| Marisa Bartolucci takes
readers inside 33 small homes from cities across the U.S. to reveal how
a strong sense of style is the most effective tool for transforming an
ordinary small home into a smart yet functional living.
Without hiring a professional, design
know-how or unlimited resources, Marisa shows how to decorate a dorm room,
an apartment, a rented studio, or a small cottage to meet the needs of
real people with real budgets by combining kicky ideas with basic design
principles to bring inspiration to get you off the sofa and make it happen.
Modern and contemporary style is
especially handy for small homes or rented homes as the style focuses on
sleek, cool and organic shapes and colors. Do it yourself walls and floors
with one color is undemanding to manage. Furniture and home decor are functional
and in space saving forms. Adding your electronic lifestyle of computers
and home entertainment system, even one at a time, would contributes extra
modern features to improve or emphasize the quality of living design like
a breeze. As the style is not very serious one or two shabby chic mismatches
can be an excuse of personal style or mischief.
Organized by square footage, styles,
plans, layouts, and schemes, featured small home owners and renters allow
us to view their personal spaces as they are and their small home decorating
and design are easy to translate into your own. It's reassuring just to
know that other people in the universe reside in small homes of less than
1000sf, e.g. a 100-sf dorm room, 2 couples with babies living in less than
500 sf. Not cute or fussy, but crisp and clean and well laid out.
This is a great book for the person
looking to change their environment as well as the person who is about
to search for a small home to rent or buy. When you are looking at places
you can be asking yourself if what you liked in the book could be used
in the new place. You may also be aware of small home problems you had
not even considered, saving knocking out walls and raising ceilings.
Decorating a small home
by Marisa Bartolucci
Small home titles
The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas
For Living Well In Limited Space
The New American Dream : Living
Well in Small Homes
Small Log Homes: Storybook Plans
and Advice
New Small Homes
Small Apartments
Decorating Small Homes
Small Urban Homes
Small Spaces: Stylish Ideas for
Making More of Less in the Home |
