94 Best Interior Design Books (2024)

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Styled

Secrets for Arranging Rooms, from Tabletops to Bookshelves

Emily Henderson - 2015-10-13

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Transform your living space into a beautiful, personal oasis with Styled. Emily Henderson's ultimate guide to styling any room features ten simple steps that will have you designing like a pro in no time. With over 1,000 ideas and tips from 75 stunning rooms, you'll discover how even a few small tweaks can make a big impact. Decorating can take months and cost a fortune, but styling only takes minutes. Unleash your inner stylist with Styled.

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Homebody

A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave

Joanna Gaines - 2018-11-06

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Transform your living space into a beautiful reflection of your personality with Joanna Gaines' Homebody. This guide offers practical tips for discovering and embracing your authentic design style, assessing priorities, instincts and likes and dislikes. With a room-by-room analysis and a fold-out design guidebook to help plan and sketch, Homebody offers the confidence and know-how needed to create a home you'll never want to leave.

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Made for Living

Collected Interiors for All Sorts of Styles

Amber Lewis, Cat Chen - 2020-10-27

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Master the art of home decor layering with this trendsetting designer's expert advice. Learn how to arrange all your disparate things so that they work together for a cohesive, beautifully designed home. Get tips on refreshing a room with new paint, mixing textiles and pillows, and blending neutrals. With Amber Lewis's elegant and timeless style, your home will be transformed into a place you'll want to keep for the long run.

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Elements of Style

Designing a Home & a Life

Erin Gates - 2014-10-07

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Discover how to design a home that reflects your personality and style with this must-read book by a rising-star designer and author of a hit blog. In Elements of Style, readers will find honest advice, inspiration, and stunning illustrations that accompany personal essays about the author's own experiences designing her home and life. With practical tips on everything from choosing kitchen counter materials to decorating a nursery without cartoon characters, this charming guide is an outlet of personal expression and an exercise in self-discovery.

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Habitat

The Field Guide to Decorating

Lauren Liess - 2015-10-13

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Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating by Lauren Liess teaches readers how to bring nature inside and mix natural textures with quirky vintage pieces for a unique design style. The book is divided into three sections and covers fundamental elements of design, aesthetics, mood creation, and room-specific challenges. Readers will be inspired by lovely botanical prints and Liess’s own textile patterns inspired by wildflowers and weeds.

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The Color Scheme Bible

Inspirational Palettes for Designing Home Interiors

Anna Starmer - 2005-04-02

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Discover the ultimate guide to choosing the perfect color schemes for your home with The Color Scheme Bible. With 200 easy-to-use and inspiring ideas, this comprehensive book describes how colors interact and their effects on a room. It includes 50 recommended palettes and practical advice on creating ambience and illusion of space. An essential handbook for decorators and interior designers, it's no surprise that the hardcover edition has sold over 100,000 copies.

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The Kinfolk Home

Interiors for Slow Living

Nathan Williams - 2015-10-20

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Explore the art of creating a beautiful and intimate living space with The Kinfolk Home. Focusing on the ethos of slowing down and simplifying, founder Nathan Williams takes readers on a tour of 35 carefully constructed homes from around the world. From modern urban homes to those with a rich history, each space exudes a sense of thoughtfulness and intention. With inviting photographs and insightful profiles, this much-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller, The Kinfolk Table, is sure to inspire readers everywhere.

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Jungalow

Decorate Wild

Justina Blakeney - 2021-04-06

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A gorgeous and engaging guide to creating vibrant and personal interiors filled with color, pattern, and inspiration. In each chapter, author Justina Blakeney shares her unique perspective on how to break rules, take cues from nature, and authentically incorporate heritage and travel experiences into design. With personal narratives and practical advice, she encourages readers to reconnect with nature, play, and feel free in their spaces. This book is the ultimate resource for anyone looking to decorate with wild creativity and style.

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Domino

The Book of Decorating

Deborah Needleman - 2008-10-14

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Discover the secrets to creating a beautiful home with Domino: The Book of Decorating. From premier tastemakers, this style manual offers how-to advice and insider tips to make design accessible and exciting. Follow along as the editors take you room by room, tapping the best ideas from domino magazine and their own experiences. Demystify the decorating process and create spaces that are personal, functional, and fabulous.

Discover the history of interior design with "Inspired Design" - a one-of-a-kind book that showcases ALL the designers that have influenced the industry over the last 100 years. Explore the profiles of each designer, accompanied by stunning photographs of their best work. Learn from their innovative designs and discover how they have forever changed the world of decorating.

