SoulSpace: Transform Your Home, Transform Your Life -- Creating a Home That Is Free of Clutter, Full of Beauty, and Inspired by You - Softcover

Balbes, Xorin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608680371 ISBN 13: 9781608680375

Publisher: New World Library, 2011

Synopsis

Xorin Balbes created his eight-stage SoulSpace process to help his clients create homes that reflect and celebrate what is essential about their inhabitants. The process works for any budget, anytime, anywhere and results in inspiration, self-discovery, and practical solutions. Through the stages — assess, release, cleanse, dream, discover, create, elevate, and celebrate — you will explore not only the design of your abode but also your own interior: how you think, feel, and sense the world. Empowered with this self-knowledge, you will discover fresh ways to declutter, refresh, and enhance your living space. Xorin’s wonderfully unique technique will nurture and transform both your soul and your home.

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About the Author

Xorin Balbes is an award-winning architectural conservator, designer, philanthropist, and co-owner of the interior and architectural design firm SoulSpace Home. His most recent project is the transformation of the Fred Baldwin Memorial Home on Maui into SoulSpace Sanctuary, a rejuvenation destination with twenty-eight ocean-view bedrooms and a farm-to-table restaurant. Xorin divides his time between Los Angeles and Maui.

Reviews

Los Angeles interior designer Balbes begins his helpful first book by describing the eight SoulSpace stages and how a modest interior renovation can make major changes in an individual’s life. Rather than meander from room to room, the author uses his clients as true-life examples in each one of his stages. Keeping a never-worn wedding gown, for instance, hampers one woman’s personal growth; a comment from Balbes epitomizes his philosophy about that problem: “If it is beautiful but makes you feel lousy, let it go.” He points to the power of positive thinking through objects; his partner Jason, once a Broadway actor, reconnected with his award and begins realizing success. Balbes also advocates maximizing the kinds of items and events that transform a living space, whether it’s the creation of a mood board, the answers to an interior’s issues (like noisy neighbors or low-lighted areas), or the celebration of a space meant to live and love in. --Barbara Jacobs

Edition details

• Publisher: New World Library
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608680371
• ISBN 13: 9781608680375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216