Downsizing Your Home with Style: Living Well in a Smaller Space

No matter your reason for downsizing--whether you are moving from the suburbs to the city, or you are trading the larger family home for a smaller, more manageable one, or perhaps you are just looking to simplify life--the transition can be a challenge. When you're moving a lifetime's accumulation of belongings from a larger home into a jewel box, the task can seem overwhelming--and so can your emotions. How do you decide what to pack and what to part with? Where will you put the contents of your attic, basement, and/or garage? What if the ceilings are lower, the windows are smaller, or your living room rug would fill the entire space? How can you use the stuff you've got so that it functions well and looks right?

Downsizing Your Home with Style answers all of these questions and more. A professional decorator in New York City for over thirty years, Lauri Ward is an expert in making small spaces both elegant and functional. From the initial evaluation of your new home to one year after you have settled in, she takes you through every step with detailed tips, lists of good buys, tricks of the trade, photographs, and anecdotal examples, so that achieving spectacular results is simple and affordable.

Learn How To:

• Create more storage
• Make your stuff look smaller and your space look bigger
• Update and modernize your favorite old pieces
• Multipurpose your rooms and furniture
• Find a new home for the stuff you no longer need

Having less room doesn't mean that your home can't be even more stylish. Downsizing Your Home with Style shows you how to reduce what you have to the best and most loved, so that your new space can be even more special. After all, downsizing isn't about restrictions and sacrifice. It's about living more simply and calmly; it's about leading a richer life by having less.

Lauri Ward, founder of Use-What-You-Have^® Interiors, Inc. and cofounder of the Interior Refiners Network®, revolutionized the design business with her idea that you can use items that you already own as the foundation for an instantly updated, stylish look for your home. Ward appears frequently on such programs as Oprah, Today, ABC-TV News, CBS Evening News, and shows on HGTV. She is a contributing home design expert for iVillage.com and the author of the bestselling books Use What You Have^® Decorating, Trade Secrets from Use What You Have^® Decorating, and Home Therapy: Fast, Easy, Affordable Makeovers.