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Houses: Inside and Out

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The award-winning designer and author of Rooms showcases inspiring opportunities for the exteriors, interiors, and details of houses in this lavishly photographed book

Celebrated designer Mariette Himes Gomez believes that a house becomes a home only when it is infused with personal touches, when its individual parts flow together logically, and when it assumes a warm and welcoming character. In Houses, Gomez begins by inviting readers to consider the many elements that unify a house. She reveals how each detail—from the doors, fireplaces, and staircase, to the more conceptual elements of balance, color, and movement—contribute to the home's overall aesthetic, and how each can be combined to create a certain effect. She provides practical guidelines for building, buying, or renovating to create the perfect home, while illustrating how to instill flow and harmony in your overall design. Subscribing to the philosophy that less is more, Gomez reveals how to create homes of unparalleled beauty and grace.

Complementing Gomez's invaluable advice are stunning photographs of the interiors, exteriors, and details of breathtaking houses in a variety of gorgeous settings. An inspirational guide for every design-minded home buyer, builder, or renovator, Houses illuminates the world of possibility that opens up when you create your own home.

A thoroughly insipid, bland, insulting book -
A thoroughly insipid, bland, insulting book. A few of the photos are pretty, but all are completely sterile, as if humans never actually use these rooms, or run, shouting and farting, across these vast lawns. The text is horrendous, larded with meaningless cliches. Gomez explains how to decorate a house only in the vaguest ways, while people who are actually decorating houses need specific information. The text is really superfluous anyway in most books like these, since people are looking at the pictures - so why go to the trouble of writing such crappy, repetitive poo? Nothing in the photos is ever identified as to place or architect, except occasionally in very vague terms - Long Island, Ireland. Photo captions are ludicrously banal and swim in excess nouns and verbs: "An artist uses local elements lifted from the land and made into art to enhance and decorate the landscape of the property" is typical. Gomez seems to indicate at the beginning that she'll limit each chapter to a specific property, yet there are sudden, confusing shifts from one property to another when she wants to move from writing about some general idea - "more than the sum of rooms" to some specific architectural element like a staircase. Most insulting is her statement that we demand home ownership, and "we choose houses over apartments for their particular enticements - land, windows and natural light, privacy, several floors, outdoor living space" - as if everyone can afford these things, and as if without them our lives are less gracious, hospitable, wonderful, meaningful.

American feel -
As beautiful as this book is, the homes inside all felt very American. Had I had the opportunity to browse the pages, I would not have bought it, because I prefer more European/English interiors and exteriors.

boring -
I found the book boring....it might be that I do not share the author's style, but also could be that its a monochrome book (all photographs are bland) and after looking at books by Bunny Williams, Michael Smith, Axel Vervoordt, etc. seems that this designer is not in the same league.

Inspirational -
A true inspiration. An absolute must for anybody who wants to decorate their house.Clear layout, beautiful photos and a very interesting text.
After I finished reading the book, I opened it again and browsed through all the wonderful photos.
I am going to buy another book by the same author, "Rooms".

Good Buy -
I had seen this book in a bookstore and so I knew what I was getting. It's a good read and the pictures are lovely and interesting. If you like these kind of books, I think you'll like this one.