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Kelly Hoppen, multi-award-winning designer and TV personality,
shares her essential style solutions that will transform your home.
Kelly knows what works, and here she shows you how to do it by
bringing together creative ideas and inspiration alongside a wealth
of professional know-how, practical advice and cost-effective style
solutions that can work for every home, big or small. Whether you
are a young professional renting a flat, a first-time homebuyer or
an experienced homeowner who wants to give your home a dash of
Kelly Hoppen glamour, this book will help you create a beautiful,
functional and relaxing home that suits your individual needs and
reflects your personality. With over 200 images, carefully selected
and curated by a world-renowned design guru with over 40 years'
experience, Kelly Hoppen's Essential Style Solutions for Every Home
gives you: Clear and easy-to-follow advice on the first principles
of style including tones and colour, texture, light and finishing
touches. The lowdown on practicalities, budgeting and prioritizing
from Kelly's expert perspective. Tried-and-tested tricks of the
trade that show you how to use colour and tones that will make your
rooms feel bigger and brighter. Tips on how to dress and
accessorise rooms for maximum impact. Room-by-room case studies
focus on the main spaces in the home as well as dead space such as
corridors, addressing the feeling you are aiming to create, and
setting out the core elements and top styling tips to allow you to
achieve this. Where applicable, Kelly makes cost-cutting
suggestions for saving money by choosing less-expensive materials,
advising what it's worth splashing out on and where you can afford
to spend less, as well as ideas for making quick-and-easy seasonal
updates to inexpensively refresh your rooms on a regular basis. Get
the luxe look for less with Kelly Hoppen's Essential Style
Solutions for Every Home.
The debut book from social media sensation @tanyahomeinspo!
Easy and Essential Tips and Inspiration for Cleaning, Organising and
Improving Your Space from social media’s best-loved home hacks inspo
account!
Do you often find yourself scrolling through social media wishing your
home looked more like the ones you see on there? Have you assumed it's
too expensive to buy an array of cleaning products that you simply
don't have enough space to store? Do you struggle with keeping your
home tidy and organised? If any of this sounds familiar, this book is
perfect for you!
Offering hacks to organise your home without breaking the bank; ways to
increase your storage; easy cleaning hacks using common household
items; schedules for day-to-day plus deep cleans and spring cleans;
recipes for homemade products using natural ingredients; interior DIY
hacks; and even party planning tips and tricks to make the most of your
space! Tanya Mukendi will show you how to make your home beautiful and
tidy in the shortest time possible, freeing you up to do other things.
Whether you’ve just moved into a new place and want to make it feel
like home; need help with organisation; or want a magic cure for those
inevitable spills and stains, Hack Your Home is your new one-stop go-to
guide for keeping your home beautiful, clean and organised! Packed with
tips to help you be more efficient with your cleaning routine, saving
you time and money; plus ideas to reduce energy bills and environmental
impact through simple hacks, this book will help you create a
beautiful, calming home, that you will love spending time in.
Home by the Sea: The Surf Shacks and Hinterland Hideaways of Byron
Bay is a beautiful interiors book that opens the doors to a range
of diverse and inspiring homes in the burgeoning creative community
of Australia's Byron Bay. Step inside eighteen stunning homes
across a range of styles, from interior designer Louella
Boitel-Gill's Gypsy Creek home to architect Zana Wright's
off-the-grid Quandong Cottage, to fashion designers Lara Fells of
St Agni and Candice Rose-O'Rourke of Zulu & Zephyr. Home by the
Sea tells the stories of these homes and the people who live there
- uncovering, in the process, that there is so much more to Byron
Bay than its natural beauty. This is a book about community and
creativity, about living intentionally and the value of loving
where you live. Created by locals, including best-selling author
Natalie Walton, and showcasing the light-filled interior and
lifestyle photography of Amelia Fullarton, Home by the Sea offers a
unique and unforgettable taste of what it's like to live in this
iconic town.
