Customer Reviews

The Family Home

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I love this book! I moved into a new home around the same time I had my first child and although my first priority was keeping my house organized and child-friendly, maintaining a semblance of style was a near second. This book gave me some great ideas, most of which were financially accessible (think Ikea), and helped me create a family room that transitions easily between a completely kid-friendly play space during the day and a comfortable and attractive place for adults to hang out a night. Plus, the book is loaded with beautiful pictures and makes for fun browsing, even if you are not a redecorating mode.

I love this book! It has wonderful pictures of beautiful spaces. I love how this book really speaks to how to incorporate children into your decorating so they feel comfortable and have fun but without making your house feel or look like a nursery school. The author has lots of fun but is very practical with her ideas. Very useful.

This is a fantastic book.It not only offers great, creative, and versitile decorating tips, but gives family activities and children's projects ideas to create a well rounded home. The photos are even gorgeous. THey have decorating for every kind of lifestyle - city, tropical,country, it's entertaining to read!
Really, I"m 14, and i love it! I can't actually use it yet, but looking through it is so great.

I love this book! Not an "odd combination" as another reviewer suggests, but one that shows that a family home can be sophisticated,cool, fun, comfortable, and ever-adapting to a family's many needs--maybe it is more for those of European tastes than, should I say, non-Europeans? I am now a Joanna Copestick fan and look forward to getting more of her books.

For the photography, for the writing, for the permission to infuse my home with "me" and my family. Really, the home is truly best when a reflection of the people in it.

My copy, purchased a couple years ago before a major move, was first, my dream book; many Post-Its and dog-eared pages. More recently, it has actually affected my choices in how I see my home: as a reflection of Us.

This book somehow gave me permission to break the rules by which I thought I "had" to decorate. If we all followed The Rules, we'd all have the same homes but with different people!

I love this book for the images, for the peeks into other real homes - even if they are staged for publication. It's one of the very least pretentious decorating books and it is, really, about your family home.

This book is one I've always loved and I took it out from our local library time and again. I was pleased to find it on Amazon at a very reasonable price and bought it immediately. It took less than 4 weeks to get to Australia and I am pleased to own a copy.Thank you!

What a very odd combination of entries for a book: tips for raising children, running a home, decorating...it's like a how-to manual for English yuppies. There are beautiful photographs and ideas of things--chair pads, curtains--and how to duplicate them, all in styles and colors that will soon be dated, but for now are very pretty. For all the non-English: garden = yard.