Home Design Workbook: A Design Guide for Every Room of the House - Softcover

Lawrence, Beverly Hall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564965139 ISBN 13: 9781564965134

Publisher: Rockport Pub, 1999

Synopsis

For all who seek redecorating resources, "Home Design Workbook" offers readers inspiration, direction, and organization for projects large and small. Packed with fresh ideas, this book contains beautiful, full-color images of professionally designed interiors. In addition, it is a clever way to organize your designing adventure - this book contains workbook pages with pertinent questions evaluating your current situation and your preferences, plus graph paper for creating personalized floor plans.

Chapters target getting started, as well as specific design aspects - walls, windows, floors - and specific rooms - kitchens. Living rooms, bedrooms - and offer advice and creative direction to help organize everything from ideas and to plans of action.

About this title

About the Author

Beverly Hall Lawrence has written about design and the decorative arts for much of her 15-year publishing career, most recently as the Home editor for Long Island's daily, Newsday.

She has also worked for the "Washington Post", the "Detroit Free Press" and the "Atlanta Journal and Constitution" as a financial news reporter. Lawrence is now creative director and chief operating officer of Hosanna, a small agency in New York providing creative writing and visual arts services.

She is also the author of the recently published non-fiction work, "Reviving the Spirit" (Grove Press), a memoir of a spiritual awakening. A graduate of Georgia State University and a native of Ashburn, Georgia, Lawrence lives in New York City with her husband, Calvin Lawrence Jr.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Welcome:
Coming Home should feel like getting a big hug. When a room has been decorated successfully, simple walking in can the spirit and encourage lingering. In this way, good decorating is about rooms "feel" as good as they look. For so many of us with active lifestyles, our homes have evolved from mere shelters. They are now entertainment centers, work stations, and storage compounds for the warehousing of our lives. The physical demands on our housing are layered and growing, with design concerns from safe child-rearing to accommodating aging parents. So, too, are our attitudes about home decoration. New needs have made us full of fresh ideas on nesting.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rockport Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564965139
• ISBN 13: 9781564965134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 159