Lovable Livable Home: How to Add Beauty, Get Organized, and Make Your House Work for You

by Sherry Petersik, John Petersik

Overview

This New York Times bestselling book is packed with thoughtful advice and inspiring photos to help you create a home filled with beauty and meaning. 
 
In the three years since Sherry and John Petersik wrote their bestselling book Young House Love, they have bought a new house and had a new baby, and they have seen their design perspective evolve right along with their family. In their latest book, they’ve set out to prove that just because you have kids or pets doesn’t mean you’re sentenced to floors overrun with toys or furniture covered in plastic. Through never-before-seen makeovers in the Petersiks’ own house, doable DIY projects, and a gallery of other inspiring spaces, Lovable Livable Home shows how beautiful homes can be functional too.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781579656225
Publisher:	Artisan
Publication date:	09/22/2015
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	1,128,420
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Sherry and John Petersik are the married duo who chronicled their home improvement adventures on the hit DIY blog Young House Love, which spawned a New York Times–bestselling book of the same name, as well as product lines sold by Target, Home Depot, and more. They live in Richmond, Virginia, with their two young children and a feisty Chihuahua named Burger.

Editorial Reviews

07/20/2015
The Petersiks (Young House Love) continue their family-friendly, do-it-yourself home decorating with this ambitious sourcebook of ideas, advice, and inspiration for “getting more organized, adding beauty, staying within your budget, and squeezing more function, meaning and personality out of your home.” Organized by activity spaces (e.g., eating, sleeping), the book provides suggestions for adding color, texture, pattern, and character into each room of the house. Being creative is made accessible with step-by-step instructions for such projects as decorative wall doodles, painted furniture (a lace-stenciled thrift store table is pretty and practical), and hand-painted hanging plates. The authors recommend families ditch DIY for “DIT (Do It Together)” and provide suggestions for getting the kids involved in decorating their rooms. The book’s overall style is youthful, modern, and budget-sensitive, with comfortable, highly functional rooms that are not overdecorated. The authors hit the mark on relaxed living in theory and execution. More ambitious or experienced do-it-yourselfers will want to look else for inspiration, however. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Find the sweet spot where form, function and meaning align. This philosophy is at the center of the book, which is as much about imbuing the nooks and crannies of your home with personal significance as it is about practicality and aesthetics.”
—Washington Post

“There’s no point in showing you stunningly designed spaces if you can’t actually do them. These ideas from Sherry and John Petersik . . . are the cure for decor boredom, no handyman required.”
—Redbook

“Family-friendly, do-it-yourself home decorating. . . . Modern and budget-sensitive with comfortable, highly functional rooms that are not overdecorated. The authors hit the mark on relaxed living in theory and execution.”
—Publishers Weekly

“The authors . . . show how to create a comfortable, stylish abode to accommodate families (and their pets) of all sizes, ages, and physical limitations. Over 300 color photographs demonstrate how these DIYers personalize and organize their living, eating, sleeping, washing, entry, working, and play spaces. Included are a number of simple projects.”
—Library Journal

 

From the Publisher

09/15/2015
Husband-and-wife duo the Petersiks began blogging (Young House Love) to chronicle the remodeling of their first home, eventually writing a book with the same title. Now after remodeling their third home, the authors visit U.S. families, including their own, to show how to create a comfortable, stylish abode to accommodate families (and their pets) of all sizes, ages, and physical limitations. Over 300 color photographs demonstrate how these DIYers personalize and organize their living, eating, sleeping, washing, entry, working, and play spaces. Included are a number of simple projects. The results of a 35,000-participant survey about lifestyles and living spaces are interspersed throughout the book, which concludes with a detailed source list for every photograph. VERDICT The clever ideas developed by these amateurs that adapt to the needs of busy families will motivate others to tackle their own spaces.

Library Journal