The ultimate guide to creating a beautiful home that fits your style and your budget. Find the best ideas and advice for every room in your home, all in one place. Get tips and design coaching on everything from color to space planning from some of the leading designers and architects practicing today Design a chic living room, a hardworking kitchen, or a bedroom sanctuary Discover the latest materials and products that leading home builders are putting to use today Learn innovative ways to be eco-friendly with new "green" materials and techniques

Rich with inspirational photography and design advice, The Sunset Design Guide series brings together a talented panel of today's top design and building professionals. New Cottage Style: A Sunset Design Guide offers an updated take on the well-loved design genre of cottage decorating. New Cottage Style offers not only inspirational photography, but also expert design advice on how readers can create these inspiring looks in their own homes. Helping readers identify new styles and looks to fit their lifestyle, this book guides them to contemporary cottage style whatever their budget may be. New Cottage Style: A Sunset Design Guide includes: Expert tips and advice on helping readers identify new styles and looks to fit both their lifestyle and their budget Guidance on choosing the right mix of materials, fixtures, and furnishings to create a uniquely livable home Beautiful photography and design instruction on a variety of cottages-from seaside cottages to desert bungalows and mountain chalets Room-by-room design inspiration and advice on choosing every element in the room, including flooring and window treatments

The most helpful book ever for home decorators working out color combinations they will love Find the best ideas and advice for every room in your house, all in one place Get tips and color design coaching on everything from bolds to neutrals from some of the leading designers and architects practicing today Design a friendly family room, a hardworking office space, or a bedroom sanctuary Discover the best strategies for making your home a reflection of your personal tastes Learn innovative ways to be eco-friendly with new "green" paints and techniques

This outstanding primer covers every aspect of home decorating--including design, color, pattern, and texture; window treatments, flooring, furnishings, and lighting--and tells how to plan the environment so all these elements work toward a cohesive style. 446 photos.

The options are endless for dressing up a window-blinds, shutters, valances, curtains, draperies, shades. This idea-packed sourcebook presents a hundred ways to give any room fresh style with the right window treatment, along with practical tips and decorating guidelines to define what works best for you.

Designing a home that is healthful, great looking, and responsive to the needs of the planet Arm yourself with information that will help you find the pros who can help you keep your home healthy and safe See through the clutter of conflicting claims about everything from building products to cleaning agents Create a water-wise landscape and learn attractive uses for recycled materials in the garden Find practical, money-saving ideas that make a contribution to environmental quality The options for homeowners building, remodeling, or decorating green have never been more exciting

Kitchens: A Sunset Design Guide is an inspiring reference for ideas to create a well-designed kitchen. This fresh and modern revised edition of the 2008 best-seller includes all the latest in design and materials, along with indispensable remodeling advice from professional kitchen designers. Readers will discover pages full of the advice they need to create a uniquely livable room by adding their own personal touch. Updated photography throughout renders this the ultimate guide to creating a stunning kitchen that fits the reader's home, style, and budget.

From the rising-star designer and author of the hit blog, Elements of Style, a full-color, fully illustrated book packed with honest advice, inspiration, ideas, and lessons learned about designing a home that reflects your personality and style. Elements of Style is a uniquely personal and practical decorating guide that shows how designing a home can be an outlet of personal expression and an exercise in self-discovery. Drawing on her ten years of experience in the interior design industry, Erin combines honest design advice and gorgeous professional photographs and illustrations with personal essays about the lessons she has learned while designing her own home and her own life—the first being: none of our homes or lives is perfect. Like a funny best friend, she reveals the disasters she confronted in her own kitchen renovation, her struggles with anorexia, her epic fight with her husband over a Lucite table, and her secrets for starting a successful blog. Organized by rooms in the house, Elements of Style invites readers into Erin’s own home as well as homes she has designed for clients. Fresh, modern, and colorful, it is brimming glamour and style as well as advice on practical matters from choosing kitchen counter materials to dressing a bed with pillows, picking a sofa, and decorating a nursery without cartoon characters. You’ll also find a charming foreword by Erin’s husband, Andrew, and an extensive Resource and Shopping Guide that provides an indispensable a roadmap for anyone embarking on their first serious home decorating adventure. With Erin’s help, you can finally make your house your home.

Bathrooms: A Sunset Design Guide is an inspiring reference for ideas and advice to create a valued space in the home. Whether readers have a bathroom that needs freshening up or they're planning a total remodel, this book offers all the guidance needed to create a dream bath that fits their home and budget. This updated edition offers a comprehensive look at the elements that help form a cohesive, well-planned bathroom with features and materials that reflect the way readers live. Bathrooms takes the reader from the basics of planning through the major components-tubs, showers, sinks, etc., with detailed information on materials, along with essential remodeling advice from professional bathroom designers, to help readers create a uniquely livable room.