3 Great Design Books for Spring

It has been a crazy busy week around here and I haven’t gotten much cooking done. Over the weekend we were helping my in-laws move and spent most of the time packing up the attic. It was exhausting! Anyway, the one thing I have been doing, when putting my feet up at the end of a long day, is flipping through some new design books I got this spring. They are my new favorites! Design, architecture, and style have always been interests of mine. More like side interests, things I enjoy but am not necessarily an expert at. As my husband will attest, I could spend hours rearranging our furniture, building tablescapes, and styling my coffee table. My eye is still a work in progress, but I am getting there. While I tinker away I am always looks for new ideas and these books have really been inspiring me lately. Take a look:

1) Designers at Home: Personal Reflections on Stylish Living by Ronda Rice Carmen. This awesome book is a true peek under the tent of designers in their own home. There is not better way to learn tricks of the trade than seeing how the pros do it!

2) How to Read Fashion: A Crash Course in Styles, Designers, and Couture by Fiona Ffoulkes. While not a typical design book, this fashion book details a lot of the basics of design in general. I love the fresh look at the basics and the broad view of the evolution of fashion throughout the past two centuries.

3) Heirloom Modern: Homes filled with objects bought, bequeathed, beloved, and worth handing down by Hollister and Porter Hovey. This cool book features rooms filled with antiquities and heirloom objects and shows how they have been incorporated into a modern decor. It definitely gives me a few ideas for what I would like to do with some of my family heirlooms!