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Do Inhabit: Style your space for a creative and considered life.
Well-being starts at home.
In Do Inhabit, Sue Fan and Danielle Quigley, co-founders of interior design company Wild Habit, share their advice for styling a home full of beauty, tranquility, and warmth—a space that promotes health and happiness. There are sections with simple tips for creating a unified aesthetic, styling with natural elements, and showcasing personal mementos, plus tons of inspiring photos of thoughtfully designed interiors.
• Delivers easy-to-follow advice on how to style a beautiful, inviting, and comfortable home
• Offers inspiration for every type of space – small apartments, multistory houses, or cozy cabins
• Focuses on decorating with beautiful, natural elements
Fans of Do Design, Creative Spaces, and Designology will love this book.
This book is perfect for:
• Millennials
• Interior design fans
• Fans of hygge
In Do Inhabit, Sue Fan and Danielle Quigley, co-founders of interior design company Wild Habit, share their advice for styling a home full of beauty, tranquility, and warmth—a space that promotes health and happiness. There are sections with simple tips for creating a unified aesthetic, styling with natural elements, and showcasing personal mementos, plus tons of inspiring photos of thoughtfully designed interiors.
• Delivers easy-to-follow advice on how to style a beautiful, inviting, and comfortable home
• Offers inspiration for every type of space – small apartments, multistory houses, or cozy cabins
• Focuses on decorating with beautiful, natural elements
Fans of Do Design, Creative Spaces, and Designology will love this book.
This book is perfect for:
• Millennials
• Interior design fans
• Fans of hygge
128 pages, Paperback
Published May 3, 2018
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September 2, 2020
This would be a great introduction to home design for someone who doesn't know much about it, or where to start. As someone who's read home design blogs for years, there wasn't a huge amount of new information.
What I found unique to this book was a section on sensory details (would have loved for it to be longer and more detailed), and the emphasis on styling both for yourself and for hosting. There was also a short segment on styling while you travel, which had never really occurred to me, but I do like to get attractive travel accessories so 🤷 I liked that the book addressed each room in turn, and appreciated their thoughts for each, although a few felt relatively similar.
I was hoping for either deeper digging into the philosophy behind how to decorate your home, or more specific styling instructions. Unfortunately, the information for both felt mostly surface level to me. Even the feature on styling a cheese platter was not much more specific than having at least 3 kinds of cheeses and making sure your board is big enough. There was one segment that had some specific measurements listed for table heights and rug sizes that was very helpful.
Their design philosophy is very nature-oriented, encouraging ever-changing rotations and evolutions of your living space drawing from natural materials, which I liked. I will hazard to be conscientious about harvesting live moss versus fallen materials, depending where you live - here in the PNW our beautiful lush moss can take many, many years to grow back.
I think this book tried to be too many things at once, and didn't quite pull its parts together enough to elevate the brevity of the different focuses. For me, I would have preferred greater depth in one or two areas.
What I found unique to this book was a section on sensory details (would have loved for it to be longer and more detailed), and the emphasis on styling both for yourself and for hosting. There was also a short segment on styling while you travel, which had never really occurred to me, but I do like to get attractive travel accessories so 🤷 I liked that the book addressed each room in turn, and appreciated their thoughts for each, although a few felt relatively similar.
I was hoping for either deeper digging into the philosophy behind how to decorate your home, or more specific styling instructions. Unfortunately, the information for both felt mostly surface level to me. Even the feature on styling a cheese platter was not much more specific than having at least 3 kinds of cheeses and making sure your board is big enough. There was one segment that had some specific measurements listed for table heights and rug sizes that was very helpful.
Their design philosophy is very nature-oriented, encouraging ever-changing rotations and evolutions of your living space drawing from natural materials, which I liked. I will hazard to be conscientious about harvesting live moss versus fallen materials, depending where you live - here in the PNW our beautiful lush moss can take many, many years to grow back.
I think this book tried to be too many things at once, and didn't quite pull its parts together enough to elevate the brevity of the different focuses. For me, I would have preferred greater depth in one or two areas.
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August 11, 2023A treat to read, this little book has given me lots of useful ideas and I look forward to making my space more peaceful and more creative.
March 14, 2022
I liked it a lot. I don't understand readers that already follow blogs covering the content and then give a low rating because the book wasn't a epiphany to them. It is what you can expect from some 100 pages. A start. An overview. Orientation.
Guidelines in brief chapters with pictures summing up was is the point. To me that is what I expected when buying the book. And to me it fulfills my expectations.
Guidelines in brief chapters with pictures summing up was is the point. To me that is what I expected when buying the book. And to me it fulfills my expectations.
January 28, 2023
A cute book with great ideas on the impact of hosting and the incorporation of 'prutsen" - a manner of fiddling around to create detail and finality. I definitely wouldn't recommend this book to an interior designer, but for those wanting to make a home and haven't really any ideas on how to do so, this removes the corporate and luxurious ideas of home, and instead makes it a space that intertwines with nature and other human beings.
March 30, 2019
I thought this was a really nice, light book for my first design themed read.
I was able to move items around and add some free and inexpensive items to make my home office an extension of what's in my mind.
Doing this helped with creativity because there were no distractions and I was able to flow naturally.
I definitely recommend this quick read.
I was able to move items around and add some free and inexpensive items to make my home office an extension of what's in my mind.
Doing this helped with creativity because there were no distractions and I was able to flow naturally.
I definitely recommend this quick read.
March 17, 2019
Kaféläsning för själen från Whitechapel Gallery-butiken. Lite skönt att läsa om "utomhus inne"-inredning med sköna naturmaterial och mjuka textilier. Även lite lifestyle med skogsbad och så. Lånade ut boken samma kväll och kan inte gå tillbaka och redogöra, men känslan är bra när jag tänker på den.
March 24, 2019
A lovely intro to home styling concepts.
February 6, 2022
Read this in a day. Interesting thoughts on styling spaces and how we make a house a home however it's more a surface level insight into this rather than anything with depth
August 22, 2022
a really great introduction to interior design for feeling good! loved it
October 17, 2022
what a beautiful book, such a easy read 📚. Found out i live “prutsen” way of life 🍂🍃
February 24, 2023
A nice checklist of good basic rules. Also a feel-good and an inspiring book. Nothing groundbreaking, but it was worth the time.
September 5, 2023
Loved it! Felt inspired by the author and what they said really resonated with me.
January 11, 2025
“Less noise, more Earth. Less house, more home.”
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