Personal space This book is unlike other interior books because it focuses on you as the most important factor in how you decorate your home.Personal space will enable you to explore and understand your taste in interior design. It encourages you to shake off preconceptions, clarify your instinctive preferences and discover new directions in decorating. It will encourage the faint-hearted first-time decorator and inspire even the most confident.The first part of the book, Define a Personal Space, is designed to help you explore your likes and dislikes, re-think long-held views and broaden your decorating horizons. It asks you to consider your preferences in various aspects of interior design, such as colour, texture, pattern and shape; and it asks you to think about such things as the effect on you of your external environment or the sort of building that might be a fantasy home. From your consideration of these topics you will be able to identify your relationship to six contemporary decorating looks and establish those with which you have the greatest affinity.The main part of the book, Create a Personal Space, shows you how to use these looks in your home; whether you wish to decorate your entire living space in one style sensibility or 'mix and match' themes, selecting different looks for different rooms. Lively and informed text discusses each sensibility's roots, the individuals who epitomize each sensibility and, importantly. Identifies, from the interior illustrated, those elements that can be incorporated into your own schemes to create a unified, personally satisfying home.Whether your choice is for pure, unfussy space or for rich collections of treasured objects, for adventurous use of colour or simple familiarity, in this book you will find ideas to inspire you and the confidence to follow your instinct.