Unique interior designing projects by interior designers

Behind this book is to give you more of the inside scoop on what goes into each project as well as an insider’s view of “Ty’s secret rooms;’ the rooms that I personally create for families. I want to share my passion for intelligent, imaginative design and let you in on all the tricks for crafting unique, personal interiors that I’ve learned down (sometimes literally) in the trenches. By the end of this book, you’ll know exactly what it takes, from Step A to Step Z, to bring a little more style into your life. Unless you have the ABC network and your entire town standing by with a wrecking ball, it’s easier and far more affordable to tackle one or a few rooms at a time, so I’ve narrowed this book down to three high- impact areas of the house: bedrooms, living spaces, and work spaces.
I’m also going to talk about the elements of style that apply to all rooms, including what to look at before you leap (what stays, what goes, how to make a floor plan); how to decide what style you’re going to go for; and how to use color and texture in ways that are unexpected, but not insane. You don’t want it to look like you got inspiration from a clown college (though maybe Bozo Bohemian is your thing, which is fine by me). I also want to encourage you and give you the nail- by-nail instructions on how to build some of your own furnishings. The TV audience might not know it, but I design custom furniture for just about every room I do on the show. Someone else usually builds it for me now only because the show’s time crunch makes it impossible for me to build it myself. But I’ve handcrafted hundreds of different pieces over the years and I still love it. The great thing about building your own furniture and accessories is that it’s not expensive. It is terribly difficult and it’s so gratifying to know that you’ve created a major design element (or even a minor one) for your home with your bare hands. Your friends will be pretty impressed, too. Really, you’ve got to try it. Keep in mind that you don’t have to overhaul a room completely to give it a striking makeover. Sometimes fooling around with just one or two elements is all you need to do. My goal here is to give you tons of ideas from which you can pick and choose. We’ll talk about walls and floors, lighting and storage, wallpaper and fabric-yes, I’m going to talk xii about wallpaper and fabric.