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Be Your Own Decorator: Taking Inspiration and Cues from Today's Top Designers [Hardcover]

Susanna Salk

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Mar 27 2012
Selecting favorite rooms from more than fifty renowned designers such as Kelly Wearstler, Bunny Williams, Albert Hadley, Nate Berkus, and Mary McDonald—and shot by the world’s top shelter photographers—Susanna Salk offers insightful advice on how to apply basic design principles to interiors.

Organized into chapters on balance, color, mixing, accessorizing, arrangements, rule breaking, and whimsy, Salk walks through the process of great design, illustrating how the featured designers made the decisions they did to make these rooms look so great. The book’s encouraging, conversational tone, practical tips and ideas, and quotes by the designers themselves explaining their philosophies empower the reader to create stylish, functional, and unique rooms of their very own.

Covering a range of styles from traditional to modern, formal to whimsical, and showcasing some of the best work by the best designers of our age, Be Your Own Decorator is a rich resource for the aspiring decorator.

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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Rizzoli (Mar 27 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0847838447
  • ISBN-13: 978-0847838448
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 2.9 x 27.9 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 Kg
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #121,716 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Be Your Own Decorator, by Susanna Salk, presents rooms by well-known designers like Jamie Drake, Ruthie Sommers and Kelly Wearstler that are intended to inspire readers to take things into their own hands." ~The New York Times

"Easy strategies to make the place where the day starts (and ends) more beautiful and comfortable." ~O - The Oprah Magazine

"For ages I have ripped pages from magazines, safely tucking them away for when I need inspiration. Now, it is as if my friend Susanna Salk did all of the work for me." ~AlltheBest.com

"...another example of the author’s ability to analyze trends and translate them so that they are easy to incorporate into our lives.  It will be difficult not to dog-ear the big, gorgeous picture book." ~CAMILLEMAURICE.COM

About the Author

Susanna Salk is the author of Room for Children and Weekend Retreats and a contributing editor for 1stdibs.com and ivillage.com, as well as regularly producing decorating segments for NBC’s Today Show.

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54 of 58 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Video Review April 4 2012
By BeachBrights - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
A great reference for the DIY decorator who is looking to be inspired by others. Fresh looks & styles are captured in every photo. Many different styles, lots of color & great advice from some very talented decorators. Take a look at my video-I flip through the pages to "give you an idea" of what the book is about. Enjoy ;)
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Valuable and Beautiful Reference Book Mar 29 2012
By Visual Vamp - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
If you are a decor maven, blogger, or an interior designer you undoubtedly collect hundreds, maybe thousands of images in good old fashion folders and clipping files, or in files on your computer. It gets a little unruly sometimes, trying to remember where you put a favorite image when you need it.
I always thought it would be a great idea to have a beautiful coffee table book filled with some of the favorite images of the rooms by the designers we all collect. And lo and behold here comes Susanna Salk's "Be Your Own Decorator".
First I love the empowering message of the title, allowing one and all to forge ahead to make a well designed room or home.
Add to this all the great images Susanna has curated and collected into this one terrific volume, and folks we have a winner here.
The book is organized in a way to be useful and aspirational, and Susanna writes to inspire.
Susanna is a wonderful expert and personality in the design world, and she shares so much for all to partake of.
So, buy this book, and enjoy!
27 of 32 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars I can't see clearly now April 17 2012
By Artful Codger - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I read several reviews about this book and ordered it looking forward to rooms that were more liveable than the often overly done pictures in magazines. The photographs are lovely. There are some wonderful ideas to be gleaned from looking at them. The copy? Well, I've never been a fan of small type overburned on color. Particularly when the type is in a color as well. If the copy isn't worth reading, don't include it. The design of this book is truly abysmal. I'd even call it arrogant is its total disregard for the READER!

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