Create the Space You Deserve: An Artistic Journey to Expressing Yourself Through Your Home [Spiral-bound]

Jill Butler (Author), Lisa Bousquet (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2008

"Create the Space You Deserve" shows you the secret to making your house a home. With stunning photography, creative ideas, and charming illustrations, Jill Butler guides you in to thoughtfully and intentionally creating your ideal living space.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 149 pages
• Publisher: Skirt!; 1st edition (August 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599212900
• ISBN-13: 978-1599212906
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 8.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #836,374 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I write because I can't not write. I've always had a pen in my hand and have journaled my whole life. "Create the Space You Deserve" came out of my journals during the time I was divorcing and moving back to the US from Paris, France. I knew I needed to create a new life and to restart from zero. The what I wanted and how to eventually create it came from this writing...My tools, steps, approach and motivation are the first four chapters..followed by the tour of the cottage I eventually created. This is not about cottage design, it is however, about how we arrive at what we want for our lives, and how we choose to live at home and in the world. It is these spaces we create that supports and nests us.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jill Butler Creates Yet Another Masterful Gift, July 30, 2008

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This review is from: Create the Space You Deserve: An Artistic Journey to Expressing Yourself Through Your Home (Spiral-bound)

Jill Butler's, "Creating the Space You Deserve" is an amazing gem. Not only did she create an out-of-the-box first-rate remodel for herself, she, in addition, created a unique guide for others to design their own spaces. This book is a treasure that you will be pulled back to again and again and again.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I must be missing something., September 6, 2009

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This review is from: Create the Space You Deserve: An Artistic Journey to Expressing Yourself Through Your Home (Spiral-bound)

I bought this book because of all the glowing reviews. I really wanted my home to look like ME, and not some decorator's. What a disappointment this was!

I'll admit it's a beautiful book with lovely decorating, but I didn't see how any of it would help me. The author talked strictly about HER home and what SHE did in it, even down to naming the exact shades of paint to use. Her porch, her mudroom, her attic bedroom. I don't have a porch, a mudroom, or an attic bedroom, and if I did, I wouldn't have much money to spend on those rooms.

I was surprised to find that she used an interior decorator. Why would you write a book about someone else's work?

I bought this book to learn how to "create the space I deserve", but I got a pretty book about how to hire a decorator to make my house look like someone else's cottage. This is not even as good as a Better Homes and Gardens magazine, and the decorating isn't new or exciting there, either.

Am I the only one who doesn't have thousands of dollars to rip out walls and "create a cozy nook" for myself to nap?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Has some Good Ideas~, November 27, 2008

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This review is from: Create the Space You Deserve: An Artistic Journey to Expressing Yourself Through Your Home (Spiral-bound)

I ordered this book for decorating purposes, while it falls short for that it's full of some pretty good ideas. It's more for a journey then say, put your bookshelf over there and get this color curtains.

I did like the idea of Vignettes for outdoors and creating spaces like that. It was inspirational and I would like to try some of the ideas. Jill Butler has some inspiring uses of antiques and odd items and getting more out of small spaces as she is transforming a cottage and using ideas from her time spent in France.

If you are going through an emotional journey or life change this book helps you adapt and work accordingly with your space. If you simply want ideas for decorating, this isn't the book.

I liked the format of the book and the spiral binding.