Home Style
Understand your true style and how to implement it
Published on 7. October 2025
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-84091-977-6 (ISBN)
Description
A step-by-step, room-by-room, moodboard-by-moodboard guide to creating a home that reflects your personal style and the way you want to live - from acclaimed Australian-born stylist and online interiors tutor, Lucy Gough.
We all want to live in a home that reflects our personalities, our experiences, our life's journey. But if we are not a professional decorator or stylist, where do we start?
In this inspirational and helpful handbook, interiors stylist and tutor Lucy Gough will teach you how to understand your true style and how to implement it in how you decorate your living space. Your dream home needn't be a spacious, architecturally designed building - it could be small or rented.
With this book you'll discover what YOU love and what makes YOU happy so you can surround yourself with the colors, furniture, furnishings and finishing touches that inspire you. For Lucy, every good room scheme starts with a moodboard - she explains how to create your own and features them throughout the book to explore the elements within a series of home case studies and why they work.
The book includes:
- How to translate magazine imagery into your home
- How to create impact with art, plants and accessories
- How to style your kitchen, living room, bathroom, home office and hallway
- Key inspirational case studies
We all want to live in a home that reflects our personalities, our experiences, our life's journey. But if we are not a professional decorator or stylist, where do we start?
In this inspirational and helpful handbook, interiors stylist and tutor Lucy Gough will teach you how to understand your true style and how to implement it in how you decorate your living space. Your dream home needn't be a spacious, architecturally designed building - it could be small or rented.
With this book you'll discover what YOU love and what makes YOU happy so you can surround yourself with the colors, furniture, furnishings and finishing touches that inspire you. For Lucy, every good room scheme starts with a moodboard - she explains how to create your own and features them throughout the book to explore the elements within a series of home case studies and why they work.
The book includes:
- How to translate magazine imagery into your home
- How to create impact with art, plants and accessories
- How to style your kitchen, living room, bathroom, home office and hallway
- Key inspirational case studies
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 258 mm
Width: 207 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1139 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84091-977-6 (9781840919776)
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Person
LUCY GOUGH is an Australian-born interior stylist who has lived and worked in London for the last 12 years, but is currently based in New South Wales.
Her work has appeared in leading magazines in both the UK and Australia, including Livingetc, Australian Home Beautiful , Homes & Gardens, YOU Magazine, The Local Project and Sunday Times Style. She has also collaborated with brands such as Dulux, John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, King Living, David Jones, Freedom, Eco Outdoor and Sleeping Duck among many others.
In April 2020 Lucy launched an online course 'How to become a professional interior stylist' on her website lucygoughstylist.com, followed by 'How to style your home like a magazine' and now has more than 2000 students - all have left 5-star reviews. Delivering workshops to groups of interiors enthusiasts and professionals is a particular favourite activity of Lucy's and these have included events for Heal's and Livingetc, plus teaching an online interiors workshop on the newly launched Times+ platform.
Her first book, The Home Style Handbook, was published by MItchell Beazley in 2023 and has sold more than 40,000 copies across markets.
@STYLE_BY_LUCY
Her work has appeared in leading magazines in both the UK and Australia, including Livingetc, Australian Home Beautiful , Homes & Gardens, YOU Magazine, The Local Project and Sunday Times Style. She has also collaborated with brands such as Dulux, John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, King Living, David Jones, Freedom, Eco Outdoor and Sleeping Duck among many others.
In April 2020 Lucy launched an online course 'How to become a professional interior stylist' on her website lucygoughstylist.com, followed by 'How to style your home like a magazine' and now has more than 2000 students - all have left 5-star reviews. Delivering workshops to groups of interiors enthusiasts and professionals is a particular favourite activity of Lucy's and these have included events for Heal's and Livingetc, plus teaching an online interiors workshop on the newly launched Times+ platform.
Her first book, The Home Style Handbook, was published by MItchell Beazley in 2023 and has sold more than 40,000 copies across markets.
@STYLE_BY_LUCY