Animal House Style: Designing a Home to Share With Your Pets

A stylish, informative interior design guide that combines practical and aesthetic solutions for people who want to create an exceptional home for themselves and their pets-now in paperback. Animal House Style is the first decorating book to offer practical advice for pet owners on how to select high-performance furnishings for maximum human, canine, feline, and other animal comfort. Most important, it features what steps can be taken to keep your pet-friendly interiors looking their best, and other vital information rarely found in design magazines, such as which tools to use for cleaning, what kinds of paint to apply, what fabrics are best for upholstery, as well as a section on pet safety.

Julia Szabo will be writing the "You and Your Pet" column for Country Living beginning in January '05, the "Pets" column for the Sunday New York Post and wrote the "Truth in Decorating" column for Elle Decor for three years. She is a frequent contributor to House Beautiful, the New York Times Magazine, and Departures. Also a stylist and photographer, she is the co-host of the television show "Sit, Stay, Style" on the Fine Living Network. She shares her home in New York City with six rescued pit bulls and six rescued cats.