Flea Market Style

Full of creative and affordable ideas, Flea Market Style gives you all the information and inspiration that you need to create a beautiful and original home.

Full of creative and affordable ideas, Flea Market Style gives you all the information and inspiration that you need to create a beautiful and original home.

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, as the saying goes. In Flea Market Style, stylist Emily Chalmers and interiors writer Ali Hanan will inspire you to discover a world of preloved and vintage treasures and use them to create a unique home. The duo reveal how to track down hidden gems and combine individual pieces to forge your own distinctive style. The first section of the book, Flea Market Finds, covers the range of second-hand, salvaged and vintage objects on offer. Whether your style is retro, minimalist, or eclectic, you can seek out unique pieces of furniture, lighting, glassware, kitchenware, and fabrics that appeal to you. Once you have acquired a feel for what’s out there, the second part of the book, Putting It All Together, demonstrates how to transform any interior room by room. It covers spaces to cook, eat, sleep, and relax, as well as bathrooms and home offices. The book ends with hints and tips on how to source the right piece for the right place. Flea Market Style combines lively and accessible text with inspirational photographs by Debi Treloar, revealing how to become a true aficionado of second-hand style.

Emily Chalmers is an interiors stylist, art director, and author who excels at using more dash than cash to create inspirational interiors. Her freelance career spans a number of magazine titles and newspaper supplements while she happily combines work with play in her carefully curated home decoration shop, Caravan Style. Emily's attention to detail and decorative finishing touches can also be seen in her books where previous titles include Table Inspirations, Cheap Chic, and Modern Vintage Style.

Ali Hanan is a connoisseur of flea market style and her favourite hunting ground is the Saturday market at London’s Portobello Road. She has written for many interiors publications including Elle Decoration and Livingetc. For Ryland Peters & Small, she has co-authored Cheap Chic and Modern Vintage Style.