The Home Style Handbook

by Lucy Gough

A step-by-step, room-by-room, moodboard-by-moodboard guide to creating a home that reflects your personal style and the way you want to live - from acclaimed Australian-born stylist and online interiors tutor, Lucy Gough.

We all want to live in a home that reflects our personalities, our experiences, our life's journey. But if we are not a professional decorator or stylist, where do we start?

In this inspirational and helpful handbook, interiors stylist and tutor Lucy Gough will teach you how to understand your true style and how to implement it in how you decorate your living space. Your dream home needn't be a spacious, architecturally designed building - it could be small or rented. With this book you'll discover what YOU love and what makes YOU happy so you can surround yourself with the colors, furniture, furnishings and finishing touches that inspire you. For Lucy, every good room scheme starts with a moodboard - she explains how to create your own and features them throughout the book to explore the elements within a series of home case studies and why they work.

The book
- How to translate magazine imagery into your home
- How to create impact with art, plants and accessories
- How to style your kitchen, living room, bathroom, home office and hallway
- Key inspirational case studies
 

Genres: Nonfiction, Interior Design

224 pages, Hardcover

Published October 10, 2023

Reviews

[Mary Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great advice in this book for beginners as well as more experienced decorators. For fans of British decor styles and people,who have a more traditional aesthetic. Very realistic and achievable design.

[Maya Vansuch Wurth · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice book! Some very attractive photos and a few tips I really liked, like using a cohesive color palette throughout your home. I liked the way the author demonstrated building a physical mood board as well. Nothing groundbreaking, but very enjoyable!

[Lily Mulholland · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a beautiful coffee table book to add to the objets d’art you’ll find yourself accumulating after reading it.

[FlyingBulgarian Svetli H. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun and informative. Learnt a lot about mood boards but more examples would have been helpful. Some of the text is a bit fluffy in nature but overall accessible to beginners in home styling I’d say.

[Bram Oegema · Rating 1 out of 5]

Never read a book in which the author basically only talked about herself. Almost ever chapter starts with the word „I“ in the first sentence.

[Trish · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of details in this book.