May I Come In?

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Wendy Goodman

Live Beautiful

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Athena Calderone

The Interior Design Handbook

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Frida Ramstedt

The Finer Things

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Christiane Lemieux

The New Bohemians

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Justina Blakeney

The Interior Design Reference & Specification Book updated & revised

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Chris Grimley

Living with Pattern

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Rebecca Atwood

Home Decor Cheat Sheets

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Jessica Probus

New York School of Interior Design

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Ellen S. Fisher, Jen Renzi

Still

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Natalie Walton

Interior Design Master Class

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Carl Dellatore

Kelly Wearstler

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Kelly Wearstler

Residential Interior Design

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Maureen Mitton

The Inspired Room

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Melissa Michaels

The New Southern Style

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Alyssa Rosenheck

The Nesting Place

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Myquillyn Smith

Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning

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Joseph Dechiara

Down to Earth

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Lauren Liess

Black and White

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Celerie Kemble

Design the Home You Love

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Lee Mayer, Emily Motayed

More Beautiful

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Mark D. Sikes

Remodelista

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Julie Carlson

The Home Edit

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Clea Shearer

The Secret Lives of Color

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Kassia StClair

Beautifully Organized

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Nikki Boyd

Everything

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Abigail Ahern

Steven Gambrel

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Steven Gambrel

Veere Grenney

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Veere Grenney

Design*Sponge at Home

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Grace Bonney

Thomas O'Brien

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Thomas O'Brien

New York Living

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Paul Gunther

The Decoration of Houses

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Ogden Codman

The Perfectly Imperfect Home

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Deborah Needleman

Remodelista

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Julie Carlson

The Perfect Bath

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Barbara Sallick

The Beauty of Home

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Marie Flanigan

Simple Decorating

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Melissa Michaels

The House in Good Taste

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Elsie de Wolfe

The Home Edit Life

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Clea Shearer, Joanna Teplin

Wild Interiors

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Hilton Carter

Cozy White Cottage

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Liz Marie Galvan

Cozy White Cottage Seasons

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Liz Marie Galvan

Buckingham Palace

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Ashley Hicks

Pacific Natural at Home

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Jenni Kayne

Beata Heuman

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Beata Heuman

Feels Like Home

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Lauren Liess

The Maine House

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Maura McEvoy, Basha Burwell, Kathleen Hackett

Get It Together!

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Orlando Soria

The Little Book of Living Small

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Laura Fenton

Beautiful

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Mark D. Sikes

Mad About the House

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Kate Watson-Smyth

Modern Americana

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Max Humphrey

The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes

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Monocle

Designing History

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Michael S. Smith

Bold British Design

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Emilio Pimentel-Reid

Monochrome Home

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Hilary Robertson

Design Secrets

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Kit Kemp

The World of Apartamento

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Omar Sosa

At Home

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Isabel López-Quesada

Golden Light

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Todd Nickey, Amy Kehoe

Farrow & Ball How to Decorate

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Farrow & Ball

By Design

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Phaidon Editors

Interior Design

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Partap Rao M.

More is More is More

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Carl Dellatore, Dara Caponigro

Alidad

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Sarah Stewart-Smith

Joseph Dirand

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Joseph Dirand

S Is for Style

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Dara Caponigro

Farrow & Ball How to Decorate, Mad about the House 2 Books Collection Set

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Farrow & Ball, Charlotte Cosby Joa Studholme, Kate Watson-Smyth, Charlotte Cosby Farrow & Ball How To Decorate Farrow & Ball Joa Studholme, Mad About the House Kate Watson-Smyth

The Elements of a Home

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Amy Azzarito

Katie Ridder

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Katie Ridder

Alexa Hampton

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Alexa Hampton

New York Splendor

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Wendy Moonan

The Complete Book of Home Organization

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Toni Hammersley

Sean Scherer's Kabinett & Kammer

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Sean Scherer

The Interior Design Course (2nd ed) /anglais

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Tangaz Tomris

Tara Bernerd

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Tara Bernerd

Ryan Korban

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Ryan Korban

Make Life Beautiful

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Syd and Shea McGee

This is Home

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Natalie Walton

The Things That Matter

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Nate Berkus

Design Mom

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Gabrielle Stanley Blair

Home Therapy

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Anita Yokota

Sage Living

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Anne Sage

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