Decorate: 1,000 Design Ideas for Every Room in Your Home

I have known decor8 (Holly Becker's inspirational blog) for quite a long time and always go back to it when I'm at a loss for creative ideas both for my home and my job (I am a wedding/events planner and adv specialist). I was looking forward to this book very much and I have to say it didn't disappoint me a bit.I found new stuff, great tips and a visually soothing experience. The pictures are lovely and they provide great back-up to the informative content. Texts are very well written and effient, long enough to inspire but not too in-depth.Buy this book if you are about to buy your own place, if you want to stick to rental but are looking for ways to personalize the spaces you live in.But if you already have a house and/or have just finished decorating it, buy this book to treat yourself to some serious interior eye candy. To me, it's the equivalent of an ice-cream tub. Very very well done to Holly and her team.

As an artist I own many books on home decor. Most of them I flip through looking for a photograph that is useful for a current project, butDECORATE is filled with soulful, creative interiors. EVERY page has something I can use, something I can incorporate, an idea that I can expand on.This is a decorating book that I have actually READ cover to cover! It is not just filled with gorgeous inspirational photographs, but there are fabulous quotes from designers, useful room layouts, palette ideas, and tons of style ideas!The rooms in DECORATE are not stiff and matchy matchy, or locked into a defined 'style'. This book gives room for all styles. The rooms in DECORATE look clean, crisp and purposeful. You can see the human touch behind the design. I LOVE the chalkboard wall on page 42 and the surprising purple shade on page 38, and the colorfully painted furniture on pages 118-119!Oh, and I LOVE the fun busy flowered wallpaper and raspberry kitchen on page 124, if for nothing else than it is luscious eye candy!Every page has a take-away, something wonderful that you can apply to your own home or your own project. This will be a wonderful book to show my clients. And I am already using it to inspire my own home!These interiors have a feeling of being created over time. Designing a room over time, incorporating old and new, mixing in some quirky or surprising accessories, really layering the design is what sets this book apart.I have been a big fan of Decor8, Holly's blog, and this book lives up to those high standards. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

I really enjoyed this book. I read a lot of design books and magazines each month and this one set a different tone. I think it's a fantastic resource for the home owner who wants to transform their space. The thoughtful layout out helps walk you through the basics of starting a project; planning your space, understanding the architecture of the room, room-by-room examples and ideas, and attention to details. It's filled with creative ideas that make you re-think what you already own, shop the high end stores and plan a trip to the flea market and even look to your own garden for ideas. The directory in the back of the book gives pages of design resources and products to help guide your project and the beautiful photography and inspirational quotes throughout the book were a nice treat.

It's obvious that this original and vibrant book was designed with great craft and care to be useful to the apartment dweller or home-owner who is looking for direction on where to begin in decorating their space. The following styles are highlighted: simple, natural, modern, flea-market, colorful, floral, eclectic and modern glamour style. There are helpful guidelines in how to create each of these styles in a home. In "Attention to Detail" you'll see accessorizing tips for mirrors, lighting, pillows, flowers and table settings.The styles represented are fresh and vibrant; this book should appeal to folks who like modern, vintage, flea-market, DIY, urban, retro, cottage, rural, industrial, bohemian, global, mid-century, heirloom, Apartment Therapy, eclectic and any variation on these themes. These are real homes in which you can easily imagine folks living. It is fun to see designers Jonathan Adler & Simon Doonan's home and Vicente Wolf's loft in the mix. If you've ever wondered how one-room living and sleeping would be, Liz Bauer's NYC studio apartment in this book (and Billy Baldwin's from another book) are convincing that you can have a bed in your living room and still look stylish! Loved her space.This book exceeded my expectations--didn't really know what to expect regarding how 1000 quality design ideas would fit in one book--and think it will be especially valuable to those who want their home to express them and their personal vision of a lively, lovable and livable space.

I enjoyed this book. It has some very pretty pictures and encompasses a broad variety of design/decor styles. Some of the featured houses were really not to my taste but since this is not a style specific book that is fine. I really enjoy the decor8 blog and this is a nice hard copy to have on hand. I definitely did pull some inspiration from the decorate book and I think many different tastes will be able to do so since it is so broad, but if you prefer reading books about your favorite style you may want to look for something more specific.

