Customer Reviews

Big Book of Interiors, The: Design Ideas for Every Room

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This is a great idea book of interiors done by some of the best designers in the world. It is organized by the types of room:

Halls and Staircases
Kitchens
Dining Rooms
Living Rooms
Bedrooms
Home Offices
Bathrooms

This book offers ideas in several areas that you don't normall see in such idea books. The section on staircases is fantastic. Staircases give the designer to do some really dramatic things. I didn't realize just how dramatic until I saw all the designs that are shown here. And surprisingly, many of them look like they would be less expensive than traditional designs.

Another aspect of this book that isn't often seen is the decoration they have done on smaller houses and even lofts in converted warehouses, and sometimes showing very small areas.

Don't get the feeling though that you could build rooms like these by buying your appliances and furniture at the cut-rate discount store. This is a book of high end designs. Spectacularly photographed and printed.

Not a book I'd recommend unless you're interested in pretty much the same design reworked over and over again. More than 380 pages of ultra-modern rooms which are sterile and "office building" chic at best. No diversity at all.

I don't really like having to rate a book so low, but I think it was more because it was nothing that I expected. My husband and I are basically "flipping" our house and I thought that this book would give us some great ideas and tips designing our new rooms. However, this book is just pictures! No information on where you can even find some of the products which is probably better because only movie stars and millionaires live in the houses that were displayed along the pages. If you have the money and want to gut everything, then this book is worth buying, however, if you just need some little ideas I suggest trying a different book.