Home Design & Décor Books | Santa Barbara Public Library

1) Design a healthy home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

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"Simple, practical advice on how to design your home for health and happiness. With indoor air pollution now worse than ever, and more of us spending more time in our own homes, discover how to create calm, social and comfortable spaces by making small changes to every room. Design a Healthy Home breaks down the complex subject of sustainable, biophilic design into specific subjects, including lighting, air quality, acoustics, temperature, colour,...

2) Design the home you love: practical styling advice to make the most of your space

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Mayer, Lee

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"The founders of Havenly help you find your own style in this fresh and accessible guidebook to the complicated world of interior design"-- Provided by publisher.

3) Feels like home: relaxed interiors for a meaningful life

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Liess, Lauren

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The popular social media and TV star presents a collection of practical design ideas and case studies on a variety of different homes, including a beach cottage, a farmhouse, and a home in the woods, all exploring the emotional connection between home decoration and one's daily life.

4) Minimalista: your step-by-step guide to a better home, wardrobe, and life

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Gill, Shira

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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"The co-founders of Havenly help you find your own style in this fresh and accessible guidebook to the complicated world of interior design"-- Provided by publisher.

5) The new mindful home: and how to make it yours

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Thornhill, Joanna

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"We often think of mindfulness in relation to meditation, but our homes and interior design can play a big part in our emotional well-being. The New Mindful Home demystifies the links between body, mind and soul to explain how you can harness the power of mindfulness to help our homes support a more considered lifestyle. How do we create spaces that can calm and revives us? With the same practical attention to problem-solving as in her first book,...

6) The Home edit life: the no-guilt guide to owning what you want and organizing everything

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Shearer, Clea

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"The New York Times bestselling authors of The Home Edit show you how to contain the chaos and organize every aspect of your life, including hobbies and activities, work and office spaces, luggage and travel, and so much more"-- Provided by publisher.

7) House to home: designing your space for the way you live

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Dutta-Choudhury, Devi

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"A modern guide to home improvement that will help you create a dynamic, comfortable space that supports your life and the way you want to live"-- Provided by publisher.

8) Wild interiors: beautiful plants in beautiful spaces

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Carter, Hilton

9) Living Simply: A Teen Guide to Minimalism

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McGraw, Sally

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eBook, Kindle

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Twenty-first-century minimalism is an increasingly mainstream response to global environmental crises such as climate change, the garbage glut, fast fashion, and other manifestations of the harmful impact of consumerism. Originally founded in the art world in the decades after World War II, minimalism has evolved into an Earth-friendly lifestyle focusing on the three R's (reducing, recycling, and reusing) and on simplifying individual needs to reduce...

10) At home in Joshua Tree: a field guide to desert living

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Combs, Sara

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"At Home in Joshua Tree offers a peek inside the captivating world of southern California's high-desert, with The Joshua Tree House founders Sara and Rich Combs bringing readers into their laid back, inviting world through mindful practices that enhance the everyday. Guided by nature and the cycles of the sun, this beautiful book offers an intentional, mindful way of living that combines the very best of the wellness movement and modern design to...

11) The gentle art of Swedish death cleaning: how to free yourself and your family from a lifetime of clutter

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Magnusson, Margareta (Artist)

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The Swedish Art of Living and Dying

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Margareta suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you'd ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children's art projects). Digging into her late husband's tool shed, and her own secret drawer of vices, Margareta introduces an element of fun to a potentially daunting task. Along the way readers get a glimpse into her life in Sweden, and also...

12) Home sweet maison: the French art of making a home

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Postel-Vinay, Danielle

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How do the French create the elusive and alluring sanctuaries they call home? This question long intrigued Danielle Postel-Vinay. Thanks to a chance encounter with a French expat in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and years of immersive research, she embarked on a quest to discover the secrets of the French home aesthetic. Experiencing first-hand la belle vie— the beautiful life— Postel-Vinay now shows everyone how to create their own French sanctuary,...

13) Hygge & West Home: design for a cozy life

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Coop, Christiana

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Tastemakers Christiana and Aimee of Hygge & West know that the key to making a house into a home is in the decorationwhether that means embracing natural elements, creating cozy spaces, making room for family, or finding your own personal charm in every space. Hygge & West Home offers a look into 20 covetable homes designed to promote feelings of coziness, companionship, and comfort, from an intimate apartment in San Francisco to a log cabin in Wyoming,...

14) Small space style: because you don't have to live large to live beautifully

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Morris, Whitney Leigh

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"Interior design maven Whitney Leigh Morris makes living in under 400 square feet look elegant and effortless--even with a husband, baby, and two Beagles in the mix. In her debut book, Whitney shares her ideas and practices for making any tiny space efficient and stylish--whether it's a rustic A-frame in the woods or a chic microapartment in the city. Featuring 300 tips for making the most of your little home, Small Space Style is the must-have, incredibly...

15) Living in Mexico

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Stoeltie, Barbara

16) Red tile style: America's Spanish revival architecture

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Gellner, Arrol

17) Private gardens of Santa Barbara: the art of outdoor living

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Grace, Margie

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"Private Gardens of Santa Barbara is an invitation into twenty-one distinctive private gardens: large estates, modest homes, and surf retreats run the gamut from sublime and naturalistic to bold and urban. What they have in common, however, is what makesthem truly great. These gardens are a response to the unique character of each site, the existing architecture, and the larger environment; and adapted to the lifestyle, personality, and practical...

18) American bungalow style

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Winter, Robert

19) Santa Barbara style

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Masson, Kathryn

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Book, Reference

20) Santa Barbara living

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Saeks, Diane Dorrans

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Book, Reference

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"Possessing the most summery, mild, seductive climate in the country, Santa Barbara has been an elegant and chic style destination since the turn of the last century, when wealthy East Coast families wintered there. Soon after, villas and estates were being built, designed by the finest architects and landscape designers. In recent years the Santa Barbara region continues to be an outpost of style and culture?now with many leading Hollywood producers,...