Downsizing Your Home with Style: Living Well In a Smaller Space

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When youre moving a lifetimes accumulation of belongings from a larger home into a jewel box, the task can seem overwhelming—and so can your emotions. How do you decide what to pack and what to part with? How can you use the things you have so that they function well and look right?
Downsizing Your Home with Style answers these questions and more. Learn how to:
*Create more storage
*Make your stuff look smaller and your space look bigger
*Update and modernize your favorite old pieces
*Multipurpose your rooms and furniture
*Find a new home for the stuff you no longer need
From the initial evaluation of your new home to one year after you have settled in, interior designer Lauri Ward takes you through every step with detailed tips, lists of good buys, tricks of the trade, photographs, and anecdotal examples, so that achieving spectacular results is simple and affordable, whatever your style or budget.

Author(s): Lauri Ward
Publisher: William Morrow
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 294

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Dedication......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Introduction: Living More Simply Is the Best Revenge......Page 6
The Ten Most Common Decorating Mistakes You Don’t Have to Make......Page 9
Preparing for Change......Page 21
What to Pack and What to Part With......Page 37
What to Do With What You Part With......Page 73
The Truth about Storage—You Can Never Have Enough......Page 87
Repurpose Your Stuff......Page 114
Camouflage and Sleight of Hand......Page 136
Make It Multifunctional......Page 176
For Kitchens and Bathrooms Only......Page 186
New Tactics for Living Smaller......Page 210
One Year Later—Time to Reasses......Page 223
Index......Page 227
Sources......Page 273
Acknowledgments......Page 287
About the Author......Page 289
Also by Lauri Ward......Page 290
Copyright......Page 291
About the Publisher......Page 293