Leanne Ford – författare

Designer and HGTV personality Leanne Ford shares her fresh, “do your home your way” approach and her freeing design process for loosening up, thinking differently, and creating a warm and soulful home for all to enjoyFeel Free Home is the art of free-thinking home design. It’s permission to listen to your heart about what feels right in your space, and to use each room as your own creative canvas.Join Leanne Ford as she shares ideas for creating warm, lovely, and livable surroundings tailored to you and your family—and encourages you to be bold and to do your home your way.In this practical guide, Ford presents design tricks and techniques learned through her decades-long career of renovating, repairing, restoring, and decorating houses. Her savvy advice is a breath of fresh air for real-world home design:Don’t be too perfect or you will lose the charm and homeyness of a space.Keep what you can and reuse what you have—in with the old!Painting anything gives it new lifeLess is more—and undone can be beautiful.Silly solutions are sometimes the bestEach chapter offers readers down-to-earth decorating ideas, design hacks, and a wealth of how-to recipes for creating wall textures, exposed ceilings, painted floors, low-cost kitchen and bath makeovers, and much more.You will come away empowered, inspired, and with a new perspective on how to make your home more joyful, relaxed, and just right for you.

Now available in trade paper! How did a couple of quirky siblings from suburban Pittsburgh end up as the king and queen of eclectic-design chic with their own HGTV show? They never let fear get in the way of a great idea. Leanne and Steve Ford share their secrets for how to turn dreams into reality.Leanne and Steve were middle-class kids growing up in Pittsburgh in the 80s and 90s. There was nothing particularly glamorous or unusual about their lives as kids. Leanne was a shy, stubborn child who lived a rich life in her own imagination. Steve was outdoorsy and offbeat and was bullied mercilessly at school for being different. Their parents, grounded in faith and always encouraging of both creativity and hard work, gave them the confidence and the encouragement they needed to pursue the often difficult creative life. Leanne’s slogan as a child was, “My name is Leanne. If I want to, I can.”Leanne studied clothing design and pulled gigs at fashion houses in New York and as a stylist to country music stars in Nashville before she found her true passion: interior design. Steve threw himself into kayaking and snowboarding and opening his own men’s clothing store in Pittsburgh. And then their individual passions converged when Leanne asked Steve to help renovate her bathroom. There was magic in their collaboration, and they began renovating for clients in Pittsburgh—creating unique, authentic spaces that manage to feel both chic and completely obtainable—before catching the eye of producers at HGTV.Leanne and Steve share the details of their journey, including the beliefs that have inspired them and the experiences that have challenged them along the way.