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I just bought a gorgeous hard-back color book on The New Cottage Home, and I'm in love with it. Great photography, lots of good information. It's dreamy, and I know I'll use it a lot as we plan our new home. It cost a little over $20. On the other hand, with that new home in mind I also bought this Pocket Decorator, and I was so disappointed with it. For about the same money, the Pocket Decorator is small and has only a few no-color illustrations of furniture pieces in it. It's a kind of illustrated glossary of furnishings. How can one publisher afford to give me so much for my money while another one gives me what amounts to a glossary for about the same money? I truly believe I was… Read more
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Save your money. The Pottery Barn catalog already has handsome rooms in it. All this book does is put some text with catalog style rooms. Just pick up the catalog and get ideas from it versus buying this book-----that is my advice.
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Rooms by Mariette H Gomez
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The rooms in this book are attractive enough but they don't fit the book's title or premise. I feel cheated because I wanted a book that does what it promises by telling me how to create 'luxurious, livable spaces.' I knew I hated the photo on the cover but bought the book anyway, which was my mistake. (A room with one ottoman in it? Is that 'livability?') After I bought the book, I read that the author is a designer who is big in New York. That explains a lot about the stiffness and unreality of the rooms shown in the book. Some of those New York designers should get out and see the rest of America some time. This book is not what it is cracked up to be.
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