Good intro to home decorating - but perhaps one for the girls

this design book rocks! | Domino: The Book of Decorating: A Room-by-Room Guide to Creating a Home That Makes You Happy | Deborah Needleman, Sara Ruffin Costello, ...

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	• Domino: The Book of Decorating: A Room-by-Room Guide to Creating a Home That Makes You Happy Deborah Needleman, Sara Ruffin Costello, ... Simon & Schuster, 2008 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 64 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I will order another books

All about the order has been allrigth, the book, shipping cost and delivery time. I'm really satisfied.

Good intro to home decorating - but perhaps one for the girls

I have a semi-professional interest in design and a very large collection of interior design books, but my husband has never looked through any of them with anything but cursory interest...until he saw this one. "It's quite good this", he said, which is high praise indeed from a Yorkshireman.

The Domino book is unusual because it features homes with normal (ie small) domestic proportions, is full of images that include unremarkable furniture from multiple periods (ie how real people live, with a mixture of scavenged, inherited and bought bits and pieces, not an array of expensive "design classics"), and solves practical problems (a baby's bedroom that doesn't look like Toys R Us; what to do if your dining table is not to your taste but too good to give away).

As another reviewer has mentioned, the book has a great double page spread in each section which uses key images to help you define your style, so you can choose furniture and fittings accordingly.

Finally, because the 1930s and 1940s were the golden age of American building, there are also some excellent ideas for kitchens and bathrooms of that period. No UK designer seems remotely interested in the humble interwar semi, and so there is a real lack of styling information for people wanting to avoid wholesale modernisation - amazingly, this US import could be just the job to help fill the gap.

I have taken one star off because the featured interiors do favour a very distinctive style, loosely summarised as "colourful/eclectic/timeless" - this is very much my own taste, but may be a little too hokey and feminine for some readers.

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this design book rocks!

i can't say enough great things about this book. great as a reference guide and fabulous inspiring photos. so sad the domino mag is no longer as i would love a series of these books. really one of my favorite design books (and i have quite a few).

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Lots of pictures and decorating ideas

I actually got this book and passed it along to my daughter. This book has great decorating ideas. My daughter has been pouring over the book ever since I gave it to her. She is sad that Domino Magazine is not longer being published.

College Student Who Cannot Wait to Put This Book To Use

This book is incredible! There is a guide on every type of furniture, paint colors, different styles, and just about everything design-related you can think of. There are so many different styles represented and many rooms that show a blend of different styles to give the reader a good vision of what goes together, why, and what does not. My favorite part of this book is the little glimpse into a certain room which includes that the inspiration was, what pieces the person already had and wanted to use, and then what they bought to add and why. I am only in college right now, but I dream all the time of my first place when I can actually own my own place instead of renting. This book will come in very handy when that day comes, but until then I love looking at it and marking pages to add to my inspiration folder!

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Domino: The Book of Decorating cracks the code to creating a beautiful home, bringing together inspiring rooms, how-to advice and insiders' secrets from today's premier tastemakers in an indispensable style manual. The editors take readers room by room, tapping the best ideas from domino magazine and culling insights from their own experiences. With an eye to making design accessible and exciting, this book demystifies the decorating process and provides the tools for making spaces that are personal, functional and fabulous.