Your Best Home: 5 spaces x 5 design steps = a better life

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This ‘manual for a better life’  is all about getting back to the basics of good shelter. It’s a guide to help you apply and optimise the five fundamental factors in home design – space, air, light, view and sound – to the five most common spaces in all our homes – entry, living area, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. In engaging, informed and accessible text supported by stunning photography, practising architect Joe Snell shows how to get the fundamentals right in order to lead a fulfilling, healthy and happy life in your home. Your spaces will provide renewed inspiration and your styling and accessories will have meaning and substance.

Your Best Home provides the tools and information for you to affect positive change in your own living environment, at your own pace, and within a budget.

From the Publisher

In this book I apply the 5 design steps to the 5 most important rooms of your home, whether that home is a one-bedroom apartment or an 18-bedroom mansion. You can implement the steps in your home today, as part of a renovation tomorrow, or as a vision of your new dream build of the future. By following them you will be able to make the important changes necessary to create the bones of a wonderful home.

Room 1 : Entry Room 2 : Living room Room 3 : Kitchen Room 4 : Bedroom Room 5 : Bathroom

The 5X5 Premise

5 Steps X 5 Rooms

For a better life at home, the 5 design steps need to be followed – otherwise your styling, color and cushions end up just papering over the cracks.

Once you have the 5 design steps right, the decisions and choices you make in styling, color and cushions will not only be better, but also easier.

A home that has your styling, color and cushions, built on the strong foundations of the 5 design steps will be the best it can be, and can give you and your family a better life.

Step 1: Space design and plan your space in 3D Step 2: Light harness this to enlighten your home Step 3: Air control and direct the flow of air through your home Step 4: Sound tune your home to sound like the home you want it to be Step 5: View capture and frame the views around and within your home

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Murdoch Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 11, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1743369166
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1743369166
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.52 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.63 x 1 x 10 inches
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