Product Description

More than 7 million readers of Marni Jamesons weekly home design column have already discovered how Jameson entertains and inspires, while imparting well-researched and personally validated DIY advice. Now, in her first-ever book on home improvement, she offers a compulsively readable, zanily humorous, yet also completely practical guide to a headache-free home makeover for everyone decorating a new house or updating an old one. Jameson has designed, built, and decorated three homes from the ground up. In The House Always Wins, she brings us along as she decorates, furnishes, and landscapes her current home. Though rooted in her own experience, this is no navel-gazing memoir. Rather, Jameson is like a favorite sister who has learned it all the hard way and is now here to prompt and inspire you to figure out your own personal style, make a design plan, and create your (almost) perfect dream home-one step at a time. With Jameson as our guide, we navigate through the seemingly endless maze of choices and decisions every home improver faces: wall color, flooring, cabinetry, window treatments, furniture, bargain hunting, home accessories, rugs, kids spaces, special purpose rooms (like the garage and guest, laundry, and mud rooms), landscaping, outdoor living spaces-and thats just to start. Along the way, Jameson injects insights into the relationships and realities that dog every home improvement project. She also pauses to share hard-won secrets and money-saving tips distilled from her own redecorating experience and from interviews with dozens of renowned home-design experts. For anyone dealing with budgets, time constraints, unreliable contractors, a cheap spouse, kids, and pets-and who would appreciate having someone to commiserate with about the unattainable perfection featured in glossy magazine spreads-The House Always Wins will comfort (it can always be worse), inspire (who knew?!), and be absolutely indispensable.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3048023 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.12" h x 6.37" w x 8.98" l, 1.30 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Review
"Marni Jameson chronicles, in her self-deprecating manner, the process of building, decorating and landscaping her Colorado dream home, one agonizing decision at a time. The book is a compelling mix of humorous anecdotes and useful information."--"Calgary Herald"

"This author...is smart, seasoned, savvy and unwilling to settle for anything less than 'just right.' In the end, the true test of a home-design book is whether it propels the reader to action. Jameson propelled me to stop midway through her book to rearrange my furniture. And I've got plans. Big plans."--"Los Angeles Times," 5/11/08

"By detailing real-life scenarios and experiences, Jameson shares her point of view in a humorous yet straightforward fashion... the funny interactions with her spouse, irritated neighbors and others provide enough color for you to keep turning the pages."--"Orlando Sentinel," 5/11/08