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I think that I would be a great canidate for this book because I love to decorate but have a hard time coming up with great ideas. I've been married a year now and I feel like I'm just now getting into really making our home feel just right. I already ordered the apartmenttherapy book, but it hasn't came yet. I need all the help I can get. Even if I don't recieve the book I still will get so many ideas from this website... Thanks alot.
-Destiny

I'd like to give this a shot because we've just signed a lease on a new place that we love and are moving our limited furniture out of storage -- we have a complete blank canvass to try out some of the author's ideas on. I'd be interested in sharing some photos of ideas in practical application, also.

I am a home design book junkie. Buy them, take them home, cherish them, make them my own. Paradoxically, despite the design addiction, my house doesn't look so good. You see, I have quite collection of "things." My current obsessions include 1950s Venetian glass ash trays (even though I don't smoke), pearl/French ivory/bone antique flatware, and white pottery or other white sculptural stuff. That last one is the killer. I find that most home design books have pretty pictures, but are short on practical advice. So I would be reviewing this book for ideas that the average person can use. If you send me this book not only will I review it with jaunty prose, I promise to reduce my current collection of design books by one (1) book of approximately equal girth Hey, its a start.

I just bought my first apartment and am starting from scratch with decorating -- really from scratch, as in I have no furniture, accessories, carpets, linens, etc. Nothin. Nada. I love my new beautiful, sunny, 600 sq. foot apartment, but I have no idea where to begin! I'm so excited by the prospect of making this place my very own, but it is also incredibly daunting to have nothing to decorate around yet. I'm so afraid of making a mistake and so nervous trusting my own judgment. I would love this book because I think the only way to discover what you really like is to just look at a lot of different design ideas and see how you react to them. I've been doing that with magazines, blogs (this one in particular!) and by browsing and window shopping at countless stores. Please give me this great tool -- I need the help!
And I'm good at short and pithy. And with deadlines.

I can read.
I can write.
I love books.
I promise my review of this book will come typed from my vintage Hermes 3000 typewriter.

Why should i get this book? because i am in the middle of redecorating not one, but TWO apartments. One is currently being fixed up starting from the bones, and the other one is almost a ready canvas (just needs appliances, and a deep cleaning)

Pick me! Pick me! ;-) I am a decorative painter who has participated in several Designer Show Houses over the years, providing the wall, floor and/or ceiling designs. I'd love to see what houses/rooms are in this book and what innovative ideas are waiting for the more modest homeowner to adapt to our spaces.

I have been tucked away in the den of motherhood for five years now and it is time to take the plunge into the articulate and thinking world of design. A wall-fly observer I am not yet that is what I have become. I dare you to give me the opportunity to review this book in the context of the torrent of home inspiration that overwhelms the novice and the expert designer alike. You will be doing your readers and the reviewer a great service if you do. Thank you for your consideration.

Hi guys.
I'm a consistent reader of AT, as you know. I'm also the Mom of a busy family, entirely responsible for making our home a healthy and happy and, most of all, functional place to be.

For this book to live up to its promise and to be of any use to me, it would have to show me well designed spaces to handle some of the problems we face.

I'd like to see ways to get four people out the door in a mad rush with everything we need (matching gloves would be nice).

I want to see kitchens that have room for the kids and Mom to bake together while Dad prepares four lunches.

I want to see spaces designed so that we don't have to fight for computer time, nor be squashed when we finally get it.

I'd be anxious to see how a well designed house can control noise. Would my daughter be able to talk on the phone to her friend without having to escape to the bathroom when we have the T.V. the radio and the computer on?

How well are the spaces designed so that we can come together? Can Dad (or Mom) do that work from the office (or a craft) and supervise homework at the same time?

I'd like to see cozy spaces where we can play games together or read comfortably in the same room.

I'd like one, just one great idea for a message centre so we can stay in touch with one another.

And will it have pictures with warmth and joy? Will the text explain to me how to create that in my own home? And, most importantly to me, will I be able to adapt any of their useful ideas into my small urban home without costly renovations?

That is what I'd be looking for, if you sent me this book. These are the questions I would like a reviewer to answer.

However, it isn't likely to be me as the cost of shipping may be prohibitive and the proposed turn around time is impossible.

