The Meghan Method: The Step-by-Step Guide to Decorating Your Home in Your Style

by Meghan Carter

After two years traveling the country searching for the best decorating advice, acclaimed web-video producer and lifestyle journalist, Meghan Carter, condensed her research into an easy, 18-step method. "The Meghan Method" empowers even the most decorating deficient to successfully redecorate their home in their style. 75% of homeowners will tackle redecorating themselves; this book gives them the confidence and know how to create their dream rooms

This book is packed with numerous examples, work sheets, resource lists, checklists and tips. " The Meghan Method" enables readers to become their own decorating experts from discovering their own style to creating a room plan to choosing the perfect colors.

Genres: Nonfiction, Design, Interior Design

396 pages, Hardcover

First published May 28, 2011

Reviews

[Caro · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great step-by-step guide for anybody wanting to design & decorate their home -under any style and budget- . It helps you define what you like and then take it from paper to reality.

I was clueless about home decorating before picking it up but it helped me accomplish more than expected on my first home. It comes with a workbook, so you will need to spend time filling out all the guides.

[Clairette · Rating 5 out of 5]

The decorating approach in this book is really personal, which I thought ideal for helping make a house feel like home. And the approach is this: decorating is about how the room makes you FEEL and how well it functions for your lifestyle.

To create a room with the proper function and emotion, the author provides a strong foundation of essential principles (like contrast, repetition, lines of sight, traffic flow) in a totally non-judgmental way so you can do whatever will work best for your lifestyle. She also walks you through these ridiculous steps that make me wonder how anyone could ever have the patience to follow them. But they're all more or less necessary and even if you don't write down everything, I think at least answering the questions with you gut instinct is important to the approach and will lead to a more thought out plan that will lead to a better end result.

I'll definitely reference this book and use the general approach, there's lots of good stuff in here.

[Patricia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite frankly, I was overwhelmed by the amount of drawings this method calls for. I've always made drawings of the rooms I've decorated and it has always helped---just not so many! I'm very visual, so that may be why. This books will work very well for those who are not as visual, provided they exercise the patience to make those drawings.

The main thing to take away from This book is to have confidence in yourself and in what you like no matter what. Your home is your home to make and so long as you like it and it works, who cares what the experts say. That is very good and very true advice. Things come and go in interior design as much as they do in the fashion world. The best thing to do is figure out what you like and to run with it. If you are comfortable and happy in your home that is all that matters. After all, who wants to be uncomfortable in their own home?

[Heidi · Rating 3 out of 5]

You know, in all my reviews, I kept begging for a design book that was SUPER step-by-step to help me work through a process. This is definitely that book! But as soon as I got it, I felt overwhelmed because of how many meticulous steps she had. I don't doubt at all that this process could get you from point A to point B with few or any regrets - I just had hoped that I could just kind of *feel* what I wanted and go with it. I think this book deserves another go from me, maybe when I feel less overwhelmed about having to decorate an *entire house* - maybe again when I'm only wanting to focus on one small space.

Anyway, I don't want to turn anyone off to this! I want to get the word out! Just explaining that it's definitely going to walk you through every. single. logical step.

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have spent the last 6 months of my life trying to figure out how to pin-point my "style" pouring through website after website, blog after blog, to settle on a something that won't be too trendy and feels authentic to me. I'm in the process of building/designing my own house, but with very limited professional help to make decisions, so this book is perfect. I just found this book at the end of my procees and really wish I had found it months ago as it takes you step by step through the planning phases of design, which cannot be underestimated in importance! I highly, highly recommend this book. And that is coming from someone who has poured through dozens of home decorating books in the recent past. Please, take my advice and rent this book from the library or buy it. You're welcome. ;)

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent home decoration workbook.

[Laura Hess · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked her message and all of the thought she puts into the design process. The method was entirely unrealistic though! Like you have to fill out about 30 sheets for each room, including drawing the whole thing in different elevations to scale on graph paper, including accessories.

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm actually still on page 149 bc I couldn't renew it any more times and had to return it to library. This girl is all about the details and she will make you work to find your perfect decorated space. But I loved it.

[Chrissy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A practical, methodical approach to decorating and remodeling.

[Bree · Rating 1 out of 5]

Notes:
filling out 100 worksheets to accomplish my home's perfect style is just a bit over the top

[Massanutten Regional Library · Rating 3 out of 5]

Katharine, Central patron, July 2016, 3 stars:

Very redundant. This information could have fit in a book half the size.