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Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure

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From not enough space and too many things to not knowing what color to paint the living room walls, many of us struggle with our homes. Now Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, frequent makeover expert on HGTV’s Mission: Organization and Small Spaces, Big Style, shares the do-it-yourself strategies that have enabled his clients and fans to transform their apartments into well-organized, beautiful places that suit their style and budget.

Week by week, Apartment Therapy will guide you to treat common problems, eliminate clutter, and revamp even the tiniest space. Here is an eight-step process that includes:

A therapeutic questionnaire to help you get in touch with your personal taste and diagnose your home’s physical, emotional, and energy flow issues

A prescription with recommendations for each room based on your needs and lifestyle–including tips on how to use color, lighting, and accessories

A treatment plan, including regular maintenance schedules to ensure the ongoing health of your space

Illustrations of floor plans and decorative examples that allow you to visualize concepts before you begin

With surprising ease and without elaborate professional help, Apartment Therapy will help you clear a path through disorder and indecision–to reveal a home you’ll love.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.019
EAN: 9780553383126
ISBN: 0553383124
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2006-03-28
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: 2006-03-28
Studio: Bantam


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Design Solutions
• My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living
• Living Large in Small Spaces: Expressing Personal Style in 100 to 1,000 Square Feet
• Domino: The Book of Decorating: A room-by-room guide to creating a home that makes you happy
• Speed Cleaning


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Life changing -
I have been struggling with my 350 sq. ft. studio and this book has been an incredible help. It gives you a plan to follow which helps you maintain your focus and provide some pacing. Trying to come up with a plan on my own had me frazzled since I was trying to do a million things at once and actually accomplishing very little.

It also provides a lot of valuable tips on how make decisions and behind the scenes tips on how to organize cords, create wall displays and set up lighting.

So, buy it already.

A look at your home is a look at yourself -
This book is a great way to discover where you are and how our homes refelct it. It all works together - find out how and how to change that. Great "therapy" for you and your home!

Apartment Therapy VERY THERAPUTIC -
The book is both informative and entertaining...
It is a good read ... Easy to absorb ...
Definitely suggest one take the time to plan
ahead before starting to remodel ... even if
it is on a small scale ... Vince - Wellington, Ks

Very helpful -
I am extremely pleased with this book. I didn't expect so many checklists, diagrams, illustrations, different ways to analyze and consider your need and style and preferences-- this little book is just PACKED full of good stuff and it's FUN to read-- go figure! The underlying ideas are very reminiscent of old Feng Shui ideas-- that your living space affects your mood and thus your life-- except more practical and without the superstition. I loved the explanation of flow through the apartment, and the easy, step-by-step weekly plans-- because otherwise it would all be too overwhelming. But it's not overwhelming because the author really holds your hand and walks you through the whole process and it's quite enjoyable! Whew, what a relief!

Relevant To REAL Life.... LOVE It! -
I first started with this book in December of 2007 and have revisited it more times than I can count. I got it from the library and am finally purchasing my own copy because they kept making me bring it back (imagine that!).

While I can understand the other reviewers frustration with its lack of visuals to back up its content, I actually find that refreshing. Instead of showing you other people's spaces, styles and solutions, it walks you through the process of analyzing your own space, defining your own style, and addressing the direct and indirect lifestyle issues that affect how your home actually functions.

Once I was able to recognize and rectify the issues this book helped me identify, it was amazing how things began to come together. It has been a phenomenal springboard for our home in terms of both healthy functioning, and creating a decorative scheme that actually works with who we are.

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