My Bedroom is an Office

& Other Interior Design Dilemmas

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Pub Date 4 Mar 2019 | Archive Date 8 May 2020

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Description

I wish I had this book when I was starting my interior design odyssey.  It includes everything you need to make an amateur decorator look like a pro, and your living space look like a dream.” – Jonathan Adler

Interior design stylist and expert Joanna Thornhill's new book will guide you through an array of design dilemmas, from minor tweaks to bigger projects.

Just moved into your new home? No idea where to start or what to do? Landlord won't let you paint your walls? Hate your sofa but can't afford a new one? Wondering if you can paint your horrible plastic chairs? Joanna Thornhill has the answers to all of your questions, even if you've never attempted DIY before.

Packed with inspirational and practical advice for both homeowners and renters, My Bedroom is an Office will help you to finesse your interiors and achieve a stylish home to be proud of!

I wish I had this book when I was starting my interior design odyssey.  It includes everything you need to make an amateur decorator look like a pro, and your living space look like a dream.” –...


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Advance Praise

"From turning a cramped kitchen into an open-plan haven to creating a boutique bathroom for decadent downtime, Joanna Thornhill’s new book, My Bedroom Is an Office, sets out to solve your design difficulties." - The Sunday Times Home

“I wish I had this book when I was starting my interior design odyssey.  It includes everything you need to make an amateur decorator look like a pro, and your living space look like a dream.” – Jonathan Adler 

"From turning a cramped kitchen into an open-plan haven to creating a boutique bathroom for decadent downtime, Joanna Thornhill’s new book, My Bedroom Is an Office, sets out to solve your design...



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Featured Reviews

This book contains very good design advice in a concise format that's easy to read and look at. The author used their own knowledge of design in the arrangement of the book, which made it, not only esthetically pleasing but made it really easy to refer back to later and find the elements you'd like to incorporate into your own design.

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This is an amazing interior design book. It tackles many of the most frequent design questions. My favourite example was about how to paint walls white and how your location can affect what undertones you need in your white. This is the perfect book for anyone looking to decorate your first home or give your current home a bit of a refresh. I loved this book.

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A beautifully illustrated and inspiring interior design book for ordinary people. I liked the question and answer format and the way he author tackled common problems. Even the area of designing and working on a rental property were tackled. I loved the crisp, minimalist style which made the pictures so appealing. A great book, thank you.

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I've got my copy and I said lets see what is inside and when I started reading all those advices and examples, I had to finish it. It is a book that is perfect for everyone who wants to redecorate and who is moving to a new home. I even started to plan a new look of my home just because I got great ideas from here.

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This British book is full of practical advice for both renters and homeowners on all kinds of decorating questions. The majority of the book is devoted to two-page spreads of a question and answer. The left page has the question and a very practical answer. Many of these solutions are ones anyone can implement. The right page has inspiring photos that illustrate solutions to the question.

Spaced throughout the book are two-page more information articles. These can contain things such as information about colors or what should be in a home toolkit.

Except for the British terms that might be confusing to some North American readers, this book ia very useful.

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A lovely, well-presented and informative guide to making your home look beautiful! I loved it. The photos are stunning and the tips are great. I've just moved into my first flat so this book has been very useful in helping me to feel more confident about decorating, thank you!

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As a visual learner, I found this book to preference a certain style. I felt all the photos showed a modern minimalist with hints of styles from the 60's and 70's. That said, I really thought the author did a wonderful job creating a Q & A on all the pages, answering questions that many new home owners or renters would have. So even though the photos did not portray a variety of design styles, the suggestions to each proposed question helped the reader with ideas on what to do.

There are several pages of different resources for different things needed in a home. I thought this added a practical aspect, making the book a guide to be used on an ongoing basis.

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A lovely guide to making your house a home .A guide to decorating to surrounding yourself with things you love.Inspiring beautiful photography would make a great housewarming present.#netgalley #laurence king publishing

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I did not really know what to expect when opening this book. Indeed, would it be another interior design book explaining concepts and not really going into real situations? I was therefore really interested when I saw how this book was organized about real questions and issues about some real examples that you can face in your home. I totally related to some of them and therefore found interesting ways to address these issues.

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I liked the book so much. it was a delightful and interesting read. thanks to the publisher and netgalley for providing the arc.

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This is a very surprising book with such a lot of ideas on updating your small home, whether it is rented or owned, there are many tips and ideas to make it your own. This book covers the basics of home decoration and how to make it more liveable and to your taste with colour, furnishings and layout. It explains how to work with the things you have, and with things that can't be changed, and in no time, you'll have a home that is comfortable and proud to show off.

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WHY do I read these books and torture myself? I wish I was this creative and had the money to do this!!

Honestly I am blown away with the pictures in this book, they're everything I want in a home.

The author addresses a common question, like the title: "My bedroom is an office, how can I make them feel separate?" and "My living room is my kitchen, how can I make them feel separate?" and "I don't have much space, how can I maximize storage?". There are many more questions like this and the author has answered them all brilliantly.

It's a shame with books like these because I don't see many people purchasing them for themselves, they're more purchased for a gift or if it happens to be on sale in a book shop.

I strongly recommend this if you're about to buy a new house, or even if you just want to completely change the one you're already in. If minimalist/aesthetically pleasing homes are your thing, you'll love taking tips from this!

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This is great for people who might need a little advice while working on their home. I love that it has all of the information you need right in one place and I can't wait to purchase a physical copy of the book!

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The title "My bedroom is an office" already gives the hint about the content of this well laid out book. It gives practical and inspirational answers to many common interior decorating questions for tricky areas that are applicable for both new homeowners that start with a blank canvas as for people who want to create a more welcoming atmosphere in their living spaces. And, as a home staging teacher, I can recommend this book as a must-read for sellers and home stagers too because it will provide them with many ideas for issues that so many properties have: Lack of texture, color, and layers to make bland rooms interesting for home buyers.

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This is a book that's easy to understand in terms of interior design and has a question/problem and answer format. It is in general helpful and it points out that it's important to find your own "voice".

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The book is an easy to read guide to designing your interiors, laid out in the form of questions and answers alongside appealing photos. I think I would have preferred if there had been more a structure to the questions, arranging them by room or category, as they seemed (except the final question) to be in random order.

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