Trade Secrets: Insider Advice on Getting Your Own Personal Style

By Better Homes and Gardens

Features: Highlights 21 homes of product designers, interior designers, photostylists, and shopkeepers; This inspirational book is filled with the newest ideas and pro tips to create personal style... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0696217538
• ISBN13: 9780696217531
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Better Homes & Gardens Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Read it in a day

I loved this book so much that I read it in a day. It profiles entrepreneurs and takes you inside their homes and explains their different styles, techniques and inspirations. Those profliled range from product designers to shopkeepers, photo stylists and interior designers. Great source of inspiration and ideas from a variety of perspectives.

settle in for a good read

I am now half way through Trade Secrets and am loving it. It has the perfect balance of photos and text and tons of useful tips for how to replicate the styles you love in the book. As with a fabulous novel, I am taking each section very slowly, savoring the text, studying the details, and trying to figure out how to make everything work for my new house. The other reviewer is right--it is very much like a magazine, rather than an interior design text book, and this is a good thing. It's an entree into the homes of some of the most creatively minded people out there. What's best is that a lot of different styles are represented, it's not all the starkly metal modern of Metropolitan Home or the flouncy romantic cottage style of Country Living. If you're bored w/ the Pottery Barn cookie-cutter look and are after fresh ideas, look no further!

This is the best decorating book I've bought

Of the three decorating books I've bought this year, this one is the very best. It is stylish, "newsy" (if that's a word), current, packed with ideas, and wide ranging in the looks and ideas it contains. It's also a lot of fun. I don't know when I have seen a decorating book that's as fresh, current, and sort of magaziney as this. It's topical and trendy but I know I'll be using it as inspiration for a long time.

Very cool yet full of ideas

This book is very cool yet full of ideas on how "insiders" decorate. You get to tour the homes of designers and even magazine stylists but the focus is on how you can create your own look. I liked reading about where they get their ideas and their "stuff." This book is unique. It's stylish and fun and practical too.