"The Heirloom House is a humorous personal account of two interlocking obsessions: eBay and the quest to create a vacation house that looks and feels like a family heirloom. Beginning with recollections of her childhood summers in Nantucket, author Sherry Lefevre narrates the development of her personal aesthetic: wanting everything people with old inherited houses have. When she receives a bequest that allows her to purchase her own ramshackle summerhouse, she clicks on eBay and emerges two months later with a house fully ...
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"The Heirloom House is a humorous personal account of two interlocking obsessions: eBay and the quest to create a vacation house that looks and feels like a family heirloom. Beginning with recollections of her childhood summers in Nantucket, author Sherry Lefevre narrates the development of her personal aesthetic: wanting everything people with old inherited houses have. When she receives a bequest that allows her to purchase her own ramshackle summerhouse, she clicks on eBay and emerges two months later with a house fully furnished with other people's ancestral treasures, from toile curtains to taxidermy, at a more-than-affordable price. Filled with photos and drawings, The Heirloom House invites readers to follow Lefevre's eBay searches and imitate her heirloom-hunting strategies. Antique treasures are classified and eBay "search words" are suggested to assist the reader's own treasure hunting. Anecdotes, both informative and entertaining, enliven descriptions of the antique objects acquired, and while the whole endeavor is relayed with humor, the underlying message is a serious one: with enough love, anyone can have an ancestral home - an heirloom house."--provided by Amazon.com.
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Add this copy of The Heirloom House: How Ebay and I Decorated and to cart. $9.25, fair condition, Sold by Dream Books Co. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Denver, CO, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Skyhorse.
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Fair. This copy has clearly been enjoyed-expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.
Add this copy of The Heirloom House: How Ebay and I Decorated and to cart. $10.22, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Skyhorse Publishing.
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Add this copy of The Heirloom House: How Ebay and I Decorated and to cart. $11.68, good condition, Sold by BooksRun rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Philadelphia, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Skyhorse.
Add this copy of The Heirloom House to cart. $12.00, very good condition, Sold by A New Leaf Used Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pine Plains, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Skyhorse.
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Photographs. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardcover Instruction Home Design: An excellent hardcover on how to get stuff together to make a vacation house into what looks like a family heirloom. Thank you for shopping at an independent bookstore.
Add this copy of The Heirloom House: How Ebay and I Decorated and to cart. $45.06, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Skyhorse.
