The "Salvage Sisters"
A Guide to Finding Style in the Street and the Attic

Join these intrepid hunters and gatherers in this step-by-step illustated guide as they travel the countryside rescuing common cast-offs. Learn to transform these objects into style statements loades with ingenuity, wit and humour. They also give helpful hints for alternate project ideas, contains over 125 detailed photographs.

Join intrepid hunters and gatherers Kathleen Hackett and Mary Ann Young in this step-by-step illustrated guide as they travel the country-down alleyways and side streets, to flea markets and yard sales, through the local garden store and their own closets- and learn how to transform a battered curb side couch into a fabulous and functional piece of furniture; raise discarded Sunday comics into an art form; customize a cookie-cutter set of drawers into an instant heirloom. The Salvage Sisters show how to cleverly incorporate the tired but treasured family china, torn lamp-shades, and everything else tucked away in the attic into our modern life. The simplest utilitarian objects-a plant stand, some nautical rope, an old pair of jeans- are all ingeniously reinvented in these real-life sisters' hands. Dozens of resourceful projects - ranging from a two-second slipcover or ten-minute chandelier or frumpy mirror facelift to a dapper dog sweater and soigne table skirt - plus helpful tips, alternative project ideas, and more than 125 detailed colour photographs, make this a book for anyone yearning to inject beauty and whimsy into his or her life, Salvage Sister style.