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77 Habits of Highly Creative Interior Designers (Interior Design and Architecture)

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I found the commentary from each designer interesting and occassionally insightful, but this was not the interior designer's resource book its description touts it to be.

I was expecting something much more specific and focused from this book. It's not really about 'habits' of designers at all, methinks.

Lynch should really have edited out several of the comments included here - such as: 'Lighting is essential. it is the most versatile tool we have for creating an atmosphere'.

This is an aphorism, Ms Lynch. Not a habit, not even a suggestion. It tells the reader nothing that s/he can use to improve her/his living space. Which, one may be forgiven for thinking, is the whole point of a book purporting to reveal designers' practices.

Having said this, some designers do make useful suggestions. Example from the same chapter: 'make sure lights are not directly overhead, it creates raccoon eyes. Chandeliers, sconces and lamps ..are sure to make people look good...Of course, a dimmer is a must'. This comment is not a statement of principle (you can't move sideways through this book for the vapid 'be true to/trust yourself' statements); the designer is telling us something she looks out for, a habit I can emulate myself. Lynch should have concentrated on this kind of comment to produce a useful book, rather than just a coffee-table book with some nice pictures and a few good points.

Incidentally, it's obvious that some of the designers quoted are represented throughout the book (in terms of photographs) by one project only, and others by several. Shouldn't there have been some consistency here?