Good Design Can Change Your Life: Beautiful Rooms, Inspiring Stories - Softcover

Pennington, Ty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743294742 ISBN 13: 9780743294744

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2008

Synopsis

BRING TY PENNINGTON, THE HOST OF EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION, INTO YOUR HOME AND MAKE YOUR DESIGN DREAMS BECOME REALITY.

Ty Pennington and the millions of people who watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition know that you can not only transform a home in seven days, you can transform someone's life. If he could, Ty would renovate every home in America, but even he doesn't have that much energy! So he's written Good Design Can Change Your Life: Beautiful Rooms, Inspiring Stories and filled the book with proof that you don't need a bulldozer and a million bucks to realize your dreams.

Focusing on the three most important parts of your home -- sleeping spaces, living spaces, and working spaces -- Ty offers low-cost, high-impact ideas for every budget. You'll learn how to express your personality and your passions in your design and how to get the most out of small spaces and limited time. Whether you want to create a welcoming living room that helps you connect with friends and family, a restful bedroom that lets you face the day energized and optimistic, or a streamlined home office that keeps you productive, Ty has some great ideas to share. From the elegant to the funky, the whimsical to the restful; from walls, floors, and lighting to storage, wallpaper, and fabric -- it's all here, infused with Ty's vitality and great style, along with the emotional stories of the people who changed his life as much as the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition crew changed theirs.

About this title

About the Author

Ty Pennington is the host of ABC's hit series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. He has won awards in graphic design and worked as a set designer and as a model before being cast as the carpenter in The Learning Channel's series Trading Spaces. Ty has developed his own line of home products for Sears, Howard Miller,and Lumber Liquidators and has launched Ty Pennington at Home magazine.

Reviews

Pennington, host of the television series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (EMHE) and author of Ty's Tricks, explores over 20 EMHE projects, giving practical advice on how an amateur can achieve similar results. Fans of the show will be interested in the background stories of the families and their design challenges. In addition, Pennington offers concrete advice on accessing needs, defining personal style, and selecting furniture and color for every room of the house. Although the text is a bit wordy, Pennington's writing style makes the advice easy to absorb. Because his TV series is so popular, this book will find a readership in many public libraries.
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If you want to inject light, energy, and optimism into your life, making over your home—or even just a single room—is a good place to start, maintains Ty Pennington, the spiky-haired host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and designer of a home goods line for Sears. With that credo in mind, Pennington sets out to help average homeowners redesign their home—and presumably their life—one room at a time. The book focuses on the three high-impact areas of the house: the bedrooms, living spaces and work spaces, and includes lists and special sections such as Balancing a Room with Art and Big Ideas for Small Spaces. The text relies heavily on personal stories and design experiences from the families that have appeared on his show. In the end, Pennington, with his off-the-wall personality, provides a solid and basic design manual. (Sept.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743294742
• ISBN 13: 9780743294744
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240