Decorate: 1,000 Design Ideas for Every Room in Your Home [Hardcover]

Holly Becker (Author), Joanna Copestick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 20, 2011

In Decorate, the world's top designers and leading decor experts including Kelly Wearstler, Amy Butler, Jonathan Adler, and many others come together to share over 1,000 professional tips, ideas, and solutions for every room and every budget. Written and compiled by Holly Becker, founder of the hugely popular design blog Decor8, and Joanna Copestick, acclaimed lifestyle writer, this intensive home dcor program combines beautiful inspiration with nuts-and-bolts how-to for stunning results. More than 500 gorgeous color photographs provide motivation while line illustrations, checklists, shortcuts, and floor plans make it easy to get started. For those looking to make the most of their home and create stylish interiors, Decorate is the start-to-finish resource to keep on the bookshelf for years to come.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"It's like your first pack of Starbursts - exploding with color, homes and sunshine in equal measure. " - Apartment Therapy

About the Author

Holly Becker is the founder and editor of Decor8blog.com (which has 45,000 daily readers), as well as a columnist for RealSimple.com. She lives in Hannover, Germany.

Joanna Copestick is the author of over ten lifestyle and décor books. She lives in London.

Debi Treloar has photographed for Elle Décor, the Sunday Times, and over thirty books. She lives in London.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (April 20, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811877892
• ISBN-13: 978-0811877893
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #3 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Interior Design > Decorating

More About the Author

Holly Becker is an American writer and interior design consultant who is the founder and executive editor of decor8blog.com with a daily global following of 48,000 unique readers. She is also the creator of Blogging Your Way, the first online e-course for blogging and creativity launched in April 2009 and has taught over 3,500 students about blogging, writing from the heart, tapping into creativity, building an online community, book publishing and more. "Decorate" is her debut book and is a Wall Street Journal bestseller at No. 2. Since it's launch in April 2011, Decorate has been published in the UK and Australia and translated into German and French with Danish, Polish and Czech Republic/Slovic editions being released in 2012. Decorate is currently printing for the 4th time in both the US and UK. Holly travels extensively in both the US and Europe to lecture at design fairs, give keynotes at large events and to teach decorating and blogging classes. Decorate launched in London with the official launch party and book signing held at Liberty with over 250 people in attendance. Her US book tour for Decorate was sponsored by Anthropologie and brought her to their stores to teach mood board workshops and sign copies of Decorate in Boston, Chicago, St. Paul, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York. Her book tour wrapped up in London, UK. To date, she has presented and signed Decorate in 20 cities in the UK, Europe and the US. Her most recent launch party was at the Soho House in Berlin, Germany for the German version of Decorate title, Lust auf Wohnen.

Holly currently lives with her husband in northern Germany and is working on her next book.

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181 of 187 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I. LOVED. EVERY. PAGE!, April 27, 2011

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34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 1000 Decorating Ideas to Inspire You!, April 15, 2011

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This review is from: Decorate: 1,000 Design Ideas for Every Room in Your Home (Hardcover)

It's obvious that this original and vibrant book was designed with great craft and care to be useful to the apartment dweller or home-owner who is looking for direction on where to begin in decorating their space. The following styles are highlighted: simple, natural, modern, flea-market, colorful, floral, eclectic and modern glamour style. There are helpful guidelines in how to create each of these styles in a home. In "Attention to Detail" you'll see accessorizing tips for mirrors, lighting, pillows, flowers and table settings.

The styles represented are fresh and vibrant; this book should appeal to folks who like modern, vintage, flea-market, DIY, urban, retro, cottage, rural, industrial, bohemian, global, mid-century, heirloom, Apartment Therapy, eclectic and any variation on these themes. These are real homes in which you can easily imagine folks living. It is fun to see designers Jonathan Adler & Simon Doonan's home and Vicente Wolf's loft in the mix. If you've ever wondered how one-room living and sleeping would be, Liz Bauer's NYC studio apartment in this book (and Billy Baldwin's from another book) are convincing that you can have a bed in your living room and still look stylish! Loved her space.

This book exceeded my expectations--didn't really know what to expect regarding how 1000 quality design ideas would fit in one book--and think it will be especially valuable to those who want their home to express them and their personal vision of a lively, lovable and livable space.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational!, July 26, 2011

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Green Interior Designer (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Decorate: 1,000 Design Ideas for Every Room in Your Home (Hardcover)

Decorate:1,000 Design Ideas for Every Room in Your Home, by Holly Beckerand Joanna Copestick,is filled with great tips from the top designers. That said, it is still accessible for the layman and is a very insprational--and beautiful--read.

The book is divided into sections:
Space Matters: working with the space you have to create rooms that work and flow
Seeking your style: helps you to determine what style is best for you
Room by room: gorgeous pictures of different rooms and how to maximize the look
Attention to detail: how little details make a big difference

As a designer, I always check out new books on interior design. I was very impressed with how this book is filled with great tips and ideas and is accessible to all--not intimidating as many design books can be.

I highly recommend Decorate and would like to recommend another book that I often give my clients: HARMONIOUS ENVIRONMENT: BEAUTIFY, DETOXIFY & ENERGIZE YOUR LIFE, YOUR HOME AND YOUR PLANET for more tips on how to create the home of your dreams.