This book is completely unreadable on my Kindle. I have also tried it on my laptop with the Kindle app using a 25" monitor. It is still largely unreadable but i can see the photos. I have tried every setting possible but there is no way I can read all of the text so I have given up as the photos are mostly of eclectically decorated rooms which are cluttered and multi coloured.I was hoping for something more stylish with soothing colour schemes. I'm not sure I could live in any of the rooms pictured with the contrasting colours and dusting that would be required. No, I am not a minimalist, but looking at this book is sending me that way!

I have had this book since 2011 and have decorated several rooms since then. I bought this book hoping to get ideas on how to decorate rooms and have gone to it several times hoping to get inspiration. Each time I was sadly disappointed.What I was thinking/hoping the book would help with: various colour schemes or advice on how to counteract bad lighting in rooms, e.g. if your room is north facing what to do; use of wallpaper, different paint effects, different styles, e.g. the colours to use and how to decorate if you want a Moroccan style, Scandi/Retro etc. Unfortunately there was none of that.The book seems to recommend placing a load of nik-naks in your room - the rooms seem all very busy with ornaments and white walls, mismatched furniture. No inspiration for me at all. I am about to get rid of the book. Not worth the shelf space.

The content of the book is structured around 4 large sections:1. Space Matters: 'using', 'linking', 'flexible', 'compact'2. Setting Your Style: 'simple', 'natural', 'modern', 'flea', 'colourful', 'floral', 'eclectic', 'modern glamour'3. Room by room: 'kitchens', 'urban kitchen', 'cook's kitchen', 'sociable kitchen', 'living spaces'...4. Attention to Detail: 'finishing touches', 'mirrors', 'lighting', 'cushions', 'flowers', 'table settings'There are many nice quotes by professionals or connoisseurs into interior decoration, most of them rather inspiring, although sometimes they might contradic one another, which is a reflection of the open-endedness of the publication.There are specific case studies of homes discussed in further details.Some pictures/examples are featured twice throughout the book, which might feel a bit cheeky, especially if the book is read from cover to cover.It is actually advisable to read the book from beginning to end, then to come back to it according to your needs or interests at any given moment, as it is also to a great extent a picture book.From this angle, it also puts the book under strain as there is nowadays an unbeatable picture book, ie. Internet.But this book might prove especially useful for beginners in decoration, who need some pointers to start with.

This is a stunningly gorgeous book which is absolutely crammed with design inspiration. It takes you step by step through the process of the interior design process and is packed with very specific suggestions and advice.The first section, "Space Matters" gives pointers to assess the space that you have, how to make the best use of it and ways that you might alter it to make it feel larger or brighter. The next section, "Setting Your Style" talks you through the process of creating a mood board and identifying your own personal style. Maybe you want your home environment to be colourful and uplifting or calm and soothing, perhaps you want it to be about glamour or perhaps a more lived in flea market chic is your style. Regardless, you will find help and inspiration here.The third section talks you through very specific tips and ideas, room by room, including lots of layout sketches and explanations about the design elements that are contributing to the overall feel. I particularly liked the sections on children's rooms and workspaces - divine! Finally, the authors talk about the details that pull a room together and ways to display collections of items. There is also a comprehensive index of suppliers whom the writers recommend for sourcing furniture, rugs, fabrics, vintage homewares and lots of other beautiful items.Quite aside from the wealth of useful information, this is a beautiful book which is a delight to look through (and which will keep you going for a long time). The houses that are featured are from countries as diverse as the US, UK, Australia, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.

A while ago I had decided that I wouldn't purchase more interior design books for one simple reason - they mostly are full of glossy pictures of unttainable homes that you flip through once and then leave on the shelf collecting dust. Not to mention that most other books stick to one particular style - either absolute modernism or some form of shabby chic. I am not a fan of either.The amazing reviews this book has received so far made me change my mind, and I am glad I did buy it. It is a book of ideas of different styles, rooms, layouts and decoration. It encourages you to think about what you like and how you want your home to be - your own.There seems to be something for everyone in the book. However, if you are a fan of absolute cool monochorme modernism, well, perhaps this is not the book for you. On the other hand, if you don't want your living room to look exactly like page 147 of the IKEA catalogue, then this is the book for you. Highly recommended.