Tracy Porter's Home Style: Creative and Livable Decorating Ideas For Everyone

by Tracy Porter

Transform your home with Tracy's signature style and spirited approach to comfortable living. When Tracy Porter founded her company with a $5,000 loan from her parents, she never envisioned that eight years later it would be a $40 million business with products sold at thousands of retail stores. In Tracy Porter's Home Style , Tracy demonstrates how to enliven rooms with old treasures and common objects. Lavishly illustrated, and brimming with inspiration, Tracy's book shows you how to reinvent your home with simple and creative ways to use paint, fabric, rugs, pillows, and even scents. Each chapter contains a multitude of valuable tips and rule-breaking ideas, and the Make & Create Guide for every featured project assures that you can adapt these projects to your own home. Tracy Porter's Home Style will help new and old fans alike create a warm and welcoming home. --Tracy has been featured on Oprah , E! Entertainment's Homes with Style , and in the pages of O Magazine, People, Good Housekeeping , and Victoria .

210 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

About Tracy Porter (by John Porter)
Tracy Porter is effervescent; her energy and passion seemingly limitless. She’s a serial entrepreneur and a serious up-failer, with no formal education to hold her back. She’s a hyper-imaginative, never-quit, hungry-for-explosive-happiness girl with 25+ years in the creative + business trenches. The products she’s designed have sold more than $500 million at retail around the world, at stores from Target and Bed Bath and Beyond to Macy’s, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale's. She’s been featured in various rags, from People to Elle magazine. She’s even been on Oprah for crissakes! Three times! She’s a great wife and business partner, and the best mom to our four boys. Oh, and she plays ringmaster of enough animals to sink an arc. She’s awesome and you’ll learn tons from her!

Reviews

[Kelley]

Her style is a bit over the top and fanciful for my taste. I love the eclectic environment she creates for an old and new, hard and soft look. The tips she gives on living with your treasures are enjoyable and actually doable without breaking the bank.