Rooms To Love

The art of styling a room foxes many of us. How do you keep your home looking fresh, welcoming and spacious, all without costing the earth? It would be wonderful to have the skills of a stylist to offer advice and inspiration sometimes, particularly at the change of season, when we naturally want to smarten things up a bit.

Authors of New Zealand Interior Style, LeeAnn and Larnie Nicholson have recently released Rooms To Love, a beautiful book to inspire even the most reticent home decorator.

Beautifully photographed, Rooms To Love shows how to combine colour, texture and items you already have to create ambience in your home. LeeAnn is known for her love of colour and her designs are simple, yet extremely effective.

Rooms To Love is broken up into many sections and is the sort of book that takes you off into a daydream, where you can feel your own creative juices starting to flow and imagine you home as it looks in your wildest dreams.

It is a book that will enhance your coffee table collection – the layout is fresh and interesting and the tips are easy to find and read – it is not about theory, it is about practical guidelines that anyone can follow.

Changing the styling in a room can create more space or make the space you have far more live-able. The tips on storage are really useful as well – you can never have too much storage!

It will give you the confidence to dig out some old treasures and display them creatively alongside more modern pieces, or how to combine fabrics and textures with ease.

Rooms to Love is a great present to buy for yourself, or someone else (if you really have to!)