But it's always nice to dream.

I should review this book!

There is nothing more exciting, than a design idea picture book and no one with a more critical, I mean discerning eye, than I. As I watch design shows, I can be heard giving colorful accounts of which ones are excellent and which ones are done by the producers' relatives. I may not be able to design as well as the experts, but I do a bang up job of separating the monochrome from the bloodless; the electrifying from the fried; the eclectic from the 'holy crap!': the crib from the crypt!

How timely is this!? I am moving next month into an apartment, with an unusual shape. I lie awake nights trying to imagine, how to style my new adventure. But I am, alas, one of those people who needs to see something done, in order to pick it apart and make it my own.

I view all things, with an eye towards, how can I do that? The practical application...does it translate to me? A fan of many styles and tastes, I am someone, who spends way too much of her time, redesigning all spaces she sees. Although a concept may not be my cup of tea, I can appreciate the ceremony of the presentation, the art of the of the offering.

Plus I have already looked at the online previews and pictures of the 'Design Idea Book' and I'm not sure I can move into my new apartment, without it. This book is the perfect tool for me and I, the perfect tool, for it.

Thank you very much and I hope I win.

Even after living in my new (purchased) apartment for over a year, I still have paint splotches on the walls of my bedroom, and am still lacking a carpet. The work-studio still needs lighting. My long-time friends know that this is just how it is---that my homes are in a constant state of transformation, mostly d.i.y., mostly constructed out of magnets, hat-forms, anything Hilti, bits of string, cast-off table-legs and wooden spoons (and more magnets!). Having lived in a 200sf walk-up for fifteen years (bathtub in the kitchen), I am now trying to do things right.....even hiring a contractor (who I LOVED) and desperately attempting to build/paint/decorate in a way that I can live within my space, rather than having to live around it. So even though it's been a year, and I'm still painting, I'm very pleased with the (hugely researched) decisions I've made...the bamboo floors, enormous built-in bookshelf, my dvd projector-instead-of-a-tv. I know way too much about low-voc paints, eco-friendly flooring, mattresses, and carpets, concrete and drywall anchors, and solar power. It's kind of pathetic. This is not a cute or clever pitch. I just spent a month in a fake tree, and that is why you should pick me.

Spending yet another Saturday morning in the only Barnes and Nobles of New Orleans area…. Quite a drive but there is nothing of this kind in New Orleans per se.

Browsing through sections, turning pages, admiring images. Would love to have some of these books closer to me, but this is not the time. So, in these short hours I have carved for the visit, I am attempting to learn, to understand. My hope is that these reading sessions will help me map out my steps to finally make this small destroyed cottage of mine a real home. Where I can gather my friends, cook a great meal, put my currently boxed books along the shelves.

Maybe to put this book of yours on the shelves - after it helps me getting the house ready for the shelves….

I should be the one to review this book. I have read more design books than I can count. I hope that this book will have great ideas that I could use in my home, since that is its purpose. It seems to be meant to help people that find their homes lacking in... something. They have no idea what it is, but they feel they need a little polish or pizzazz.

I am not participating in this just to get a book to help myself. Whenever I read home decor magazines or books, I take note of the new ideas being presented even if they do not necessarily appeal to me. I have family members and friends who are always looking for ways to improve their spaces. Perhaps something I come across could be the exact thing that they need and many times, it has.

My bookshelves are filled with books that I think are worthy. For me to purchase a book instead of being content to check it out of the library, it has to offer a lot. I want to use it as a reference. I want it to expose me to ideas, teach me something new, and offer inspiration.

So let me read this book and get back to you. I will look at it to see how many people would find it helpful. I will read what the author states is the purpose of her book and see how well she succeeds in that goal. That is the true test of a book like this.

I will see if it can help the people with a 500 sq foot apartments as well as families in 3,500 sq ft houses.
I will look for concepts that could translate for both a couple just starting out and for retirees.
Will it appeal to lovers of a bold contemporary style or just to traditionalists?
Is this book accessible to someone who does not follow design?
Will someone who does follow design enjoy this book?

I will think of those questions when I read it and my review will try to answer them.

If this is the kind of review you are looking for…then choose me.