How can I best depict how amazingly beautiful this book is? I tried putting it into words for my husband and said, “Reading this book is like taking a warm bath. It’s beautiful, soothing, refreshing, and rejuvenating!”
Yes, it’s a decorating book, but it’s so much more than that! It’s a fresh and exciting take on how to create beauty in your house, while helping you stay authentic, content, and inviting to others.
“It doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful” is the author’s motto. She encourages you to see the beauty in everyday things like lego creations and stacks of homework, a worn sofa and burnt candles, and dogs and food and people on the couch. Perfection is overrated and unachievable. This book helps you to let go of worrying about what other people will think of you using second hand sheets as curtains and encourages you to display and use your pretty things because they were meant to be used.
If the above weren’t enough, the author gives tips for decorating spaces and shares where to score the best finds (i.e. it’s not the furniture store!). Through many pictures, she shows her DIYs and decorations made with everyday objects like plastic spoons, pages from books, treasures found outside, and cardstock paper. She encourages you to take risks, and above all to just start somewhere!
The focus of the book is to help you create a home for your family - one where people can come, relax, be refreshed and inspired, be real, and do things without worrying about spoiling the decor or furniture.
This is a book for anyone who craves making a home - to the perfectionist, the “experts”, or to the kid bride who doesn’t even know where to start. What’s holding you back?
I need to read this one again!
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