No Compromise Decorating

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Summary: As good as her last book
Review: I have been waiting for this book since her last one came out. What took so long? This is just great. I feel like Lynette is talking directly to me. She writes about the decorating process but relates it to life, in general. What she has to say about how we all make compromises and end up with a home that doesn't seem to fit us rings so true. The photos in this book are gorgeous. I also like her real home makeovers. They are so obviously real homes. It's cool that Lynette went into real homes and did redecorating to prove that anyone can have a home that reflects the way they really want to live. This is a great book. There's nothing else like it and no one else like Lynette.

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Summary: Just got my copy! Highly recommend
Review: I stumbled across this book on amazon and had to have it. I just got it yesterday, and I've already read a lot of it. I love Lynette Jennings' attitude, and I feel she's writing directly to me. The book is very "empowering." In the book, Lynette also re-does rooms in the homes of real people. Boy, do those homes look real. I liked seeing that. Highly recommend.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: I'm giving this book the highest rating because Lynette Jennings consistently puts as much effort into her text as she does the beautiful pictures. She writes in a way that is intimate, comforting, and surprisingly informative: she is not interested in encouraging people to adopt design ideas simply for their popularity. Rather, she expresses strongly held convictions that design and decorating are tools by which one can create an environment that is deeply personal and reflective of one's individual tastes.

Reading this book made me aware of many decisions I have made about decorating that have been influenced by designers who are more concerned with being "edgy" or "correct" than what is genuinely pleasing to the homeowner. I have often imagined what other people will think upon entering my home and this is wrong. Your home has to be satisfying to you: for example, a black & white print may be "correct" in a particular scenario and many of us succumb to what the designers dictate which has something to do with a vague notion of "taste". Ultimately, if you don't like black & white prints, if they leave you cold, what would be the point in hanging one on your wall? Just to impress people, to show people that you have your finger on the pulse of what's "in" ?
Lynette Jennings is bold in her colour choices, uses big pieces in small rooms, and basically breaks so many "rules" that many of us have come to accept as givens. This is an excellent book.