House of Belief: Creating Your Own Personal Style

by Kelee Katillac

Book Overview

House of Belief incorporate beliefs, values, goals, and dreams into a more meaningful style. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879059516
• ISBN13: 9780879059514
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.8" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Is your house a reflection of what you believe?

Our homes should be reflections of our beliefs and who we really are rather than collections of mass-marketed, trendy items. Having our beliefs around us incorporated in to our interiors: personal mottoes on walls, embroidered into pillows, or painted onto chairs; portraits of those who inspire us; handmade quilts, pottery, or oil paintings--these are all the things that affirm who we are and who we want to be. If we see our beliefs and dreams in front of us on a daily basis, it is easier to manifest them.This book demonstrates how we all have the tools to build our own houses of belief. It does not require special talent for interior design, just a strong desire to express our individuality and to make our homes havens that uplift our hearts and minds.

Read, Create and BELIEVE!

House of Belief : Creating Your Own Personal Style is a dynamic tool to be utilized by all who strive to embelish their environments with tokens of their soul. Kelee teaches her readers to look deep inside themselves to seek out their own personal style and encourages her reader's own creative self expression. By adapting basic interior design theory and spirituality... one's own beliefs, goals & dreams... HOB promotes individuality and empowerment in it's readers. The gorgeous photography and contemporary design of the book makes it a fabulous asset to any coffee table but I would encourage everyone to read, create and BELIEVE!

soulful textbook of introspective creativity...

House of Belief is the key to the most wonderful self-exploratory adventure you will ever embark on. To unlock the door, and look into our hearts and acknowledge that we are all creative. We in our own personal media are, in fact, artists. Art can be baking a cake, planting a garden, working on a car, or yes, painting a landscape. That is, art is where you find it and it is within.House of Belief is a provocative look and a profound essay on one woman's realization that creativity can truly make you free. A heartfelt, step by step, guide into the soul of individual creativity written by someone who has, as they say, been there. From the "trailer house" to the New York desigh firm, she seems to have traveled that liberating road. Kelee's realization of what is truly real is as enlightening as is the honesty and straight forward approach she takes toward Spirit and the human desire to make our surroundings a reflection of our individual spirit and comfort consiousness.Chapter by chapter and life by life the true meaning of conscious creativity is explored as each project is studied and how these actions of physical creativity affect the individual lives of the participants. Each story is a ritual of belief and a testimony to the truth that we are all creative and we should feel free and good to express our personal style.What a wonderful feeling to be told that we are creative and that we can express what is in our heart and in our soul. We can take control of our surroundings and project what has been hidden within us. Perhaps reach back in time to a dream we had long ago and make it come true through the ideas and principles of our own House of Belief.The projects are real and the people are real. Get ready for a glance into a wonderful world where everyone is a creative being, creativity and self-belief reborn, a true original look into a world of self-expression and self-created beauty that renews the spirit and warms the heart.140 pages of beautiful color photographs and inspiring text that will change the way you think and awaken your consciousness to the simple things that you overlook in your current daily life."A must read for anyone in the Trade". If you are an Interior Designer, Architect or Decorator get ready to do some serious soul searching. Are you true to what you feel in your heart and soul? Or are you just spoon feeding your clients the clich'e of the day?Buy it , borrow it, but read it...House of Belief...creating your personal style. The creative being you discover may be yourself.

Your home is your cocoon, so grow into a butterfly

Kelee Kadillac's work transcends decorating to embrace the art of living within your means, and through the expression of your inner beliefs. Faith Popcorn's prediction that Americans would cocoon in the 1990's seems to have matured into a desire for artistic expression that moves beyond creating home environments that look like a certain style. Kelee suggests that there are no right answers except the ones we decide to apply to our homes, and thus they can become the medium to express highly personal, fun, elegant, or funky tastes that comfort us and bring joy to our lives. I look for wonder and small surprises in everything I see, and after reading Kelee's book, I felt that my purple walls and lime green ceilings were just fine. That feeling of happiness cheers me all day, and, we all need lots of cheer in our lives. Try this book, not to see how to duplicate the look, but to see how expressing the look you dream in your own heart may just lead you to a refreshing metamorphosis in your definition of style.

Belief-based Design

Kelee Katillac's "House of Belief" is an inspiring journey that challenges our preconceived notions of interior design. In lilting prose, and with gorgeous photographs to illustrate her views, Ms. Katillac tells us we should look within ourselves before we decorate our external environments. What we believe, value and dream about, she says, should be reflected in our homes; and not manufactured, assembly-line furnishings and decorations that say nothing about who we are. What an uplifting, affirming point of view in a world that robs us of the human and the personal in so many ways! I love this book, and think it will resonate with many people.