Trade Secrets: Insider Advice on Getting Your Own Personal Style
Category: Books,Crafts, Hobbies & Home,Home Improvement & Design
Trade Secrets: Insider Advice on Getting Your Own Personal Style Details
Highlights 21 homes of product designers, interior designers, photostylists, and shopkeepers. This inspirational book is filled with the newest ideas and pro tips to create personal style using color, furniture, accessories, and fabrics. Ideas for styles, from clean contemporary to relaxed Tuscan and more.Shows quick ways to get ready for guests plus 12 weekend ideas to freshen homes.Includes source lists to get "the look" with must-have fabrics, antiques, and accessories.
Reviews
I am now half way through Trade Secrets and am loving it. It has the perfect balance of photos and text and tons of useful tips for how to replicate the styles you love in the book. As with a fabulous novel, I am taking each section very slowly, savoring the text, studying the details, and trying to figure out how to make everything work for my new house. The other reviewer is right--it is very much like a magazine, rather than an interior design text book, and this is a good thing. It's an entree into the homes of some of the most creatively minded people out there. What's best is that a lot of different styles are represented, it's not all the starkly metal modern of Metropolitan Home or the flouncy romantic cottage style of Country Living. If you're bored w/ the Pottery Barn cookie-cutter look and are after fresh ideas, look no further!
