Decorate: 1,000 Design Ideas for Every Room in Your Home Hardcover – April 20, 2011

It's obvious that this original and vibrant book was designed with great craft and care to be useful to the apartment dweller or home-owner who is looking for direction on where to begin in decorating their space. The following styles are highlighted: simple, natural, modern, flea-market, colorful, floral, eclectic and modern glamour style. There are helpful guidelines in how to create each of these styles in a home. In "Attention to Detail" you'll see accessorizing tips for mirrors, lighting, pillows, flowers and table settings.The styles represented are fresh and vibrant; this book should appeal to folks who like modern, vintage, flea-market, DIY, urban, retro, cottage, rural, industrial, bohemian, global, mid-century, heirloom, Apartment Therapy, eclectic and any variation on these themes. These are real homes in which you can easily imagine folks living. It is fun to see designers Jonathan Adler & Simon Doonan's home and Vicente Wolf's loft in the mix. If you've ever wondered how one-room living and sleeping would be, Liz Bauer's NYC studio apartment in this book (and Billy Baldwin's from another book) are convincing that you can have a bed in your living room and still look stylish! Loved her space.This book exceeded my expectations--didn't really know what to expect regarding how 1000 quality design ideas would fit in one book--and think it will be especially valuable to those who want their home to express them and their personal vision of a lively, lovable and livable space.

As an artist I own many books on home decor. Most of them I flip through looking for a photograph that is useful for a current project, butDECORATE is filled with soulful, creative interiors. EVERY page has something I can use, something I can incorporate, an idea that I can expand on.This is a decorating book that I have actually READ cover to cover! It is not just filled with gorgeous inspirational photographs, but there are fabulous quotes from designers, useful room layouts, palette ideas, and tons of style ideas!The rooms in DECORATE are not stiff and matchy matchy, or locked into a defined 'style'. This book gives room for all styles. The rooms in DECORATE look clean, crisp and purposeful. You can see the human touch behind the design. I LOVE the chalkboard wall on page 42 and the surprising purple shade on page 38, and the colorfully painted furniture on pages 118-119!Oh, and I LOVE the fun busy flowered wallpaper and raspberry kitchen on page 124, if for nothing else than it is luscious eye candy!Every page has a take-away, something wonderful that you can apply to your own home or your own project. This will be a wonderful book to show my clients. And I am already using it to inspire my own home!These interiors have a feeling of being created over time. Designing a room over time, incorporating old and new, mixing in some quirky or surprising accessories, really layering the design is what sets this book apart.I have been a big fan of Decor8, Holly's blog, and this book lives up to those high standards. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

I have known decor8 (Holly Becker's inspirational blog) for quite a long time and always go back to it when I'm at a loss for creative ideas both for my home and my job (I am a wedding/events planner and adv specialist). I was looking forward to this book very much and I have to say it didn't disappoint me a bit.I found new stuff, great tips and a visually soothing experience. The pictures are lovely and they provide great back-up to the informative content. Texts are very well written and effient, long enough to inspire but not too in-depth.Buy this book if you are about to buy your own place, if you want to stick to rental but are looking for ways to personalize the spaces you live in.But if you already have a house and/or have just finished decorating it, buy this book to treat yourself to some serious interior eye candy. To me, it's the equivalent of an ice-cream tub. Very very well done to Holly and her team.

I don't know if its this bad in the print edition, but the kindle edition has typo after typo. Some pages have two in one page. Most pages of text have at least one typo.This book is a good source for ideas. I find most decorating books to assume that the reader is either wealthy or has a lot of space. This book does a decent job of avoiding that, although not perfectly.

I rarely pick up a new interior design book; but when I saw that Holly Becker of decor8 was publishing one, it quickly made it to my must have list - even before the book was available. As with any interior design book, Decorate covers the basics of space planning and furniture positioning. I picked it up because she takes you beyond a perfectly decorated space to a space that represents who you are. Better still, her ideas work for all budgets.If you've ever renovated or refreshed a room only to feel something wasn't quite right, Decorate is for you. Decorate is full of tips for how you can make your space - whether owned or rented - a reflection of you. Holly offers design tricks that I haven't seen in other books. One such trick that Holly recommends is starting with inspiration, gathering clippings and noting what you liked about a particular image, texture, item. The notes allow you to understand what grabbed you. Once you've assembled your inspiration, she suggests creating a mood board for your room and living with it for awhile. With real-world examples it's easy to see how transform what inspires you into your space and not merely a replica of what you see.