Creating a Beautiful Home Book

In Creating a Beautiful Home, she generously shares her professional secrets in a book that is as inspirational as it is hands-on. Filled with solid information covering every room, it not only encourages the reader to determine and shape a personal aesthetic, but also reveals how to create the rooms that celebrate it. And it shows how to bring the realities of pocketbook and life-style into balance with your dreams and unique spirit. Whether you are starting fresh or freshening up, this book shows how to use inherited, old, and new elements to create an environment that is truly you.

Library Journal

Stoddard, author of Daring To Be Yourself (Doubleday, 1990) and Living a Beautiful Life ( LJ 10/15/86) , is an interior designer and columnist for several well-known magazines. Here she offers ideas aimed at helping those who want to turn their houses into warm, comfortable homes that ``work'' for them. While providing enjoyable reading with good, interesting advice, this book is more a personal philosophy on decorating and lifestyle than a typical ``how-to-do-it'' guide that you would expect to find in the decorating section. The text, complemented by several tinted sketches, is the focal point.-- Barbara Bartos, St. Croix Cty. Lib., Hammond, Wis.