Color Is Home: A Brave Guide to Designing Classic Interiors

Interior designer Charlotte Coote mixes color, fabric, and originality in this bold guide to creating classic interiors. 

The way interior designer Charlotte Coote mixes colors, textures, and patterns, reveals a whole new way of approaching design.

In this gorgeous, inspirational, and practical book, Coote guides readers through the process of designing a space, from creating the original design brief through to the finished room. Using her five principles of design―timelessness, authenticity, lifestyle, scale, and quality―Coote shows how to balance comfort and style, light and shadow, color and neutrals, old and new.

This volume showcases Coote's bold and decisive style, with easy-to-follow tips and ideas for wall colors, kitchen finishes, furniture, and fabrics to achieve rich and layered interiors. Color Is Home is an essential stylebook for creating a home that will stand the test of time. 

Illustrated in color throughout

Charlotte Coote is one of Australia’s most sought-after interior designers with a flair for classic contemporary designs that transcend fleeting trends and exude unmistakable elegance. With close to twenty years’ experience in the industry, Charlotte’s career has seen her interior design commissions in Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States. As the founder and head designer at Coote & Co., she has worked on numerous projects from boutique hotels to castles and private residences. Coote’s first book, Color is Home: A Brave Guide to Designing Classic Interiors was published by Thames & Hudson in 2022.