Elements of Style: Designing a Home & a Life by Erin Gates
Summary: 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.
Angie's Comments: Elements of
Style gave me some ideas for decorating my apartment. As a renter, I also
appreciated the occasional “Renter’s tip”. I had to keep reminding myself while
reading this book that I don’t have anywhere close to the money that Erin’s
clients have. However, keeping that in mind, I did find some interesting ideas that
I could use in my own place. This book is another resource to use if you are interested
in changing the look of your place!
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