This is Home: The Art of Simple Living

Product Description

This is Home is a back-to-basics guide on how to create authentic wholehearted interiors. It's about living simply – finding the essence of what makes you happy at home and creating spaces that reflect your needs and style. Filled with clever ideas and creative spaces it shows that you don't need a huge budget to create a beautiful home. This is Home provides examples and case studies of places with a global and timeless feel that haven't always been renovated in the traditional sense but are true homes.

Featuring eight case studies from Australia, the US and Europe, and nearly 200 color photographs, This is Home will inspire you with beautiful, authentic places you want to be – today.

Chapters include:
The big picture: how to determine your decorating personality, and what's authentic for you.
Starting over: let go of the past and create a home for the person you are today, with a focus on decision-making and the art of editing.
Living for now: Work out a budget for your time and money using your values as a guide. Where you can spend and save when it comes to creating lasting interiors.
The Art of ingenuity: Think creatively, not expensively, when it comes to making changes at home. Going beyond the usual suspects can help you to create a home that's distinctively yours.
The poetry of space: Successful spaces are all about addition and subtraction, positive and negative. How to create balance within a room while reflecting your decorating style.
The feel of a home: Create interiors that make you feel, and have an emotional connection. How to introduce decorative elements that make for authentic interiors.
Surrounding spaces: Key ideas to consider when creating your place in relation to its environment - from the surrounding landscape to local community.
Maintaining the focus: Ways to evolve what's important for you and keep focussed on your aesthetic and lifestyle.
Happy renewal: How to keep your home fresh without exhausting or expensive overhauls.
Rest and revive: How our homes can function as a place to rest our bodies, rejoice in our relationships and restore our values.

Features

• Binding : Hardcover
• Pages : 240
• Publisher : Hardie Grant Books

Top Reviews

Really lovely, just one suggestion for next book
by Linsey (4 out of 5 stars)
July 30, 2019

This is a beautiful book- in terms of concept, imagery and text. The materials are also nice, as the book is well made. My only wish is that the book featured some homeowners that are nonwhite. It would have been great to get a diversity of approaches to simple living not only in terms of country and family structure, but also race/ethnicity. Perhaps the author could consider this for the next iteration
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A contradiction in terms
by Eden (3 out of 5 stars)
June 29, 2019

To me, this book has a dual character. The photographs of people who live in simply beautiful homes are interesting and inspiring to look at. The author's writing, however, earnest and sincere as it is meant, is full of cliches and platitudes about how to be happy in a home and that it's happiness that makes a home. The examples in the book are chosen because the people who live in these homes are beautiful, original and talented at making their homes inviting and shall I say, artistic? That the text then goes on to talk about how to prioritize when to buy furniture or make improvements according to one's financial status or place in one's career seems out of place alongside the sophistication of the visual portraits included in the book. In a way, the text sounds like a self-help guide with quotes sprinkled in from famous people like Lin Yutang. It seems to me that the creative and happy people portrayed in the book don't really need that kind of advice and that the sophisticated simplicity of their homes appear contradictory to the kind of primer the author provides.
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Absolutely Stunning
by ZaDeeDee (5 out of 5 stars)
August 11, 2018

Filled with wonderful suggestions and stunning spaces
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I love this book!
by Purple Rain (5 out of 5 stars)
March 9, 2019

This is a beautiful quality book and very inspiring! It's so much more than just the inspiring and beautiful photos. I read it cover to cover and was sad to be finished.
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Inspiring and Lovely
by Book Gypsy (5 out of 5 stars)
July 7, 2019

I have an addiction for books on interior design that are soulful and get to the heart of simplicity and beauty. This book is a wonderful experience - just to sit and look through. I have it by my couch, so I can look at it often and feel inspired by the images.
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It's a great minimalist inspo book
by Shauna (5 out of 5 stars)
January 9, 2019

Love it! Simple art and meaningful information.
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Intimate and lovely
by Wednesday (5 out of 5 stars)
May 15, 2019

Lovely book with tons of small inspirations- things you can actually make/realize yourself. I don't read books like this (just too cliche) but pictures shows a lot of great details.
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Five Stars
by Minneapolis Brad (5 out of 5 stars)
June 9, 2018

Excellent book. Would recommend.
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Perfect
by Bea amelunke (5 out of 5 stars)
October 28, 2019

A new favorite coffee table book.
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Lovely book
by Jeralin McPherson (5 out of 5 stars)
July 23, 2019

Took my time to ready this book. The pictures are absolutely gorgeous. It was inspiring to me.

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