Home Chic: Decorating with Style

by India Mahdavi, Soline Delos

Internationally renowned interior designer India Mahdavi’s indispensable style guide is bursting with personal tips on how to transform every room in your home with flair. Your home reflects your personality, so it’s important to accent the best features! Just like fashion, it’s all about style. Interior design icon India Mahdavi has solutions for every home’s shortcomings, from low ceilings to noisy neighbors. Her tips make it all seem easy: open up the space by removing unnecessary doors, create perspectives by placing something beautiful at eye level, balance horizontal and vertical proportions, and avoid cookie-cutter style throughout the home. Her signature interiors incorporate bold accents of color, texture, and pattern. With pointers that include faux pas to avoid, dos and don’ts, classic versus luxury detail, ingenious storage ideas, time-saving tips, and an annotated address book for sourcing the best design items, this household bible will equip you with all you need to transform your home room by room. Whether you’re moving into a new space or rejuvenating an old one, Home overflows with advice and inspiration shared in a light tone with idea-packed illustrations. The handsome cloth-bound volume features a ribbon page marker, original Mahdavi-print endpapers, and watercolor paper.

Genres: Interior Design, Nonfiction, Design

208 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2013

Reviews

[RH Walters · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading a profile on Mahdavi in the New Yorker woke up my eyes, and reading her book made me rearrange the whole house. Space is important -- we live here.

[Julia H. · Rating 1 out of 5]

Mało przydatnych wskazówek, bardziej reklama tego, co osiągnęła projektantka - autorka książki. Rady niezbyt uniwersalne, wnętrza przedstawione w książce maksymalnie ekstrawagancko i często w ogóle niepraktycznie urządzone.

[Melanie Rippon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as detailed as some interior design guides but some great photos plus practical advice. Also an international listing of design stores & galleries, as well as a directory of blogs, databases & online shops.

[Roben · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed the photos and was awakened to some new ways of looking at rooms.