Whether you are designing a brand new home or simply updating one room's interior, Decorate is teeming with clever, creative and quirky advice from the world's best designers and architects. The likes of Jonathan Adler, Kelly Hoppen, Amy Neunsinger, Rita Konig, Amy Butler and Abigail Ahern reveal essential tools of the trade, from where to put your furniture to how to dress a room with your own individual style. The book is a gorgeous source of essential expert guidance, featuring both quick fixes for small budgets and indulgent ideas for more ambitious projects. The text is divided into sections, each punctuated with top tips, pearls of decorating wisdom and divine designer secrets: 'Space Matters' has a blank-canvas approach, showing you how best to assess a space and work out its specific decorating needs. A section on 'Setting Your Style' profiles a huge range of different interior aesthetics, from Natural and Fleamarket Style to Modern Glamour and Eclectic. 'Room By Room' concentrates on each room of the house and tells you what you need to know to transform any area. Finally, 'Attention to Detail' reveals the smaller elements that can utterly transform a space, without affecting the architecture or structure of a building. These final touches include hanging pictures, arranging flowers, cushions and lights. Decorate's vast selection of styles, boasting contributions from the industry's top designers, makes it an essential book for anyone looking to transform their home's interior.
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'A beautiful book of practical but quirky professional decorating tips' Independent on Sunday 'This book will teach you the essential tools of the trade, from where to place furniture, to how to dress a room with individual style.' Build It 'A breath of fresh air as it combines colourful, eclectic interiors with fantastically practical advice' Resident 'Teeming with clever and creative advice collated from global designers and architects.' Utopia Kitchen & Bathroom 'All the tips you'll need to assess your space and give it the look that reflects you perfectly' Your Home 'The hottest homes book right now' Sainsbury's Magazine 'Packed full of personality and with more than 1,000 decorating ideas and inspirational pictures. It's hard to pick a favourite section with all those gorgeous photos. Four stars ****' House & Home (Ireland) 'A fascinating source of insight and guidance from those in the know' Mollie Makes 'This is definitely the interiors book for the keen designer' Houseofpaulinteriors.blogspot.com Bursting with pearls of decorating wisdom Kitchens, Bedrooms and Bathrooms
About the Author
Holly Becker, an American freelance journalist, design consultant, and stylist, launched the decor8 blog in January 2006, and it is now an established site known as a reliable design resource with over a million page views monthly and 48,000 daily readers. In addition, Holly is a weekly columnist at Real Simple magazine online. She has also worked for a number of online magazines, including Domino and Cookie, and a television network, and she was a bi-weekly columnist for the Boston Globe in their Style & Arts section. Joanna Copestick is a writer and editor specializing in interior design and decoration. She is the author of more than ten books, including Decorate, Perfect Palettes (with Stephanie Hoppen), The Family Home, Children's Rooms, Vital Colour and Smart Storage and her work has appeared in the Evening Standard, Red and Junior magazines. She has also worked as an interior designer, creating and adapting comfortable family homes, and has appeared on television and radio.
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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.
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.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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I won't lie. I buy a LOT of books. Home Decor books are a favorite. This one has earned a spot on my coffee table (a spot I reserve for the best of the best). Buy it. Read it. Absorb the ideas. I think you'll love it. I know I did. :)
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved it
Love it, can't wait to finish from cover to cover and read again. I'm hoping to get some great decorating tips from it.
Published 14 days ago by Brooke
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not the kind of book for Kindle.
Books like this one are for holding in your lap and flipping through the pages. Difficult for the Kindle. The Kindle is more for straight reading.
Published 15 days ago by jaqee
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not fantastic
Would have been better in hard copy, not on my kindle. A lot of white on white seems to be the thing in this book. But it did a few good ideas. Read more
Published 19 days ago by gardenlady
5.0 out of 5 stars
just my style
I just moved in a new house, and am using this book for ideas in decorating. Love it! Have found ways to display treasures I had packed away.
Published 25 days ago by linda
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's Okay
Most of the reviews seemed to love it, it just didn't help me much. I guess most of the rooms just weren't my style, but it does have some good ideas in it.
Published 1 month ago by Kimberly M
3.0 out of 5 stars
Beginners Book
I thought it was more for those who don't normally decorate. I didn't find it as useful since this is what I enjoy doing.
Published 1 month ago by Cathy Olson
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not Easy To Read
Difficult book to read electronically. None of the descriptions matched up with what picture was on the page as you read.
Published 1 month ago by Emily
2.0 out of 5 stars
My first ebook on decorating.
This book is actually not bad at all, but I found that I really wanted a more hands on experience with a decorating book, so I could flip back and forth more easily, and maybe even... Read more
Published 1 month ago by kittybro
3.0 out of 5 stars
Kindle Edition: Numerous typos
I don't know if its this bad in the print edition, but the kindle edition has typo after typo. Some pages have two in one page. Most pages of text have at least one typo. Read more
Published 1 month ago by James A. Long
3.0 out of 5 stars
Decorate
Lots of good but not great ideas. There were pictures that displayed lovely arrangements but nothing I hadn't seen before.
Published 1 month ago by Ilene Singer
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