Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Interior Design Best Selling Books
Holly Becker writes Decorate: 1000 Professional Design Ideas for Every Room in Your House. In this book, top Designers come together to share over 1000 tips on how you can change your room and do it to meet your budget. You can get inspiration from the beautiful colored examples in the book, photos of bathrooms, bedrooms, kitchens, parlors, as well as checklists, shortcuts, and cost cutting methods, so that you will be sure to find something in there that meets your eye as well as an explanation of how to make it possible in your own home.
Christine Lemieux writes Undecorate, a book that heralds a brand new kind of style that seeks to push aside the stuffy professional styles of today and bring their own personality into their home. The book profiles about twenty homes all over the nation and shows how it came to be the way it was by tying it in with the owner's particular personality. Following the interests of car fanatics who turn their master bedroom into an air stream trailer to a couple that makes their house a log house, to someone who creates and English manor, to a variety of other kinds of strange creations that reveal the personality of the builder, this book will show you how to accomplish the same feat.
Domino: The Book of Decorating, written by Deborah Needleman is a book that offers step by step guides to decorating your rooms. No matter what styles you prefer, the book will have something in that vein as well as tips on how to mix and match styles, too. The Domino team contributes their own personal Design efforts so you can see how they transformed their own rooms and in what kinds of styles they decided to work in. This is a great book if you are interested in redoing a room in your house.
My Passion for Design by Barbara Streisand is a beautifully illustrated persona tour of the great star's homes and collections. From the Broadway stage, television and film stardom, her work as a director, and her work in the recording studio, Barbara has been an iconic figure with an extraordinary voice and immense talent. Now, in her first book, Barbara gives readers a glimpse into the taste that has inspired her beautiful home. This book focuses on the architecutre and construction of her home and contains many photographs of rooms she decorated herself. Other illustrations include the gardens she planted on her California coastal land. She gives us a look into the world of on of the most beloved stars.
Charlotte Moss Decorates: The Art of Creating Elegant and Inspired Rooms by Charlotte Moss gives a singular vision through a beautiful collection of her acclaimed rooms. Moss has led a celebrated career in the Interior Design world. Her book offers readers a glimpse into the methods behind her magic. For each room that is featured, Moss breaks the numerous stages of the Design process, revealing storyboards and sketches developed for each project. Each chapter offers a dose of decorating advice and includes recommendations for her favorite flowers and fragrances.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Kitchen Interior Design - The Importance of Getting it Right
If there is one room in the house that is very important when it comes to Design, it is the Kitchen. This room is often times the heart, or the center, of the home. This is where most families spend a great deal of their time together. The Interior Design of the Kitchen needs to not only be reflective of your family's taste and personality, it also needs to be highly functional.
No one likes to try and prepare a meal in a Kitchen that is not as functional and up to date as it should be. For this reason it is highly important that if you are considering a Kitchen reDesign, that you take your time and research all of the different Designs that are out there for you to choose from.
While you are searching for information, there are many places that you may want to go to find it. many people choose to do a hands on search at a local home improvement store. This is a great way to just see what all is available and at what price. However, the best way to get information is to simply start online. The internet has a plethora of information on just about anything that you want to know. When it comes to Kitchen Designs, this is one of the best tools that you can use.
Not only will you be able to see what all is available and how much, you will even get to see all of the different Interior Kitchen Designs that other people are using. There are even companies that operate online only, who will help you come up with a new Design. They do this by working with you and learning what it is that you are interested in and what your personal tastes are. This is a wonderful way to get a plan for what exactly it is that you are trying to achieve.
All in all, a newly reDesigned Kitchen can change the look and feel of your entire house. That is if it is done correctly. This can only happen if you take the time that is necessary to research all of your options. Remember that hasty decisions can often times result in a Design that does not fit in your home or with your style ideas. Therefore, take your time, use the right tools of research, and get the Kitchen Design that you have always wanted for your home.
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