Making Living Lovely: Free Your Home with Creative Design

by Jordan Cluroe, Russell Whitehead

Making interior design choices can be daunting in a world flooded with trendsetting Instagram posts and Pinterest boards. Luckily, Russell Whitehead and Jordan Cluroe, aka 2LG Studio and leading figures in the design world, specialize in designing homes for clients who know what they love, but struggle to know where to start. Their fresh approach is nothing short of a design revolution: freeing your home with interiors that express your personality and address your needs.


This essential companion will equip you with new ways to see your interiors, giving you the confidence to create a home that helps you live better. In eight chapters, Cluroe and Whitehead show you how to handle original features; use color, pattern, and texture; choose materials; and curate your objects. Focusing on people and how we use our spaces, Making Living Lovely also covers finding your style, cohabiting and design compromises, exploring your creativity, and rediscovering the fun in your interiors.


Interior design is about much more than restyling rooms; it has the power to change your life. This richly illustrated guide will unleash your creativity and build the confidence to style your home in a way that is perfect for you.

Genres: Design, Interior Design, Nonfiction

208 pages, Hardcover

First published April 16, 2020

Reviews

[Alexandria Blaelock · Rating 5 out of 5]

A new (to me) and interesting take on designing your interior; to think more about the function of spaces and the feelings you want to evoke. To consider the flow of your home, and how that affects the feel. Is there a room with one function that’s better suited for another?

[Lisa]

There may be fabulous ideas in this book but I couldn’t finish it because: WHY IS THE PRINT SO SMALL???? The pages are large and the text rarely takes up the full page or even most of a page, so, it is clearly a choice.

[Marilyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was refreshing because the presentation was fresh with good pictures, loads of opinions, little instructions or rules, and good ideas.

[Ruth B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Surprisingly useful!

[Stacy Neier Beran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Making Living Lovely hit the spot that I always seek in design books: feeling inspired. The authors have a very practical approach about their work and the work they want their readers to carry forward into their own worlds. The text read in ways that not only mapped out the physical and visual elements behind masterful interiors; it also proposed curious questions that invited lots of ways to answer. They made me think, extending their design philosophy far beyond the utility & form of space. For example, the section about "Recognizing Your Inner Nemesis" brought out the importance of always asking why. Asking "How do I want to live?" is a question that we'll all ask across contexts. I was surprised to read "The End of Trend" and imagine that could be a controversial topic for many! My biggest wish for this book - if it could be reprinted - is that the font could be bigger! The actual copy was tiny, so knowing how much scale matters in design, the smallness was too squinty for my preference!