In Decorate Workshop, Holly Becker shares all of the design secrets that have made her one of the most beloved bloggers and stylists today. A companion to the international bestseller Decorate, this interactive guide takes readers step by step through her unique eight-step process. She shares her personal design philosophy and explains how to carry a vision into a finished room, from the early paint swatches to the final accents. Readers will learn how to identify their style, create mood boards, outline a schedule and budget, source materials, and start decorating! Filled with expert tips, important checklists, blank space for making lists and plans, and 250 photographs of gorgeous interiors, this is an essential planner for home decorators, whatever their budget.
Holly Becker is an American bestselling author, blogger, and interiors stylist who is the founder and executive editor of decor8blog.com with a daily global following of 48,000 unique readers. Holly also founded Blogging Your Way, the first online e-course about blogging and creativity launched in April 2009 and has taught over 5,000 students about blogging, writing from the heart, tapping into creativity, building an online community, styling, photography and more. "Decorate" is her debut book and 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, French, Danish, Polish, Czech/Slovic and Brazilian Portuguese. Her forthcoming book, Decorate Workshop, will release in the UK October 31, 2012, in the US in November, Australia in December and in February 2013 in German.
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 to be published in Fall 2013.
