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Decorate: 1,000 Design Ideas for Every Room in Your Home Hardcover – April 20, 2011
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Print length288 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherChronicle Books
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Publication dateApril 20, 2011
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Reading age18 years and up
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Dimensions8.75 x 1.13 x 11 inches
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ISBN-100811877892
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ISBN-13978-0811877893
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About the Author
Joanna Copestick is the author of over ten lifestyle and décor books. She lives in London.
Debi Treloar has photographed for Elle Décor, the Sunday Times, and over thirty books. She lives in London.
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- Publisher : Chronicle Books; 1/30/11 edition (April 20, 2011)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0811877892
- ISBN-13 : 978-0811877893
- Reading age : 18 years and up
- Item Weight : 3.5 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.75 x 1.13 x 11 inches
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The styles represented are fresh and vibrant; this book should appeal to folks who like modern, vintage, flea-market, DIY, urban, retro, cottage, rural, industrial, bohemian, global, mid-century, heirloom, Apartment Therapy, eclectic and any variation on these themes. These are real homes in which you can easily imagine folks living. It is fun to see designers Jonathan Adler & Simon Doonan's home and Vicente Wolf's loft in the mix. If you've ever wondered how one-room living and sleeping would be, Liz Bauer's NYC studio apartment in this book (and Billy Baldwin's from another book) are convincing that you can have a bed in your living room and still look stylish! Loved her space.
This book exceeded my expectations--didn't really know what to expect regarding how 1000 quality design ideas would fit in one book--and think it will be especially valuable to those who want their home to express them and their personal vision of a lively, lovable and livable space.
P.S. Thanks for sharing ideas on creating inspiration boards - such a generous bonus.
DECORATE is filled with soulful, creative interiors. EVERY page has something I can use, something I can incorporate, an idea that I can expand on.
This is a decorating book that I have actually READ cover to cover! It is not just filled with gorgeous inspirational photographs, but there are fabulous quotes from designers, useful room layouts, palette ideas, and tons of style ideas!
The rooms in DECORATE are not stiff and matchy matchy, or locked into a defined 'style'. This book gives room for all styles. The rooms in DECORATE look clean, crisp and purposeful. You can see the human touch behind the design. I LOVE the chalkboard wall on page 42 and the surprising purple shade on page 38, and the colorfully painted furniture on pages 118-119!
Oh, and I LOVE the fun busy flowered wallpaper and raspberry kitchen on page 124, if for nothing else than it is luscious eye candy!
Every page has a take-away, something wonderful that you can apply to your own home or your own project. This will be a wonderful book to show my clients. And I am already using it to inspire my own home!
These interiors have a feeling of being created over time. Designing a room over time, incorporating old and new, mixing in some quirky or surprising accessories, really layering the design is what sets this book apart.
I have been a big fan of Decor8, Holly's blog, and this book lives up to those high standards. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
I love all the section on the book, but I personally adore the tips and picture for a compact space/ one bed room as we live in the very limited space and it is a great tips that we can apply too.
I love the author too, Holly Becker as she is my blogger teacher and I always portray her as a warm and genuine person, and I thought the book is just her reflection and her honest intentions to share her expertise to us the reader, and for that I really appreciate it.
( I am sorry I don' t know Joanna personally, but I think she is lovely person too)
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I was hoping for something more stylish with soothing colour schemes. I'm not sure I could live in any of the rooms pictured with the contrasting colours and dusting that would be required. No, I am not a minimalist, but looking at this book is sending me that way!
What I was thinking/hoping the book would help with: various colour schemes or advice on how to counteract bad lighting in rooms, e.g. if your room is north facing what to do; use of wallpaper, different paint effects, different styles, e.g. the colours to use and how to decorate if you want a Moroccan style, Scandi/Retro etc. Unfortunately there was none of that.
The book seems to recommend placing a load of nik-naks in your room - the rooms seem all very busy with ornaments and white walls, mismatched furniture. No inspiration for me at all. I am about to get rid of the book. Not worth the shelf space.
1. Space Matters: 'using', 'linking', 'flexible', 'compact'
2. Setting Your Style: 'simple', 'natural', 'modern', 'flea', 'colourful', 'floral', 'eclectic', 'modern glamour'
3. Room by room: 'kitchens', 'urban kitchen', 'cook's kitchen', 'sociable kitchen', 'living spaces'...
4. Attention to Detail: 'finishing touches', 'mirrors', 'lighting', 'cushions', 'flowers', 'table settings'
There are many nice quotes by professionals or connoisseurs into interior decoration, most of them rather inspiring, although sometimes they might contradic one another, which is a reflection of the open-endedness of the publication.
There are specific case studies of homes discussed in further details.
Some pictures/examples are featured twice throughout the book, which might feel a bit cheeky, especially if the book is read from cover to cover.
It is actually advisable to read the book from beginning to end, then to come back to it according to your needs or interests at any given moment, as it is also to a great extent a picture book.
From this angle, it also puts the book under strain as there is nowadays an unbeatable picture book, ie. Internet.
But this book might prove especially useful for beginners in decoration, who need some pointers to start with.
The first section, "Space Matters" gives pointers to assess the space that you have, how to make the best use of it and ways that you might alter it to make it feel larger or brighter. The next section, "Setting Your Style" talks you through the process of creating a mood board and identifying your own personal style. Maybe you want your home environment to be colourful and uplifting or calm and soothing, perhaps you want it to be about glamour or perhaps a more lived in flea market chic is your style. Regardless, you will find help and inspiration here.
The third section talks you through very specific tips and ideas, room by room, including lots of layout sketches and explanations about the design elements that are contributing to the overall feel. I particularly liked the sections on children's rooms and workspaces - divine! Finally, the authors talk about the details that pull a room together and ways to display collections of items. There is also a comprehensive index of suppliers whom the writers recommend for sourcing furniture, rugs, fabrics, vintage homewares and lots of other beautiful items.
Quite aside from the wealth of useful information, this is a beautiful book which is a delight to look through (and which will keep you going for a long time). The houses that are featured are from countries as diverse as the US, UK, Australia, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.














