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Home Swell Home
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 747
EAN: 9780743442770
ISBN: 0743442776
Label: Atria
Manufacturer: Atria
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: August 01, 2002
Publisher: Atria
Studio: Atria
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Editorial Review: Sex and the City meets Martha Stewart in this savvy and eclectic interior-design manifesto for high-flying chicks with nesting fantasies from the authors of the bestselling Swell: A Girl's Guide to the Good Life.
In their first breakthrough style manual, fashion designer Cynthia Rowley and former New York Times Sunday Styles editor Ilene Rosenzweig showed girls-on-the-go how to navigate the world with a little swagger and a lot of grace. Now they're taking the Swell aesthetic home with this inspiring guide to creating the ultimate dream pad. With more of the friendly tone and wry wit that lit up their first book, they introduce the idea of haute décor: How to make dressing up your home as exciting and accessible as buying a new wardrobe: Making it sexy. Trying new looks. Breaking rules. Mixing retro with modern. Changing with the seasons and your moods.
Offering a blueprint for the entire creative process, the two best friends and coauthors take you from inspiration to practical execution. Tour the swell playhouse room by room and see how design daydreams inspired by movies, a Palm Springs vacation, a painting, a favorite dress, or your own personal nostalgia (for the Brady Bunch living room) can become reality.
Full of the authors' own anecdotes and wisdom from a pantheon of swell style heroes, Home Swell Home has household hints, tips, and bits of history on everything you wish you'd known but never would have thought to ask. Some of the tour highlights ahead:
The sixty-minute makeover for when
romantic company's coming
A recipe for a four-star dining room
(hint: logo-print slip covers)
Furniture EMS to resuscitate
doomed hand-me-downs
Turning the underused kitchen
into a day spa
Wiring "moonlight" into your trees
Create the ultimate sitcom screening room
Three new uses for your coffee table
"Paint" the walls with colored
fluorescent lights
Get real paint out of your hair!
Swinging from uptown decadence to downtown chic, Home Swell Home demystifies design, sweeps away snobbery, and shows how any house or apartment can be a place for high-style adventures. So come on in!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Not as inspirational as their other books
I have owned and read other books by these authors and come from an interior design background. I feel there are other books out there - such as Christopher Lowell's books that are much more inspirational as far as decorating goes. I think these Ladies best stick with what they do best - Party Planning....
Rating:  - A silly Book
A silly book. Thought it would really have something to do with design of a certain kind - not silly and useless advise. Definitely should be in the category of "13 or under" - a waste of money!
Rating:  - Gee, I really liked it.
I don't get the animosity everyone expresses in these reviews -- come on, like you didn't know Cynthia Rowley wrote this? It's tongue in cheek. It's supposed to affect the way you approach things -- not be taken literally. Alter your outlook a little. Tracy Porter threw a party in her farm's silo -- I'll bet all of you just loved that to bits. But which ones of you are going to DO it? Sheesh. I really got a kick out of this book. Don't take it so seriously.
Rating: - SUPER!
I NEVER READ THIS WHOLE BOOK CAUSE IT WAS SOO BAD! DO NOT BUY IT, PLEEAASSEE DON'T, IT'S JUST A WASTE OF MONEY!
Rating: - Is this for real???
This book was a disappointment. There is a small handful of good ideas (ie. using frayed denim as a bedskirt, paintng one wall a bright color and the rest of the walls white, hanging hooks on the bedroom wall to hang your outfit for the next day, etc.). However, the remaining totally absurd ideas, the constant suggestions of having a bar/minibar throughout various rooms of the house, the abuse to books (nevermind perhaps reading the books and enrichening oneself), and the flippant suggestions to ... Read More
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