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Crafting a Meaningful Home

Twenty-seven projects to personalize your living space: “This heartwarming craft book reminds me why I love decorating my own home so much.” —Lena Corwin, author of Printing by Hand

Home is our refuge and a part of our identity. These DIY projects let us craft a space that celebrates who we are and where we’ve been. In Crafting a Meaningful Home, Meg Mateo Ilasco shares twenty-seven projects that tell personal stories and celebrate heritage, all easily created on a budget. Learn how to decoupage a plate with photos of a best friend; silkscreen upholstery with folk motifs; artfully display love notes; sew a teepee from a vintage quilt top; create family silhouettes for a festive banner; and much more.

Contributed by a cast of well-known designers from across the country, the projects are, at once, nostalgic, sentimental, and modern. Clear instructions are easy to follow, even for beginning crafters.

Meg Mateo Ilasco, Thayer Allyson Gowdy

Meg Mateo Ilasco is a designer, writer, and illustrator. She is the owner of Mateo Ilasco, a design studio in the San Francisco Bay Area that creates paper and home goods. She is the author of Craft, Inc., Craft, Inc. Business Planner, Creative, Inc., and Space Planner: A Home-Decorating and Design Workbook. She writes a monthly business column for the Design*Sponge blog. Visit her website at mateoilasco.com.

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