October 2023 MBR The Interior Design Shelf

The Interior Design Shelf

The Home Style Handbook
Lucy Gough, author
Simon Bevan, photographer
Mitchell Beazley
c/o Octopus Books
www.octopusbooksusa.com
9781784728632, $40.00, HC, 224pp

https://www.amazon.com/Home-Style-Handbook-make-home/dp/1784728632

Synopsis: We all want to live in a home that reflects our personalities, our experiences, our life's journey. But if we are not a professional decorator or stylist, where do we start?

"The Home Style Handbook: How to make a home your own" is an inspirational and helpful DIY 'how-to' manual and guide in which interiors stylist and tutor Lucy Gough will teach you how to understand your true style and how to implement it in how you decorate your living space.

Your dream home needn't be a spacious, architecturally designed building -- it well could be small or rented. With "The Home Style Handbook" you will discover what you love and what makes you happy -- all so that you can surround yourself with the colors, furniture, furnishings and finishing touches that inspire you.

For Lucy, every good room scheme starts with a moodboard and she explains how to create your own and features them throughout this instructive guide that explores the elements within a series of home case studies and why they work.

"The Home Style Handbook" includes: How to translate magazine imagery into your home; How to create impact with art, plants and accessories; How to style your kitchen, living room, bathroom, home office and hallway; Key inspirational case studies.

Critique: Profusely and beautifully illustrated throughout with the full color photography of Simon Bevan, "The Home Style Handbook: How to make a home your own" is a complete, comprehensive, and 'user friendly' course of inspiring instruction that will enable even the most novice of DIY home interior design aspirants to successfully remake, remodel, rearrange their personal abode to reflect their particular interests, preferences, and ideas. While also available for personal reading lists in a digital book format (Kindle, $9.99), "The Home Style Handbook: How to make a home your own" is a solid and unreservedly recommended pick for community library DIY Home Interior Design collections.

Editorial Note: Lucy Gought (https://www.lucygoughstylist.com) is an Australian-born interior stylist who has lived and worked in London for the last 12 years, but is currently based in New South Wales. Lucy has art directed, styled and created concepts for brands and publications including John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, Livingetc, Homes & Gardens, The Sunday Times, You Magazine, Dulux, Crown Paint, Heal's and many others, and continues to create unique and inspiring imagery for all her clients. She writes regularly for The Sunday Times and has a monthly 'design your space' column in House Beautiful UK.

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