Own Your Zone: Maximising Style & Space to Work & Live in the Modern Home

by Ruth Matthews

Overview

Create a multifunctional – and stylish – space for working and living at home.

Own Your Zone helps you to create a multifunctional, calm space that works for you and strikes the perfect balance between living and working from home – without compromising on style.

Our home now needs to serve multiple purposes; it needs to be a place we work, work out, wine, dine and chill. With Own Your Zone, learn how to break your home into different zones for work and play. Create an environment that helps you get in the zone at the start of the working day and to easily switch off and wind down when 5.30pm hits.

With more and more of us working from home and it looking likely to become our 'new normal' (firms including Twitter and Facebook have said they will allow employees to work from home forever!), the work-life divide has become hopelessly blurred.

Whether you're working from your bedroom or your kitchen, learn how to carve out a space to help you focus for your 9 to 5, create a book nook for all that important down time or a clutter-free space for yoga – all in the same room.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784885595
Publisher:	Hardie Grant
Publication date:	10/18/2022
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.35(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ruth Matthews is an Interiors blogger and consultant, stylist and photographer based in London. In 2013, she started her blog Design Soda to document her journey creating a beautiful, small space on a tight budget. Seven years later, she is now the proud owner of a house, but her MO remains the same – to make an interesting and stylish home without breaking the bank. Ruth has collaborated with a number of brands including Anthropologie, Ca' Pietra, Cox & Cox, Cult Furniture, Desenio, Farrow and Ball, Habitat, John Lewis, Loaf, L'Occitane, MADE, Maison du Monde, Marks & Spencer, Scandibørn, Soho Home, Wayfair, West Elm and The White Company amongst others.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Zoning 15

What is Zoning? 16

Practicalities of Zoning 20

Working with the Architecture of Your Home 24

Open-plan versus Broken-plan Living 32

Using Paint to Partition 38

Zone and Flow 44

Maximising the Feeling of Space 56

Storage 60

Defining Your Style 65

Sourcing Inspiration 68

Style Schools - Being Your Own Interior Designer 73

Colour 93

Using Colour with Joa Studholme 116

Defining Your Zone 121

Getting in the Zone 124

The Home Office 126

Play: Switching Zones and Switching Off 136

Getting in the Zone for Sleep 148

At Home with Lizzie Evans 155

Enhancing Your Zone 159

Lighting 162

Styling Your Zone 166

The Holistic Home 174

Design and Ecology with Lizzie Ruinard 180

About the Author 184

Acknowledgements 184

Credits 186

Index 188