Secondhand Interior Design Bargain Book Box SP4246

Secondhand Interior Design Bargain Book Box SP4246

Nine practical decorating books, all illustrated: Mary Gilliatt’s Short Cuts to Great Decorating, Using Australian Colour from Janne Faulkner of Nexus Designs, Stephen Crafti on small spaces, John Wheatman’s Meditations on Design, House Beautiful on lighting and 77 Habits of Highly Creative Interior Designers. Books to renovate from, with two Australian titles written for Australian light.

1. Interiors in Color — An inspirational guidebook for colour at home, room by room, from Rockport. Useful for seeing a strong colour on a whole wall before you commit to it.
2. Using Australian Colour — Janne Faulkner & Harley Anstee — The founder of Melbourne’s Nexus Designs on palettes drawn from the Australian landscape, and why colours chosen under European light look wrong here. The one book in the box you can’t get an overseas equivalent of.
3. Short Cuts to Great Decorating — Mary Gilliatt — Simple solutions to classic problems: low ceilings, dark halls, awkward windows. Gilliatt wrote more than forty books on interiors, and this is her quick-fix one.
4. Country Living Easy Transformations: Living Rooms — Coleen Cahill — Before-and-after living rooms from the magazine, done with paint, slipcovers and rearranged furniture more than money.
5. House Beautiful Lighting — Judith Gura — Inspiring ideas for lighting effects from simple to spectacular, by a design historian. Lighting is the thing most rooms get wrong, and this explains why.
6. Home Styling: Contrasts in Design — Mike Strohl — Old against new, rough against smooth: a stylist’s book on mixing, with a herringbone floor on the cover.
7. Meditations on Design — John Wheatman — Reinventing your home with style and simplicity, from the San Francisco designer. His rule is to edit what you already own before buying anything, and the rooms prove it.
8. Making More of Small Spaces — Stephen Crafti — Apartments, terraces and warehouse conversions that feel bigger than they are, from the Melbourne architecture writer. Images Publishing.
9. 77 Habits of Highly Creative Interior Designers — Sarah Lynch — Insider secrets from the world’s top design professionals, one habit to a spread. Good for dipping into.