Veranda Designer Secrets: Expert Lessons from Top Decorators' Own Homes

Get a home decorating masterclass with this interior design coffee table book that takes you inside the personal residences of 40 top designers and architects.

Decorating with what you love is a fail-proof formula for a charismatic home. This intimate look at design professionals's stunning spaces pulls back the curtain on how the world’s top designers and architects live in their own homes. With striking photographs and thoughtful advice about designing with passion and panache, this gorgeous coffee table book guides design enthusiasts to envision the home of their dreams.

Organized by room, each chapter shares designers ideas for creating elegant rooms that showcase your personal style. Inside you’ll find stunning spaces such as:  

• Jane Schwab’s Charlotte loftlike penthouse, which is ideal for entertaining 
• Mia Reay’s Jacobean-style English country house which draws on inspiration from her passion for TK painting 
• Lauren Santo Domingo’s Southampton, New York home which maximizes the use of art, antiques, and books as decorating objects 

Veranda Designer Secrets makes a perfect gift book for home design enthusiasts looking to create and live their best lives in a well-dressed home.

Designers and architects featured throughout the book: Bunny Williams, Caroline Gidiere, Cece Barfield Thompson, Ceara Donnelley, Charlotte Moss, Colette Van Den Thillart, David Jimenez, Emily Satloff, Hundley Hilton, Jane Scott Hodges, Jan Showers, Jeffry Weisman, John Oetgen, Ken Pursley, Laura Kirar, Mary Graham, Michael DePerno, Palmer Weiss, Paul Bates, Raul Cabra, Renvy Graves Pittman, Sue Jones, Thomas O'Brien-Dan Fink, and William Eubanks.

Susan Hall Mahon is a lifestyle journalist and editor covering home, garden, food, health, and travel. She got her start at Southern Living magazine after graduating with a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has held top editorial roles at Allrecipes.com, Coastal Living, Myrecipes.com, and Health magazine. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama, where she loves to hike and play outside with her husband, two young daughters, and senior citizen hound dog. 

Steele Thomas Marcoux is the editor of Veranda and a veteran of the design publishing industry, having served in senior editorial roles at Country Living, Coastal Living, and Southern Living. She serves on the board of directors for the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, where she lives with her husband, two sons, and dog.

VERANDA epitomizes the very best in living well. The magazine started in Birmingham, AL and invites a community of highly engaged tastemakers to celebrate the very best in gracious living and showcases stunning homes from around the country and the world.