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

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.

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.