especially in the current economic environment, when families are far more likely to contemplate creating a comfortable home for themselves than moving to another one, a book such as The House Always Wins offers comfort to the cocooning…Jameson provides both large-scale advice and small-scale information…Jameson’s relentlessly upbeat, chatty hints will reassure you that you are not alone and that home decorating and redecorating is by no means an impossible task.”
Bookviews, 5/09“There is so much good advice in this book that its purchase will prove to be one of your best investments this year.”
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Matthew Kruvczuk | 
16/11/2010
16/11/2010
Lots of little parts that never really come together
Are you interested in learning about interior design? Do you want some practical advice to help you make your home look better, warmer, more welcoming?
If so, keep looking, this is not the book you are looking for.
Mrs. Jameson hits a multitude of topics, none of which is covered in great depth or with great care. In the end, the book feels like what it is, a group of bullet points in text boxes with little to connect them. She interviews "experts" from each field and then gives the reader their recommendations. This could be helpful, but the experts are all in the business of selling some product or another, so their advice always seems like a company line.
Mrs. Jameson's response to most questions posed by the books seems to be "hire a designer". If I wanted to hire a designer to arrange my furniture, pick out my paint colors, or select my houseplants, the question becomes why should I read this book?
Lastly, adding three pages at the end of the book on conservation, which basically say turn off the lights more often only makes your books seem all the more trite because the rest of the book is all about excessive consumption and spending more than you need to. The book would be more sincere without the three pages.
I hope this review saves you the time I wasted on this book.
Kayleen Hunsaker | 
06/07/2010
06/07/2010
Humor at its best; while getting GREAT ideas!
the library & then bought it because it is such great reading & has mountains of good information for the future.
My daughter-in-law has been reading it for the 3rd time as she & my son build their home.
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