Home: The Way We Live Now

Home: The Way We Live Now i— the revolutionary interior design guide for living in small spaces, renovations and rented homes. Interiors expert Kate Watson-Smyth looks beyond the floor plan and shows how to use the space you have to revolutionize the way you live, whether you own or rent.

A unique and innovative split-format page design allows you to mix and match ideas and plans for working from home, making the most of small spaces and finding temporary solutions in a rented space. By choosing from over 250 practical solutions, you will be able to make your rooms multi-purpose and get the most out of your home, at every stage of your life.

The three key elements to the way we live now — the rising rental market, the issue of working from home, and of living in small spaces — are inextricably linked. This book allows you to configure the sections to what you need from your home: temporarily zoning an open-plan kitchen, working in a small bedroom, decorating a tiny rental. By using this book, you will avoid costly mistakes, so you can buy furniture, storage and decorations well and buy once.

Packed with invaluable tips and ingenious space-saving solutions, and accompanied by gorgeous illustrations, Home also includes in-depth advice features from hoteliers, interior designers, bloggers and influencers.

With helpful hints and intelligent knowledge on building regulations, lighting, multi-functional furniture, getting around rental regulations, finding space for office equipment and using decor to improve your mood, Kate explains how to use the space you have to change the way you live, for a happier, more productive home life.

Details:

• Hardcover
• 144 pages
• 8.11 x 0.35 x 11.85 inches
  
  

Kate Watson-Smyth is an award-winning journalist who has written extensively on interiors and design. Her home has been featured in the The Wall Street Journal, la Republica, Elle Decoration, Living etc., and Remodelista. Kate’s acclaimed website, madaboutthehouse.com, founded in 2012, is officially the UK’s No. 1 interiors blog. The Great Indoors — which she co-hosts with Sophie Robinson — is the nation’s most popular interiors podcast.