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From the rising-star designer and author of the hit blog, Elements of Style, a full-color, fully illustrated book packed with honest advice, inspiration, ideas, and lessons learned about designing a home that reflects your personality and style.
Elements of Style is a uniquely personal and practical decorating guide that shows how designing a home can be an outlet of personal expression and an exercise in self-discovery. Drawing on her ten years of experience in the interior design industry, Erin combines honest design advice and gorgeous professional photographs and illustrations with personal essays about the lessons she has learned while designing her own home and her own life—the first being: none of our homes or lives is perfect. Like a funny best friend, she reveals the disasters she confronted in her own kitchen renovation, her struggles with anorexia, her epic fight with her husband over a Lucite table, and her secrets for starting a successful blog.
Organized by rooms in the house, Elements of Style invites readers into Erin’s own home as well as homes she has designed for clients. Fresh, modern, and colorful, it is brimming glamour and style as well as advice on practical matters from choosing kitchen counter materials to dressing a bed with pillows, picking a sofa, and decorating a nursery without cartoon characters. You’ll also find a charming foreword by Erin’s husband, Andrew, and an extensive Resource and Shopping Guide that provides an indispensable a roadmap for anyone embarking on their first serious home decorating adventure. With Erin’s help, you can finally make your house your home.
From the Publisher
ASIN : 1476744874
Publisher : Simon & Schuster (October 7, 2014)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781476744872
ISBN-13 : 978-1476744872
Item Weight : 2.5 pounds
Dimensions : 1.18 x 7.64 x 9.45 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book’s style appealing with its attractive photographs and layout. They appreciate the informative content and interesting mix of memoir, design guide, and pretty coffee table ideas. Readers praise the writing style as wonderful, easy to read, and talented. They enjoy the humorous personal stories and humor. The designs are praised for being simple to incorporate into designs without breaking the bank. The author’s voice is described as genuine and cost-conscious.
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