A compulsively readable, zanily humorous, yet also completely practical guide to a headache-free home makeover for everyone decorating a new house or updating an old one
More than 7 million readers of Marni Jameson’s weekly home design column have already discovered how Jameson entertains and inspires, while imparting well-researched and personally validated DIY advice. Now, in her first-ever book on home improvement, she offers a compulsively readable, zanily humorous, yet also completely practical guide to a headache-free home makeover for everyone decorating a new house or updating an old one.Jameson has designed, built, and decorated three homes from the ground up. In The House Always Wins, she brings us along as she decorates, furnishes, and landscapes her current home. Though rooted in her own experience, this is no navel-gazing memoir. Rather, Jameson is like a favorite sister who has learned it all the hard way and is now here to prompt and inspire you to figure out your own personal style, make a design plan, and create your (almost) perfect dream home-one step at a time. With Jameson as our guide, we navigate through the seemingly endless maze of choices and decisions every home improver faces: wall color, flooring, cabinetry, window treatments, furniture, bargain hunting, home accessories, rugs, kids’ spaces, special purpose rooms (like the garage and guest, laundry, and mud rooms), landscaping, outdoor living spaces-and that’s just to start. Along the way, Jameson injects insights into the relationships and realities that dog every home improvement project. She also pauses to share hard-won secrets and money-saving tips distilled from her own redecorating experience and from interviews with dozens of renowned home-design experts.For anyone dealing with budgets, time constraints, unreliable contractors, a cheap spouse, kids, and pets-and who would appreciate having someone to commiserate with about the unattainable perfection featured in glossy magazine spreads-The House Always Wins will comfort (it can always be worse), inspire (who knew?!), and be absolutely indispensable.
Marni Jameson is a journalist and syndicated columnist who writes regularly for the Los Angeles Times (for which she has written more than 200 feature stories), Woman’s Day, Family Circle, Fit Pregnancy, and other national and regional magazines. Her syndicated weekly home design column appears in more than 30 newspapers throughout North America. Though not an interior designer by profession, she is a serial home improver who has built and decorated three homes from the ground up. Jameson lives in her current home improvement project in Castle Rock, Colorado, with her amazingly tolerant husband and two daughters.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Imprint: Da Capo Press
Distributor: Perseus Books Group
Publication Date: 02-26-2008
Pages: 320
Measurements: 9.00in X 6.00in X 20.80oz
