Free Style
About This Book
Most people are told to follow design rules: match your furniture, pick a palette, finish one room before starting the next. Liz Kamarul, a designer and artist, argues that none of that is what makes a home feel like yours. In Free Style, she shows how to build a space around your own taste, without tearing anything out or starting from scratch. Her method starts with three plain questions rather than a checklist. What do you already love? Look at the colors, textures and features you keep returning to, and find ways to give them more room. What is the one thing you really can't stand? Often the biggest annoyance can be turned into a feature, and things you can't avoid, such as fixtures you inherited or tangled cords trailing from electronics, can become deliberate, eye-catching details instead of eyesores. And what do you already own? Good design doesn't need a big budget, and Kamarul offers ideas for giving old pieces new purpose and building a look around what is already in the room. The book is filled with photographs of real homes where these ideas are in use. They encourage you to experiment, get things wrong, use materials in unexpected ways and work with what's around you. Whether you rent or own, are redoing a whole house or just one corner on a small budget, Free Style is a guide to making a home that is personal to you and a pleasure to live in.
ISBN: 9798217033713
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