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Thom Filicia Style: Inspired Ideas for Creating Rooms You'll Love

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First, I have to say that this is a gorgeous book with beautiful photographs. Even if you're not looking to redecorate, it is a wonderful book to flip through and keep on your coffee table.

On top of that, it's all about using your own personal style to decorate your space. So while Thom Filicia has excellent taste and style, this book makes it about you, not about him. I just moved into a new apartment, and this book could not have been more helpful in helping me figure out how best to decorate it. I was able to use a lot of the pieces that I already own, but in ways that only made them look better. This book is a great inspiration.

A friend gave me this book, I guess because she felt like my apartment looked like a mish-mash of things I liked, without any real connection.
From the minute I opened Thom's book I realized with just a few additions and rearranging I could transform my own style into a great looking apartment that was still all about me. I recently had a dinner party and people were amazed with the transformation - I was even accused of hiring a designer to help!
And the book is beautiful, so now it's on display as it well deserves to be.
I've got a bunch of other single friends living in NYC and I plan to give them all this book for the holidays!

This book is beautiful! The photos and graphics are fabulous and the advice is so useful! I love how Thom's designs are assembled - they are a mix of new items, antiques and collections that you already own but made so much more beautiful by the colors and surface materials. The absolute truth is that I've already stolen one of his ideas and implemented it in my new house - and it looks great!

Packed with lots of achievable ideas, this is best when used as a Do-It-Yourself guide. After just a few words of introduction by Albert Hadley, a bio complete with time line is given. Mr Filicia worked as an intern at the legendary interior design firm Parish-Hadley before going on to the office of Robert Metzger and then Jeffrey Bilhuber. He gained critical acclaim from the design magazines when opening his own office, but celebrity status came when he was one of the stars of the cable TV series "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy".

The projects, often accompanied with a floor plan to show the layout, tend to feature furniture of the hand-me-down variety combined with accessories that often appear more like props to make an interesting photo than to really contribute to the design of the room. Not a bad approach in decorating one's own home, to be sure. This is a good book for young marrieds looking to achieve some style on a budget. But for those wanting to learn the finer points of interior design, there are better books for study.

So really what Thom does is pure talent - meaning sure he is not reinventing the wheel - but he has that nack of being able to pull together that crisp perfect comfort look that is impossible to do. There are plenty of great ideas that can be duplicated in this book - vivid pics and step by step processes that really lend well to being able to assist in doing it yourself.

I bought several copies to give away as housewarming gifts and holiday stocking stuffers.

I really liked this book. It has some fresh ideas and Thom Filicia is always rockin' the interiors he creates. The only thing I would change is to have even more photos.

There are plenty of ideas ideas in this book to help you create an attractive home. There are tips galore, such as: "Neutral rooms loaded with tactile zing seem drenched in color--but better" (p 68). Most of the rooms he decorated are more modern than traditional, but even in the traditional rooms he tackled he brings a fresh outlook to, such as the faux mastadon tusks he placed above a sofa on page 38. That was something I would never have considered! There is also a helpful section at the end showing case studies, so you can pull everything together.

I loved Thom Filica's show, Dress My Nest, and I love this book just as much. It's equal parts glamor, equal parts vintage modern. It's just a great design book all the way around.

Even if you don't know what your design aesthetic is (or know what that means!) Thom Filicia's book will surely draw it out. I found so many things appealing about the book with the practical tips for home decor, accompanied by beautiful photos, and even moods that you can refer to when considering how to decorate or just add something new to your home. I keep this in my living room and thoroughly enjoy looking at it regularly as it seems I always find or learn something new.

If you enjoy Thom Filicia's creative designs on "Queer" and "Dress My Nest", you will absolutely love this book. It's a book that you can look at over and over and it is filled with great ideas, fab pictures and great insight into Thom's life and design philosophy. Two enthusiastic thumbs up.