Breaking the Rules: Home Style for the Way We Live Today

by Christy Ferer

In this exuberantly designed book, network morning show regular Ferer shows a range of new perspectives on such design considerations as color, texture, light, furniture, and space. Breaking the Rules celebrates a fresh, liberating, and surprisingly practical new revolution in home decor. Photos.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684866099
• ISBN13: 9780684866093
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.8" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

A CALL TO CREATIVITY!

"Breaking the Rules" is not about anarchy, although it is a rebellion of sorts. It is a call to creativity in decorating our homes in a way that breaks the stagnant bonds of outdated rules and conventionality. "Don't be afraid to let your home reflect your dynamic personality", suggests authors Palazzo and Ferer, two very talented ladies. The book explores use of color, textures, patterns and encourages us to enhance all of those neglected spaces in the house. Mixing styles of furniture is encouraged. So is the use of garden furniture indoors, and overstuffed cushions and pillows. So open the windows, let the light come in, give your home a fresh new look - one that reflects your beauty, your inner qualities and all those fantastic decorating ideas you have been afraid to try. An excellent guidebook.

Express Yourself

It's called Breaking the Rules but what's interesting about this decorating book is that it explains the elements of design first so your get an education in style even while you are being encouraged to flaunt convention. Beautiful, colorful examples abound!

No Guts, No Glamour Decor

Oh,my! "Breaking the Rules: Home Style For the Way We Live Today" is one visually stunning book."Breaking the Rules" doesn't just rock, it roars.Author Christy Ferrer has taken those stodgly ol' decorating rules and chucked 'em out the well-appointed window.Every page of this book is gorgeous and delightfully iconoclastic.Featured items range from a mink and lucite stool, to an artfully displayed collection of gloves (which once belonged to the Duchess of Windsor),to Bette Midler's stove.These interiors are a fun, funky, ecclectic and joyfully eccentric mix.This is not the typical decorating book that serves up a style for you to copy as if you were some kind of decorating drone. "Breaking the Rules" is an inspirational guide for letting your creativity emerge, maybe even explode.Do you like shocking pink and lime green? Go ahead. Crack open a couple of paint cans and redo that boring living room!This book not only gives you permission, but may even serve as your muse. And, finally, bravely, in the face of all that is accepted and personified as "good taste", author Ferrer even dares us to: "Think plastic." This is truly "no guts, no glamour" decor.What a spirited and breath-taking piece of work! Christy Ferrer(with Risa Palazzo) has put together one heck-of-a book.I dare you to read it!