Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave – The #1 NYT Bestseller for Designing Your Authentic Home Style

Great book, love Joanna Gains’ approach. Bought used and amazing fast delivery

Bought it as a present and might buy one for myself as it looks great!

A fantastic and beautifully presented book. If you're a fan of the US based TV show Fixer Upper, starring the author and her husband and want to get that particular look then this is the book for you. Broken down into individual chapters, covering entrance halls to bathrooms and everything in between this book had hundreds of quality photographs to inspire and entertain. We’ve even left it on the coffee table for visitors to browse, it really is that good.

I just loved the show and the eye, these two have sign design. An interesting book to read, with lots of ideas to use in your own home. Would recommend

Gorgeous book to look, and very high quality printing and binding. The photos are lovely and the houses are stunning. The tone of the writing is charming and inspiring. There is perhaps not as much actual constructive and helpful information as I was hoping for, hence 4 rather than 5*, but a lovely book nonetheless.

I only knew a little about JG but I felt inspired to pick up this book. I love her taste even if it’s slightly different to mine. Her style is highly unique, distinctive and consistent. Little wonder that she’s so well liked and respected. Her writing is warm and generous. Loved it!

Even though the photography in this book is really what sells it - some great images of interiors for inspiration - it was the text which was thoroughly enjoyable, thoughtful and with practical information. There is a notes section and practical floor planning guide at the back of the book. An interior coffee table book which is also useful!

Really liked this book - lots of practical advice by room and lovely photos.

Rustic and modern, time ago I got a book for architects about this topic. As an architect I understood the originality of the concepts and the designes; but I noticed just one or two of the houses were really enjoyable homes. The rest were investments, a sort of contemporary museums for collections of modern art as inscrutable as the houses. I don't mean that architects have been taken away from beauty and happiness, or that some customers aren't looking for that type of houses; just that maybe in specialized books the emphasis is mostly in an architecture that albeit very professional is so inscrutable that only a formal education gets you to understand it, and not much of homes that are meant to live an grow up and, most importantly, be happy. In this book Joanna Gaines indicate that she has not formal education in architecture, and nevertheless this is one of the books with highest standards in teaching and showing the principles of its interior design. There is an introduction of styles, of ways they can blend; there is real life experience along the text whose absence in architectural books is a great sin in my opinion. I mean this because architecture doesn't make much sense in the academic system of colleges and universities, where it is forgotten that it is mainly a craft. You can learn all the laws about it, all the design principles, but as a craft you have to practice it, see with your eyes how the materials and colors and areas of spaces react to people living there and measure its success from that aspect, and that takes time and years. The work of Joanna Gaines and her husband has those years to show us what can be done. After finishing it I feel encouraged to making the place I live a more beautiful one, a more useful one, and one with my own identity. One last observation about the book is the professionalism in it as an object. In the end each house is credited to the team of architects and designers that collaborated, in each chapter each design choice and material is explained and easier to digest thanks to the didactic categorization. Beyond the authors most of the photographers and editorial staff are women, I don't know if by choice or design, but I am happy for this because while I read the book I was curious by the excellent formatting of the book and the photographic work: they match perfectly the writing of the author as if she had made those parts as well. I am not sure if that feeling would exist if the staff had been different, I suspect not.

Now I know why this book was sold out for so long. Very practical and actually way thicker book than I expected.

Muy buenas imágenes. Buenas ideas. La única pega el idioma: inglés, aunque ya lo sabía.

Beautiful book, practical advice and well illustrated.

Muito bom, conteúdo bastante informativo.