Susie Coelho's Everyday Styling : Easy Tips for Home, Garden, and Entertaining

By Susie Coelho

Book Overview

Susie Coelho's down-to-earth personality and practical smarts about bringing beauty to life have won her millions of fans. Now, in Susie Coelho's Everyday Styling, she offers a liberating plan for infusing personal style into readers' home and gardens, often without spending a dime. Susie's credo is that the most appealing spaces are usually not the most expensive or decorator-correct. Homes develop authentic personal styles the same way people do -- through creativity, change, and the process of living. But how do you develop your own sense of style? Susie will show you how to find it, define it, and put it to use. The secret is the Style File: She'll help you create a collection of looks you love (pictures, swatches of material, scribbled ideas), organized as a practical reference for every space in your home and garden. As you discover common threads and new possibilities, your own vision will start to take shape. But do you have the time or the resources to bring this vision to life? As a wife and mother juggling the demands of family, career, social life, and community, Susie understands the obstacles -- and how to work around them. The aim is to start with what you already have, then rearrange, refresh, and add unexpected or missing elements to create a new look all your own. It's not formal decorating or landscaping according to someone else's rules; it's a personal process that Susie calls un-decorating -- or everyday styling. Filled with gorgeous color photographs, styling how-to's and tips, and lots of inspiration, Everyday Styling helps readers on any budget wake up their homes and gardens while putting their unique thumbprint on everything they do. You'll beable to create a whole new look and mood -- using pillows or fabric to jazz up old furniture, displaying and highlighting favorite possessions, or redoing a living room in three different ways -- all in one day. Moving outside, Susie offers tips on styling entrances according to the season, creating fantastic outdoor rooms for entertaining or play, and turning your yard into a garden of earthly delights. At every step, she helps you develop and draw on your most important resources -- your own imagination, creativity, and passion for living. Whether you're entertaining friends, hankering for a new perspective on that same old bedroom, or just hoping to perk up your patio with colorful plants, Susie Coelho's Everyday Styling shows how easy it is to keep you home and garden looking and feeling fresh and alive every day. Her message is simple but universal: Keep creating. That's the joy of life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743219309
• ISBN13: 9780743219303
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.4" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Susie Coelho's Everyday Styling was effective immediately!

Even before bringing my copy of Everyday Styling back from the book-signing, I had mentally redecorated my living room. Uncannily, when I arrived home, my thirteen year old son was already rearranging the furniture the way I envisioned. (This without a word from me) Now that's a powerful book! It's also a delightful book to look at: cheerful, colorful and uplifting. The book has a great personality--inviting, encouraging, fun-loving and respectful of the reader's pocketbook! The book is the perfect housewarming or birthday gift. I'm looking forward to using many ideas from the book. The suggestions don't require much effort. It's all about having fun expressing your own sense of aesthetics and style--not seriously or self consciously, but in a light hearted manner.

Great ideas for decorating on a budget!

I was thrilled with this book...unlike the Martha Stewart-types who can tell you how to make a wreath if you spend $100, Susie emphasizes finding articles in your own home and how to use them creatively. I was surprised and pleased that the emphasis in the book was not on spending a lot, but on creating a personal style, and how to create a "style file" to help you along the way. Her style ideas are clean, colorful, and pretty easy! I look forward to her next book.

Redecorating made EASY!

I just loved this book. It completely banished this impression I've had that it takes loads of money and time to have a nicely decorated home, or studio apartment!!!! I have a LOT of stuff boxed up that I thought I'd never use again and was considering tossing. Now that I've been enlightened I have a plethora of options-- not even at a store, but right in my own closet! And it's not heavy reading at all. It's simple and to the point! Thank you very much Susie for opening my eyes!

What a wonderful, helpful book!

I got tons of great decorating ideas from this book. I like the way she encourages people to use what they have instead of spending lots of money getting all new things. This book shows you how anyone can make their home special on any budget. The pictures were beautiful and the recipes were a nice touch.

Creative & Inexpensive tips for an Affluent Lifestyle!

Susie's creative tips can transform the most ordinary home, garden, or tea party into a regal experience. And amazingly, she makes it look like fun! The book is replete with excellent pictures that makes learning and using her tips practical for even the most sytle-challenged among us, and her super-model good looks does not detract, but actually enhances the reader's comprehension and usability of her ideas. A must-have book for styling refererence, and one that I will refer to again and again.