Decorate

Whether you are designing a brand new home or simply updating one room's interior, Decorate is teeming with clever, creative and quirky advice from the world's best designers and architects. The likes of Jonathan Adler, Kelly Hoppen, Amy Neunsinger, Rita Konig, Amy Butler and Abigail Ahern reveal essential tools of the trade, from where to put your furniture to how to dress a room with your own individual style. The book is a gorgeous source of essential expert guidance, featuring both quick fixes for small budgets and indulgent ideas for more ambitious projects. The text is divided into sections, each punctuated with top tips, pearls of decorating wisdom and divine designer secrets: 'Space Matters' has a blank-canvas approach, showing you how best to assess a space and work out its specific decorating needs. A section on 'Setting Your Style' profiles a huge range of different interior aesthetics, from Natural and Fleamarket Style to Modern Glamour and Eclectic. 'Room By Room' concentrates on each room of the house and tells you what you need to know to transform any area. Finally, 'Attention to Detail' reveals the smaller elements that can utterly transform a space, without affecting the architecture or structure of a building. These final touches include hanging pictures, arranging flowers, cushions and lights. Decorate's vast selection of styles, boasting contributions from the industry's top designers, makes it an essential book for anyone looking to transform their home's interior.

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'A beautiful book of practical but quirky professional decorating tips' Independent on Sunday 'This book will teach you the essential tools of the trade, from where to place furniture, to how to dress a room with individual style.' Build It 'A breath of fresh air as it combines colourful, eclectic interiors with fantastically practical advice' Resident 'Teeming with clever and creative advice collated from global designers and architects.' Utopia Kitchen & Bathroom 'All the tips you'll need to assess your space and give it the look that reflects you perfectly' Your Home 'The hottest homes book right now' Sainsbury's Magazine 'Packed full of personality and with more than 1,000 decorating ideas and inspirational pictures. It's hard to pick a favourite section with all those gorgeous photos. Four stars ****' House & Home (Ireland) 'A fascinating source of insight and guidance from those in the know' Mollie Makes 'This is definitely the interiors book for the keen designer' Houseofpaulinteriors.blogspot.com

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Holly Becker is an American writer and interior design consultant who is founder and executive editor of decor8blog.com, a leading design blog dedicated to sharing a fresh approach to decorating and meant to inspire creative living through daily posts featuring everything from home tours to colour stories, design news, handmade craft, book reviews, decorating tips and beyond. Becker has a global following of over half a million loyal readers. With over a million page views monthly and 48,000 readers per day, her blog is her first love and her dedication to it shines through in her writing. Becker's first book, Decorate, enjoyed tremendous success as a Wall Street Journal Bestseller, claiming the number 1 spot for interior design books on Amazon for more than 7 months and was reprinted 4 times in both the US and the UK. It has been translated into 7 languages, with 10 editions being sold worldwide. Her recent 20-city book tour included a launch party sponsored by Liberty London, another launch of the German version at Soho House Berlin and Anthropologie sponsored an 8-city book tour in which Holly visited Anthropologie stores throughout the US and in London to lecture, present her book and meet her readers. Holly is currently working on her second book, due for publication in Autumn 2012. From the ground up over 6 years ago, Holly built decor8, a highly regarded site that is known as a reliable design resource around the world and for 3 years she has taught a series of online workshops called Blogging Your Way, the first of its kind online to teach blogging as a creative business. She also teaches blogging, craft and styling workshops in person at various locations throughout the world. Holly is an experienced public speaker and teacher and a great communicator. Her passions include handmade crafts, quirky personalised spaces with charm, taking photos with her iPhone and world travel - her most recent trips include Marrakech, Berlin and Istanbul - three cities that really inspire her. She currently lives with her husband in northern Germany. http://decor8blog.com Joanna Copestick is a writer and editor specializing in interior design and decoration. She is the author of more than ten books, including Decorate, Perfect Palettes (with Stephanie Hoppen), The Family Home, Children's Rooms, Vital Colour and Smart Storage and her work has appeared in the Evening Standard, Red and Junior magazines. She has also worked as an interior designer, creating and adapting comfortable family homes, and has appeared on television and radio.

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