Sarah Style

by Sarah Richardson

Overview

From bestselling author, HGTV star, and Canadian design queen Sarah Richardson comes the interior design book of the decade.

Ever wondered how to transform your laundry room from drab to fab? Your kitchen from prison to paradise? Your bedroom from boring to beautiful?

Now you can, in this comprehensive interior design tome by design maven extraordinaire Sarah Richardson. Within these beautiful, full-colour pages and photographs, Sarah walks you through each room in your home, from the master bedroom to the kids’ rooms, to the kitchen, the bathroom, and everywhere in between, showing you how to turn a house into a home—Sarah style.

Featuring full-page design spreads with stunning attention to detail, Sarah Style is a cache of creative, unique ideas for transforming your living spaces. You can make your dream home a reality, and the inspiration—and complete know-how—is right here in this premier source for all things interior design!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476784380
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	03/07/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	528,937
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

A sought-after designer of homes, commercial spaces, textiles, and furniture, Sarah Richardson is the award-winning founder of Sarah Richardson Design. She has hosted and coproduced eight hit HGTV series, including Sarah Off the Grid and Sarah’s House, and can also be found on her rapidly growing YouTube channel. Her first three books, including Collected: City + Country, all were instant bestsellers. When she’s not at the farm or the cottage, Sarah lives in Toronto with her husband and two daughters. Visit Sarah at SarahRichardsonDesign.com or follow her on Twitter @SarahR_Design, Instagram at @SarahRichardsonDesign, or on YouTube at SarahRichardsonDsgn.

Read an Excerpt

Sarah Style
I think of the entry, foyer, or front hall of your home as a sort of calling card for style. Open the door, cross the threshold, and the first room you encounter sets the tone for what to expect in the rest of the house. Whether your style is formal or casual, contemporary or traditional, the scene is set as soon as the door swings open. Yet these “front of house” areas are often overlooked and considered merely a transition zone to more important and grander areas. Forget the fact that you don’t lounge, eat, entertain, or sleep in your entrance and embrace your ability to create a first impression that speaks volumes about the design direction of your home.

Editorial Reviews

10/20/2014
HGTV star Richardson shows a broad range in this idea book for the armchair designer. The portfolio of style options includes a New York co-op, a millennial’s take on metrosexual, and an Arts and Crafts redux. For each major category of room in a house—entry, living room, dining room, family room, bedroom, kitchen, kids’ bedroom, bathroom, and office—Richardson picks a handful of varied dwellings to feature. Several pages and a dozen or so photographs are devoted to each example, and each photo is accompanied by an extended caption. The crowded but organized photographic spreads eschew any scrapbook frou-frou, getting right to the point while also being chock-full of ideas. Richardson recommends “Get Over the Glider” and adeptly places a stylish high-backed orange upholstered office rocker in a gray, black, white, and blue nursery. Room layout is another one of Richardson’s strengths. She writes: “the long, narrow proportions of a Victorian town house are often best addressed with two distinct seating groupings.” Fortunately, the selected photographs capture just the right views to prove her thesis. While the caption’s headlines can border on ingratiating (for example, “Get Leggy” and “Give It the Slip”) the concepts are all there, on beautiful full-color display. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Sarah Style

“Canada’s doyenne of interior design . . . writes the definitive guide to creating your own dreamy retreat.”
— CANADIAN LIVING

“A comprehensive room-by-room guide to design accompanied by bite-size instructional tips.”
— THE CANADIAN PRESS

From the Publisher

01/01/2015
Over the course of multiple television series, including Sarah's House, Design Inc., and Sarah 101, Canadian interior designer and HGTV host Richardson has transformed over 300 rooms. Here she shares more than 80 of those spaces to explain her design aesthetic with the aim of encouraging amateurs to discover their own personal style. More than 400 photographs show light-filled rooms where Richardson has combined a mix of vintage and modern items in every corner of the home, including children's nooks and home offices. VERDICT Richardson's descriptions of how she approached the design for each area and the abundance of color photographs will inspire readers to tackle their own interiors.

Library Journal