Whether it's empty-nest syndrome, a desire to streamline one's
house to make travel and hobbies more affordable, or a divorce or
death in the family, people are seeking ways to live large while
living smaller. In Upscale Downsizing, home-style guru Leslie
Linsley shows readers that small can be beautiful and
elegant...style and personal taste can still reign supreme,
especially if homeowners have spent a lifetime accumulating lovely
things they don't want to part with. Whatever your budget, Leslie
shows you ways to keep what you love, make your environment fresh
and appealing, and enjoy the new home you've always wanted. Using
examples ranging from 600 sq ft apartments to two-story condos,
she'll share ideas for: problem solving including storage tricks,
entertaining in small spaces, flexible layouts and furniture;
repurposing your space; living with what you absolutely can't live
without - and much more. Will be lushly illustrated with over 200
full-colour photographs.
A celebration of season, Flower Philosophy presents a selection of
beautiful arrangements designed to free readers from the pressures
of perfection and instead encourage creative freedom, intuition and
original results. Flowers are not perfect, and flower arranging
shouldn't be either. Anna Potter, author of best-selling Flower
Fix, teaches us how to listen and learn from nature to create
something truly original with 25 combinations of stems and foliage.
Free yourself from a prescriptive, one- size-fits-all approach and
let each unique bloom inspire you with this refreshingly honest and
liberating florist's guide. Featuring: A NEW PERSPECTIVE: Start
with nature and let this inform your arranging A WEALTH OF
PRACTICAL ADVICE: All the basic, essential information on flora,
seasons, colour and arranging BUDGET-CONSCIOUS CHOICES: From small
humble buds to large luxe flowers eg weed arrangements. Plus
foliage, fruit, vegetables, sea shells and anything grown out of
the ground. 25 FLEXIBLE FLOWER PROJECTS: Step-by-step, with
options/prompts to encourage autonomy, originality, creativity
PERSONAL TOUCHES: Author's stories, poems, thoughts, experiences
and musings FLORAL THERAPY: Tips to improve wellbeing with nature;
tap into its mindful benefits throughout the arranging process A
FLOWER THESAURUS: An unorthodox flower index of favourite and
too-often-forgotten flowers, ideas for pairings, benefits to the
senses and mood, meanings etc. Arranged by season, Anna Potter
guides you through the process of creating your own wreathes,
bouquets and installations, all using flowers that can be bought,
found and foraged from your neighbourhood. Accompanied by stunning
photography from India Hobson, this book provides the basic
foundations to pick, choose and assemble with unlimited
possibilities.
Presents guidelines and step-by-step projects for decorating
ordinary household items and features. The text introduces the
materials and equipment needed and covers the basic techniques,
from preparing surfaces and cutting a stencil to protecting the
finished work with varnish. The main part of the book takes
elements of the home in turn: walls and floors; furniture;
accessories and fabrics; and outdoor spaces. Also included are
ideas for borders and alternative applications for each motif,
together with a section on materials and techniques.
Swedish-born, London-based interior designer Beata Heuman founded
her eponymous studio in 2013 after working for Nicky Haslam for
nine years. In a short amount of time her lively interiors and
custom furnishings have made her one of today s most in-demand
creatives. Heuman s rooms, colourful spaces enlivened by exuberant
elements and poetic inspirations, capture her signature quirkiness
and Scandinavian attention to detail while staying rooted in
practicality. Lauded for international residential and commercial
projects, Heuman has also garnered praise for her growing
collection of bespoke fabrics, wallpaper, lighting, homewares, and
furniture. This beautifully crafted volume presents Heuman s
innovative approach in book form for the very first time. Organized
according to design principle, each chapter offers fresh ways to
think about decorating a home, finding your voice, making ordinary
details extraordinary, and forging a truly unique space. Vibrant
photographs showcase standout properties including several London
town houses and a Nantucket vacation residence that are brought to
life by cheerful colour palettes, unexpected contrasts, and a
degage use of bold patterns and texture. With original drawings and
whimsical graphic details, this new tome is a dynamic look into the
ethos and work of one of the most exciting names in interior design
today.
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