Open House
Reinventing Space for Simple Living
Published on 8. August 2017
176 pages
978-1-4236-4736-2 (ISBN)
Description
Transforming older homes into modern, functional, open spaces filled with natural light.
Authors Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen share ideas for remodeling older homes to create modern, open floor plans while sharing lessons learned along the way. Topics include tricks of seeing through cluttered, dark rooms to imagine an open floor plan and space filled with light; how to manage a renovation budget (ideas on where to shop, items to splurge on, where to save); and designing homes for simple family living.
Fans of HGTV and DIY Network home renovation shows will love this sweeping behind-the-scenes perspective on home transformations, written in a personal, intimate style, with humor and honesty.
Authors Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen share ideas for remodeling older homes to create modern, open floor plans while sharing lessons learned along the way. Topics include tricks of seeing through cluttered, dark rooms to imagine an open floor plan and space filled with light; how to manage a renovation budget (ideas on where to shop, items to splurge on, where to save); and designing homes for simple family living.
Fans of HGTV and DIY Network home renovation shows will love this sweeping behind-the-scenes perspective on home transformations, written in a personal, intimate style, with humor and honesty.
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08/2017
Gibbs M. Smith Inc
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Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen have been renovating homes for their family to live in for around thirty years. Some twenty-four houses later, they have a lot to share about remodeling interiors and revamping yardscapes. Pays and Bernsen live Los Angeles.
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Our Story
- Materials: Beverly Hills
- Bones: Green Farm, Surrey
- Space: Studio City
- Budget: Hollywood Hills
- Palette: Toluca Lake
- Simplicity: Sherman Oaks
- Comfort: Mas Maroc, France
- A Quick Recap
- In Closing
- Resources
- A Big Thank-You
