Design*Sponge at Home

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Overview

The long-awaited home décor bible by the beloved design blogger

“Thank you,” wrote a reader to Design*Sponge creator Grace Bonney, “for teaching me that houses don’t have to be frumpy and formal. They don’t have to be matchy-matchy or rigidly modern.” They can just be comfy and unique and reflect who you are, no matter how small your budget or space.

That reader is one of the 75,000 unique daily visitors to Design*Sponge, who make it the most popular design site on the web. The ...

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Overview

The long-awaited home décor bible by the beloved design blogger

“Thank you,” wrote a reader to Design*Sponge creator Grace Bonney, “for teaching me that houses don’t have to be frumpy and formal. They don’t have to be matchy-matchy or rigidly modern.” They can just be comfy and unique and reflect who you are, no matter how small your budget or space.

That reader is one of the 75,000 unique daily visitors to Design*Sponge, who make it the most popular design site on the web. The site receives 250,000 pageviews every day and has 150,000 RSS subscribers and 280,000 followers on Twitter. Design*Sponge fans have been yearning for the ultimate design manual from their guru, Grace, and she has finally delivered with this definitive guide, which includes:

• Home tours of 70 real-life interiors featuring artists and designers

• Fifty DIY projects, with detailed instructions for personalizing your space

• Step-by-step tutorials on everything from stripping and painting furniture to hanging wallpaper and doing your own upholstery

• Fifty Before & After makeovers submitted by readers of Design*Sponge—real people with limited time and realistic budgets

• Essential tips on modern flower arranging, with 20 arrangements

With over 700 color photos and illustrations and projects that are customizable, relatable, and affordable, this is the democratizing design book everyone has been waiting for—and all for only $35.00!

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Design*Sponge didn't need its trademark asterisk to stand out. Grace Bonney's blog ranks as the most popular design site on the web, drawing over 75,000 unique visitors and 250,000 page views every day. This large-format hardcover is the book that its 280,000 followers on Twitter have been anxiously awaiting. Design*Sponge at Home has it all: Fifty do-it-yourself projects to personalize your space; home tours of 70 interiors featuring artists and designers; step-by-step tutorials on home improvement skills; fifty before-and-after makeover submitted by readers; essential tips on flower arranging; and, not least, 700 photographs to point the way. A fantasy feast.

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Bonney started the popular Design*Sponge website in 2004. Here she has collected projects and interiors submitted by her readers, illustrated with close to 550 color photographs. The "Sneak Peek" section showcases interiors created by 70 individuals. Fifty DIY projects feature clear instructions and materials lists as well as realistic difficulty and time-required labels. Although no instructions are given for the 50 "Before+After" projects, the variety of transformed furniture and decorative accessories will surely inspire readers. Also included is a vast list of resources for secondhand finds and inexpensive designer goods. A highly recommended compendium of ideas to inspire amateur decorators.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781579654313
  • Publisher: Artisan
  • Publication date: 9/6/2011
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 63,130
  • Product dimensions: 8.20 (w) x 10.20 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Grace Bonney is the creator of Design*Sponge, a daily Web site dedicated to home and product design. A native of Virginia Beach, Grace has worked as a contributing editor at publications like House & Garden, Domino, and Craft Magazine. In 2006 Grace founded the Design*Sponge Biz Ladies series, a traveling event designed to connect women running their own design-based businesses with free legal, financial, and marketing advice. She lives in an apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with her husband, Aaron Coles, and their two cats, Turk and Ms. Jackson.

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  • Posted September 25, 2011

    Great for inspiration

    If you like the Design*Sponge blog, then you will like this book.

    For anyone else not familiar with the blog (I wasn't until after I bought the book), it has lots of helpful, approachable, and yet inspirational DIY tips, ideas, and projects. In particular I like the upholstery instructions, sewing tips, and the many DIY projects such as the padded headboard.

    The only section I found slightly odd was the flower-arranging chapter. While it is useful for beginner flower-arrangers (and makes sense in that the blog features a weekly blooms column, I learned), I think I would've preferred more DIY information or more decor/styling content. The flower-arranging chapter probably would've been better served in its own book published separately.

    (Also, Barnes and Noble's edition has extra online content that I really enjoyed.)

    7 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 27, 2012

    It's okay, but would have made a better coffee table book!

    In this day and age you need to decide which books are great for the ereaders and which need the hard copy... This one should be a hard copy. It would have looked lovely on my coffee table and a great read for anyone to pick and browse to get some great decorating ideas.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 5, 2012

    can't buy this book!

    I like this book but I can't buy it...

    0 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted November 14, 2011

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    Highly Recommended - you must check it out!!

    Great book, I recommend it!

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