Interior Designing for All Five Senses

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Summary: Great decorating tips
Review: A wonderful book which gave me great ideas on how to decorate our new home. Run...don't walk to your nearest book store and get a copy!

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Summary: The decorating book you've been looking for!
Review: For all you homeowners out there, this is the book that will transform your house into a home! What a beautiful book; the perfect gift for any person interested in lots of useful decorating ideas. The photography is gorgeous. Can't wait for your next book, Ms. Dunne !! Thanks to you, my house looks and feels a lot more interesting now!

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Summary: Truly Inspiring!
Review: I just finished reading this book, and am SO glad I bought it! It's full of wonderful common-sense ideas that make total sense and don't cost big bucks. I am now really inspired (and excited) to try some of the ideas in my own home -- and because I'm sure I didn't pick up all the great information the first time, I'll be reading this again...and again...and again. A SUPER investment!! So glad this book is out there!

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Summary: The quintessential guide to interior design. It's nifty!
Review: I thought I had pretty good taste when it comes to spiffing up the ol' homestead. Catherine Bailly Dunne showed me how hopelessly inept I really am. Her sense of style is a force unto itself. Colors and textures come alive with her inventive, yet simple flourishes. This book is ideal for beautifying any home, from a one-bedroom rathole to a multi-gabled country estate. Hats off to the author. Catherine, you've really dunne it this time!

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Summary: This book is horribly designed (no pun intended)
Review: I'm not sure who this is suited for. I think Martha can give you bettter, easier and cheaper tips. I did like Bill Phillips, though.

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Summary: This book is for lovers of clutter.
Review: If you think every single thing in your house should be textured, patterned, fringed, ruffled, flowered, mirrored, distressed, overstuffed, and multi-colored, you will love this book. Otherwise, you won't.

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Summary: Inspiring!
Review: Interior Designing for All Five Senses has changed the way I decorate my house. It was previously designed to please the eye; and somehow this did not have the right feel. Adding texture, sound, smell and yes, taste, has truly transformed my house into a home. Dunne, you are an inspiring decorator!!

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Summary: I wish I could rate this with more than 5 stars...
Review: It's like going to the psychiatrist! I'm only half way through -- and I can't wait to design my home "to mirror my creative soul!" Catherine Bailly Dunne is so much more interesting than Martha Stewart. Move over, Martha -- she's younger, smarter, and cuter!

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Summary: A Fresh Perspective
Review: This book makes you look at ALL the ways in which you make your home comfortable. It definitely does NOT advocate clutter, or that everything should be textured - it specifically talks about balancing textures. Perhaps some of the photos seem a little fussy, but this isn't about replicating the photos. It's the kind of book that you use to inspire you, not to follow step-by-step projects. The section on touch makes me yearn for silks and wicker and nubbly cottons around me. The section on scent gave me the nudge I needed to buy a rose-scented sachet I've been thinking of buying for ages - and it's beautiful to sit at my computer and smell that. The section on hearing made me realise how much I enjoy hearing my neighbour's windchimes on breezy days - perhaps that's something I shall be looking into next. An inspiring book to pick up and leaf through... to make you realise that decorating isn't just about how your home looks. Any showhome can LOOK good, but it's the ones which feel and smell and sound good which will really attract your attention!

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Summary: A REFRESHINGLY DIFFERENT DECORATING BOOK
Review: This is a wonderful book and handles decorating your home from a refreshing perspective. Decorating should not be just about the way the sofa looks next to the fireplace, but also how you feel when you touch the fabric, how the color of the room motivates you or relaxes you, even how the house smells, how the whole effects your comfort level. Our homes are our refuge from the outside world and should be very personal and unique to ourselves. Those who do not understand this concept should get one of Martha Stewart's insipid books. This book has taught me to look at my home as a reflection of myself. Just as I do not dress to please others, from now on I will decorate my home to please only me. New home owners out there, buy this book now!