recently i started collecting interior style, design and decorating books. i got a copy of domino for christmas a few years ago and the obsession began. the first step is admitting you have a problem right? it started slowly at first, a design book here, a design book there. now i have a few healthy stacks all around our bedroom. it's usually what i pick up for my bedtime reading, even though i'm in the middle of reading two other books. and although i've read each one of these books many ... many ... many times, with the exception of one, i always seem to find something interesting or new. perhaps that's why i feel the need to collect more. so i will have an endless supply of inspiration at my finger tips. or ... i'm just slowly becoming a hoarder.
way back in 2011, when we decided to go through the process of building a house again we decided to consult some design reference material. we had read somewhere or someone had told us that it was a good idea to do so when you were about to build a new house. i always take good advice, except when i take bad advice. so many of the ideas we used in our current home were a result of gathering inspiration from interior design books we signed out of the library. perhaps this is where the obsession started? we began seeing the things we could do in our own home in a totally different way. it didn't have to be the way the builder wanted to do it. crazy i know. the point is, i love being able to flip through my own
little medium sized collection of books when i approach a client project or a space in my own home. not to re-create the same space but to gather inspiration to create my own.
so .... based on all of that, here are a few of my a few of my favourite design reads from my not so little, and not so big, library.
