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Slob Proof! Real-Life Home Decorating Solutions

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This book is practical yet beautiful and written with much humor! This is not just a designer's showhouse tip book but a guide book of design for all. Debbie Wiener has definitely tapped a unique niche in the often over the top world of interior design.

Lots of really good suggestions for the organizationally challenged. I really liked the shopping lists.

This book is a must have for terrific tips on decorating your home to make it slob proof. It includes wonderful ideas to make your home beautiful and liveable even if your husband is a slob, you have a pet(s) and your kids are typically messy. It includes a lot of useful information and includes stories and humor that many can relate to. I have gotten decorating books before that I thought reflected my lifestyle, but was disappointed when there was not a lot of information I could use. This book really has useful information to make my home very liveable and beautiful too!

It's about time someone wrote this kind of book. Most design books too overdone, but this book really speaks to families like ours. We both work, we have kids and they have friends over all the time. Our top priority when we buy furniture is to find something that will last. This book told us what to look for in carpets and seating. She lists many online sites that are quite helpful. Plus, the designer is funny and you feel she's just like you- not looking down on your taste and style. Overall, it's well organized and actually quite funny and we could relate to her own family stories. Her hand-written notes help you focus on what's important.

I loved this book. I first heard about Debbie on the Jen & Vicky podcast show. She was great and I loved how you could decorate without having to replace everything every two years. I have beige carpet and a dog that has made a mess of it. I can't wait to replace my flooring and I am definetly using Debbie's decorating advise. Buy the book you won't be sorry!

My sister gave me this book as a present and I must admit I am a slob (packrat is more like it) so I laughed outloud when I read the title and continued to laugh as I turned the pages of this very helpful and informative book. I'm so glad it was published!

The book is helpful and easy to understand. For anyone looking to slob proof their house. Pictures are a little dated, but the ideas are useful.

For design advice that tackles the reality of how you really live instead of offering fantasies on how you would like to live, read Slob Proof! by Debbie Wiener. Thanks to Wiener's years of experience as a professional interior designer and her years of living with a husband and children who are slobs, she is able to design living spaces that are both attractive and practical.

Wiener's friendly writing style and personal anecdotes about how her own family of slobs inspired many of her design solutions makes this a fun as well as practical read. From floor to ceiling Wiener covers it all. She tells you which flooring options, including stone, wood and carpeting, are going to last the longest and look the best. Anyone whose living room has basically turned into a dining room with the stains to prove it will appreciate her fabric suggestions for chairs and couches. Not only does she identify the most indestructible stain resistant fabrics to use she show you how using patterns can cleverly camouflage the stains. Whether talking about wall paint, window coverings, floors or furniture, the author emphasizes stain resistance, stain camouflage, practicality and durability. She also lists specific brands and manufacturers to make the decorating process easier.

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Slob Proof is a to-the-point resource for people who want to LIVE in their homes, not just look at them. Some people like to be able to put their feet up on the sofa, to wear their shoes in their house, and to enjoy pets (and children and grandchildren!).

Debbie Wiener is on your side.

SLOB PROOF offers advice (including lots of gorgeous photos) about how to decorate your home in a way that will not require you to follow around your loved ones with a broom and feather duster to keep it looking nice. She focuses on form and function. Her ideas are such that it makes a home not only more beautiful, but more livable (including a few creative uses of remote controls!).

She explains why color and pattern are your friends, and even recommends some specific brands and products. I would have liked to see more of this, perhaps, and what I was really hoping for was some organizational or storage information -- that's why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. I know it's not an organizing book, but the fact is that for most of us our rooms and furniture are not showcases, but areas that house work-stations, hold books and games and toys etc.

But if you are redoing any of your rooms -- floors, walls or furniture -- as we have been doing gradually, I can highly recommend this book.