Product Description

Highlights 21 homes of product designers, interior designers, photostylists, and shopkeepers.

This inspirational book is filled with the newest ideas and pro tips to create personal style using color, furniture, accessories, and fabrics.

Ideas for styles, from clean contemporary to relaxed Tuscan and more.

Shows quick ways to get ready for guests plus 12 weekend ideas to freshen homes.

Includes source lists to get "the look" with must-have fabrics, antiques, and accessories.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #680252 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 216 pages

Customer Reviews

Read it in a day
I loved this book so much that I read it in a day. It profiles entrepreneurs and takes you inside their homes and explains their different styles, techniques and inspirations. Those profliled range from product designers to shopkeepers, photo stylists and interior designers. Great source of inspiration and ideas from a variety of perspectives.

settle in for a good read
I am now half way through Trade Secrets and am loving it. It has the perfect balance of photos and text and tons of useful tips for how to replicate the styles you love in the book. As with a fabulous novel, I am taking each section very slowly, savoring the text, studying the details, and trying to figure out how to make everything work for my new house.
The other reviewer is right--it is very much like a magazine, rather than an interior design text book, and this is a good thing. It's an entree into the homes of some of the most creatively minded people out there. What's best is that a lot of different styles are represented, it's not all the starkly metal modern of Metropolitan Home or the flouncy romantic cottage style of Country Living. If you're bored w/ the Pottery Barn cookie-cutter look and are after fresh ideas, look no further!

This is the best decorating book I've bought
Of the three decorating books I've bought this year, this one is the very best. It is stylish, "newsy" (if that's a word), current, packed with ideas, and wide ranging in the looks and ideas it contains. It's also a lot of fun. I don't know when I have seen a decorating book that's as fresh, current, and sort of magaziney as this. It's topical and trendy but I know I'll be using it as inspiration for a long time.