Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave

By Joanna Gaines

Book Overview

Joanna Gaines' instant #1 New York Times bestseller--Homebody is your ultimate guide to creating spaces you never want to leave.

In Homebody, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. Using examples from her own farmhouse as well as a range of other homes, this comprehensive guide will help you assess your priorities and instincts, as well as your likes and dislikes, with practical steps for navigating and embracing your authentic design style.

Room by room, Homebody gives you an in-depth look at how these styles are implemented as well as how to blend the looks you're drawn to in order to create spaces that feel distinctly yours. A removable design template at the back of the book offers a step-by-step guide to planning and sketching out your own design plans. The insight shared in Homebody will instill in you the confidence to thoughtfully create inviting spaces in your own home.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006280197X
• ISBN13: 9780062801975
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.9" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

InIn some ways better than the Fixer Upper T.V. program. some ways better than the Fixer Upper T.V.

This book has an equal amount of what is included in what is not included; therefore, not everyone will be enamored of what looks like a great coffee table book. Of course, it is a Catch-22 book in the sense that you need to buy the book to find out what coffee table you’re going to put the book on. The first glaringly missing room on the contents list of rooms in this book is the library. After you get about 300 pages into the book, there is one picture of a built-in library wall. The book is interspersed with shelving that has obscure books as decorations. I may have some problems with squeezing my 10,000+ books into one of her schemes or themes. Maybe she can produce a book on home libraries? Periodically, there is a craft room, which again is more designed for contemporary kitsch crafts, bypassing such crafts as looms and spinning. We know that Joanna Gaines has more kinds of animals than you can imagine. So why not create places to put cat depository boxes and scratch poles? My cats eat out of Fiesta ware. We know that hardwood floors look spiffy, but will they hold up to hairballs? For better or worse, the book does not take the time to tell of the sources of most of the decor. So, it is more of a suggestion book than a catalog. Do not forget to look at the parts of the book that make this a book, such as an index that will help you locate things that you didn’t notice when you were just skimming through. Also, be sure to look at the Acknowledgments and see where some of the ideas came from. There is a Homebody Design Template to help you design what you want your house to look like in the context of how the house is built. Be sure to slow down and read between the pictures.

OK not wonderful

It's OK if you want to celebrate Joanna Gaines, definitely a coffee table type book.