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Jeffrey Bilhuber's Design Basics: Expert Solutions for Designing the House of Your Dreams

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Manufacturer: Rizzoli

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From one of the most respected and recognized names in the field of interior design comes an empowering book which demonstrates that great design is accessible to everyone.

A beautiful house is something we all deserve, but it often seems beyond our ability to achieve. With the appealing, accessible message that great interior design is as simple as knowing your own taste, Jeffrey Bilhuber's Design Basics demystifies the decorating process. He covers:

- Space: how to construct an inviting furniture plan
- Scale: how to establish a relationship between your belongings
- Color: how to approach painting with liberation-not trepidation
- Materials and details: how to bring personality to your rooms with unexpected fabrics and finishes
- Living: how to use your house to invite joy into your life

With a list of tried-and-true designer-tested paint colors, and over 100 color photographs, Jeffrey Bilhuber's Design Basics is a sublime and inspiring sourcebook, perfect for the first-time decorator and anyone who has dreamed of hiring her own interior designer.



PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 747
EAN: 9780847825646
ISBN: 0847825647
Label: Rizzoli
Manufacturer: Rizzoli
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2003-11-22
Publisher: Rizzoli
Release Date: 2003-11-22
Studio: Rizzoli


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Jeffrey Bilhuber: Defining Luxury: The Qualities of Life at Home
• Bunny Williams' Point of View: Three Decades of Decorating Elegant and Comfortable Houses
• Elle Decor So Chic: Glamorous Lives, Stylish Spaces (Elle Decor)
• Houses: Inside and Out
• Decorating Master Class


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Great Interior Design Reference Book -
As a practicing designer, I enjoyed comparing Bilhuber's design perspective as it relates to my own practice. I found his methods and design ideologies to be quite compelling. This book is a great read and great reference for thinking out of the box, and abandoning the typical symmetrical interiors that we all fall back on more often than not!

Great for beginners! -
For someone that knows absolutely nothing about putting together a room this book has my highest approval. This is like a crash course in design because he gives you all of the design basics like how to choose color, what kind of furniture to use, how to place your pictures, where to place the furniture, how to make a room look smaller or bigger with all of the above. Plus there's a lot of information on the basics of window treatments, lighting, upholstery. This book was titled very well and I very much recommend it for someone that doesn't have a clue about decorating.

This Book is Worth $40 Because.... -
...it gets you thinking about where to spend your precious decorating dollars. (Bilhuber advises against dumping your budget in kitchens and bathrooms in favor of making bigger statements in foyers and living rooms, for example.) I cook almost all my family's meals so I was EXTREMELY tempted to replace the white appliances in a home I recently purchased with stainless steel ones. I have instead decided to spend that money having the home's interior professionally painted and perhaps purchase a new oriental rug for my living room. When I think about which will make a bigger impact (freshly painted walls and a lovely rug in the first room people see or silver GE Profile appliances versus white ones in the rear of the house) it's pretty much a no brainer. I suppose it's fine to throw a wad of dough at a kitchen remodel if you're filthy rich and can also afford to decorate the rest of your house to the hilt. Bilhuber seems to recognize that that's not the case for the bulk of us, however. The book has also inspired me in smaller ways like decorating with ferns and pinpointing paint colors based on my favorite possessions such as the oat-colored cashmere cardigan I always turn to. Now if I could only decide whether to paint my ceilings Benjamin Moore's Atrium White as he suggests or Swiss Coffee, which is my favorite!

Give It A Browse -
Bilhuber is obviously a talented designer and the lovely rooms in the book demonstrate this. Getting the basic concepts of design across to his readers somehow didn't gel. He includes some information that seems obvious:
*Color is the quickest, most powerful, and most economical way to transform your house.
Add to this, some high-flown statements that really don't help:
*Even the humblest of materials can be ennobled by design.
*Design obstacles are nothing more than opportunities.
I did find helpful ideas like these:
*Look at favorite items (suede gloves, a Chinese bowl) and let that inspire your room treatment (not pages torn from a magazine).
*When you feature something, then repeat that design element (maybe through color) elsewhere in the room, so it isn't isolated.
There is useful information here but maybe too much work to pull it out of the text and picture captions.

Basic Design Concepts Explained -
This book is far more than just a picture book. The instruction in basic design concepts allows you to apply what you learn to novel situations without having to simply copy an idea you see in a picture. I picked up skills from this book, not just ideas.

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