Guest Rooms
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A good host knows that every guest is an honored guest, whether hard-pressed and lost or upbeat and well. But how to be a good host--or for that matter, a good guest--can be a perplexing and often stressful question. Guest Rooms, by Hilary and Alexander Heminway, offers tips, suggestions, and sound advice for creating guest sanctuaries, while helping hosts to maintain their sanity. It includes decorating ideas, and sidebars on linens, amenities, meals, tips on being a good guest, instructions for preparing a guest bath, and more.
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Guest Rooms by Hilary Heminway and Alex Heminway Photography by Audrey Hall How to be a good host-or, for that matter, a good guest-can be a daunting and stressful question. Yet it needn't be so hard. For the harried host and sometime guest, essential advice to ensure harmony in the home has arrived. With a little preparation, forethought, and a few no-fail strategies, your hosting experience will be pleasurable for you and for your guests who will feel right at home. Guest Rooms, by designer Hilary Heminway and writer Alex Heminway, offers tips, suggestions, and sound advice for how to create appealing guest sanctuaries, while retaining your sanity throughout the process. This guide includes an abundance of suggestions, including how to make guests' arrivals and departures smooth and stressless; how to create a welcoming guest bedroom; how to ready the bathroom; what necessary amenities to stock for your guests; how to cook culinary selections that are palatable for the picky eaters; how to respond to unruly children who have tagged along; how to accommodate the unexpected guest; and last, but not least, how to be a good guest. Guest Rooms is the perfect guide to creating comfortable, welcoming spaces. With simple and easy-to-use hints, tips, and information, Guest Rooms helps even the most apprehensive hosts develop the know-how and patience to enjoy their company while they're guests. back flap Hilary Heminway began her design career by decorating cast-off shoeboxes as a schoolgirl in New York City. Her rearrangement of nativity scenes and barnyard panoramas marked the beginning of an abiding interest in purposeful design and thoughtful management of space. Today in boots, tomorrow in heels, Hilary divides her time between Montana and Connecticut. Alex Heminway, a frequent guest of others, is no stranger to couches, having lived much of the last ten years out of a duffel bag. Alex recently received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. He lives in New York City and Los Angeles.
Guest Rooms
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