Personal Space: Creating A Home That Expresses Your Individuality

by Kate Worsley

When it comes to decorating, are you a Maverick? Or, are you more the Sensual type? Wild or Urban, Pure or Easy? By exploring your natural preferences for light, color, shape, and pattern, exercises help you determine under which of these six categories you fall, and start you on your way to creating exquisite interiors that express exactly who you are. Once you have identified your personal style, you can divine design inspiration from page upon page of lavish, full-color photographs of interiors and furnishings, presented room-by-room and category by category. Alongside these, detail shots concentrate on mood, texture, light and light, and more, providing ideas for finishing touches and display. Whether you want to achieve an entire look from scratch or just tighten up your current decorating style, this volume gives you the tools and the confidence to create an environment you feel at home in.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2000

About the author

Kate Worsley’s latest novel FOXASH, out now in paperback and audiobook, is a Times pick of the month and winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Fiction. Her first novel, SHE RISES, won the HWA Debut Crown for Historical Fiction and was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Prize in the US. She was born in Lancashire, and now lives on the Essex coast in the UK.

Reviews

[Michael Heath-Caldwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book on interior decor.

[Em · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh, it's okay.

If you're new to "what do I want my home to be?" thinking and are looking for ideas and inspiration, you might find it here.

The idea that my personal space can be limited to "pure, maverick, wild, sensuous, easy, or urban" is ridiculous. I take a bit of each of these.

Newbies or those who are confused about "what's my style?" might find the first one-third of the book, which consists of exercises, to be helpful in terms of space, light, color, texture, etc.