Sleeping Spaces: Designs for Rest and Renewal - Hardcover

Skolnik, Lisa

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9781564966223: Sleeping Spaces: Designs for Rest and Renewal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1564966224 ISBN 13: 9781564966223

Publisher: Rockport Pub, 2000

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Finally, a book devoted to the place where we spend one third of our life: sleeping spaces. This book offers a collection of interiors designed for retreats conducive to sleep, rest, meditation, relaxation, and peace. Photos of bedrooms, living rooms, studios, lofts, family rooms, porches, decks, and gazebos illustrate how designers and homeowners create interior and exterior sleeping spaces. Crisp prose accompanied by sumptuous photographs explains how to use color and texture to create a soothing ambiance, and includes pointers on choosing and placing furnishing that will supplement the mood of comfort and serenity.

This book offers beautiful designs for naps and siestas, dreams, relaxation, and nighttime sleep. It includes sleep secrets on using color, texture, lighting, and furnishings to create a restful space.

Whether your aim is to design an intimate corner or enhance your entire surroundings, Sleeping Spaces shows how to decorate and style any interior meant for peace and slumber that is both ethereal and practical.

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About the Author:

Lisa Skolnik is a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune on design, entertaining, style, and family issues, and a city editor for Metropolitan Home magazine. Her work has also appeared in such publications as Metropolitan Home magazine, Interiors magazine, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Fodor’s Chicago guidebook and more. She is the author of fourteen books on design.

Skolnik lives and works in Chicago, where she has plenty of first-hand experience with storage issues thanks to the piles of possessions she has accrued with the help of her husband, Howard, and four children, Caroline, Sasha, Anastasia, and Theodora.

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The bed, once the most private place in a home, now goes public, thanks to the insight of design-journalist Skolnik. The text serves as the backdrop for some rather special sleeping spots, and provides tips and data not to snooze over. Most of the pretty pictures reflect an uncluttered, serene ambience in whites and pastels, with an occasional touch of wooden tones and black. The hints about sleep and decorating are somewhat commonplace; the notes about our biological needs to nap and the spread of insomnia have been well documented in other media. Great at inspiring design ideas to dream about. Barbara Jacobs
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