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Sarah Style!!!
HGTV star Richardson shows a broad range in this idea book for the
armchair designer. The portfolio of style options includes a New York
co-op, a millennial's take on metrosexual, and an Arts and Crafts redux.
For each major category of room in a house entry, living room, dining
room, family room, bedroom, kitchen, kids' bedroom, bathroom, and office
Richardson picks a handful of varied dwellings to feature. Several
pages and a dozen or so photographs are devoted to each example, and
each photo is accompanied by an extended caption. The crowded but
organized photographic spreads eschew any scrapbook frou-frou, getting
right to the point while also being chock-full of ideas. Richardson
recommends "Get Over the Glider" and adeptly places a stylish
high-backed orange upholstered office rocker in a gray, black, white,
and blue nursery. Room layout is another one of Richardson's strengths.
She writes: "the long, narrow proportions of a Victorian town house are
often best addressed with two distinct seating groupings." Fortunately,
the selected photographs capture just the right views to prove her
thesis. While the caption's headlines can border on ingratiating (for
example, "Get Leggy" and "Give It the Slip") the concepts are all there,
on beautiful full-color display. "(Nov.)" Copyright 2014 Publishers
Weekly
