Domino: The Book of Decorating: A room-by-room guide to creating a home that makes you happy

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Product Description
Domino: The Book of Decorating cracks the code to creating a beautiful home, bringing together inspiring rooms, how-to advice and insiders' secrets from today's premier tastemakers in an indispensable style manual. The editors take readers room by room, tapping the best ideas from domino magazine and culling insights from their own experiences. With an eye to making design accessible and exciting, this book demystifies the decorating process and provides the tools for making spaces that are personal, functional and fabulous.

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5 out of 5 stars

Practical, Doable and FUN for Young Adults October 3, 2008
55 out of 55 found this review helpful

As an interior designer, I am always looking at new decorating books for ideas and tips. I read Domino: The Book of Decorating: A Room-by-Room Guide to Creating a Home that Makes Your Happy, immediately. My approach is accessibility, sustainability and livability--a live in, down to earth approach, not the hands-off look of many designers.

My approach, in other words, is similar to Domino's approach. This book provides terrific and inspiring photographs, good layout advice, and great design tips. But beware--this book is geared toward young adults--mostly people in their 20's.

Your home should make you happy and that is what the designers/authors of this book set out to teach. To be happy in your home is my number one goal for my clients and myself.

I also appreciate the green tips scattered throughout the book. Another indispensable guide for green and beautiful homes that I recommend with Domino is HARMONIOUS ENVIRONMENT: BEAUTIFY, DETOXIFY & ENERGIZE YOUR LIFE YOUR HOME & YOUR PLANET.

For real life examples of decorating, I also recommend: APARTMENT THERAPY.

Highly recommend for real, practical and timely decorating advice!

2 out of 5 stars

Disappointing! October 2, 2008
10 out of 16 found this review helpful

I just received this book last night and was quite disappointed. First, the size is too small-it is smaller than the magazine and the images are just not large enough. Second, I had hoped that Domino would have included new photos of rooms, not just a rehashing of old images. I can look through my collection of Domino magazines if I want to see the same rooms and read the same text. Not very inspirational or interesting. Save your money.

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant! October 3, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

More often that not decorating books are just eye candy; after read them once you are satisfied but done. This is NOT the case with domino's first book. The domino team has managed to create a book that you will keep reading it again and again. It is simply brilliant!

Even though I have kept every issue of domino and go through them regularly, the book's format allows for a deeper approach to domino's mission. They have really worked hard to make the book into a usable tool. With more than just pretty pictures and stories, this book provides a framework for how to think about putting together a room (and yes their is new content).

I am only disappointed in two ways: 1, I wish the book referenced the issue each in which each room originally appeared and/or provided information about the products in each room. Perhaps there was not enough space, but access to information is one of my favorite parts of domino's monthly. 2, They also overlooked closets as room. And lets face it they have featured some stunning closets over the past few years.

Buy this book, you will NOT regret it!!!

5 out of 5 stars

Delightful Design! October 2, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

Unlike the previous reviewer, I adore my new Domino book. First of all, the compact size is perfect for throwing in your bag when you decide to hit the shops and boutiques. You can pull it out and it lays flat easily; the sections are divided into easy to read and easy to access room-by-room descriptions that make referencing easy. Each section starts with layout, then design, then accessories and tips and in true Domino fashion, the tone is casual, friendly and accessible. There's nothing snotty or stuck up about Domino, which is one reason I love it. Second, I'm glad they used material from past issues. I certainly don't have the room to save all my magazines! For those unacquainted with the Domino magazine ethos - green, friendly, idiosyncratic and affordable design for all - this is a great intro to the monthly features and to home design itself. I think the thing i love most is the subtitle: "a room by room guide to creating a home that makes you happy" which, in these volatile, dangerous, lean economic and political times, is especially meaningful.

3 out of 5 stars

Domino: The Insomniac's Take October 22, 2008
7 out of 11 found this review helpful

Fighting insomnia just now, I was remembering an article I read in the "New Yorker" a few years ago by John Seabrook on the subject of "nobrow" design, not lowbrow, not highbrow, but this new concept: the nobrow. As I recall, his example was of finding a chest or coffee table someplace like Crate & Barrel that was made to look like an heirloom; what did the object "signify," if now anyone could buy such an object at a reasonable price, and no one could easily tell the difference between an expensive and a moderately-priced object. At the time I remember thinking, what an odd topic to write about, of all the topics in the world to write about, and would you begrudge me some decent design?

But now I think perhaps he was on to something interesting. We have entered the world of "Design for All" and "Design Within Reach," and if there is a nobrow world, I think Domino embodies it; their "big black book" resource guide includes those nobrow standards like Ikea and Target and Pottery Barn. And they've even supplied an answer for what design means: not the elitism of the past, the housewife striving and scrimping in order to buy lemon yellow drapes, but rather "creating a home that makes you happy." No one can argue with that.

"Decorating is a lot more democratic than it used to be," the editor writes in what is surely a strange usage of "democracy." Domino is all about demystifiying, democratizing and deconstructing, and it accomplishes the latter through a kind of room profiling that's a bit on the "Sporty Spice or Posh Spice?" side. Are you an Urbane Cowboy? Rustic Zen or Rich 'n Handsome? I can just imagine some do-it-yourselfer ham-handing the "moody palette" or going for that black and pink baby's room with some weird results.

The topic of decorating causes me anxiety, perhaps because like so many young families, mine is stretched overly-thin, living in a fixer-upper, and I cope by willfully not seeing the chaos around me. Sometimes I think I actually like the weirdness, the layers of old wallpaper in my kitchen, printed with Yankee goods like Ipswich lamps and foot warmers, cape cod lighters and spinning wheels; I infinitely prefer it to fake "mis en scenes" or "done" homes or wall-to-wall Pottery Barn homes. Decorating depresses me because I tend to think of it as frosting a rotten cake, when I think of it, because I dislike the underlying structure of so many homes, the illogical ways we live, separating children into little warrens, giving parents a suite, then playing musical beds. Domino exacerbates my anxiety on the subject, though many will likely warm to the easy spreads and paint-by-number format. This is like beginner's decor, and I'm going to stick with my anti-decor a bit more.

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