Favorite Home Décor I love seeing how people live. Decorating publications are one of my true guilty pleasures and I can easily lose an

I love seeing how people live. Decorating publications are one of my true guilty pleasures and I can easily lose an afternoon dissecting pictures in home decorating books and magazines. Here are a few of my favorite books of the moment.

 

 

 

Domino The Book of Decorating-

(Deborah Needleman, Sara Ruffin Costello and Dara Caponigro)

This was my first decorating book, and a longtime favorite. There aren’t many of us that can remember when Domino Magazine first went to print, and the heartbreak we felt when it was cancelled. Well, the magazine is back, and the book is an excellent anthology of the magazines first years of publication.

 

Elements of Style-

Erin Gates

Decorating with a few recipes thrown in. Like Domino, this book is a well-edited collection of rooms with a purpose. The homes pictured look lived-in and not so perfect. I hate when magazines show homes that are so perfectly styled, real live humans couldn’t possibly live within the space. Gates decorating eye is clean and colorful, I highly recommend this book for people that aren’t sure where to start.

 

Style and Substance: The Best of Elle Décor

Margaret Russell

A collection of rooms that range from the minimal bright white studios, to the dark opulent gilded spaces. This book had large glossy pictures, and inspiring

 

Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People

Hamish Bowles

Beautiful homes of beautiful people, that is all.