Forget the rules and transform your home without doing a full renovation using your own brilliant and creative ideas from the simple and intuitive methods of Free Style.
Creating the perfect home design comes down to unlocking your own personal style and designing a home that reflects it. Designer and artist Liz Kamarul has always believed this, and in Free Style she shares her methods for creating uniquely beautiful homes.
Rather than rules and checklists, Liz offers a different approach for home design. She asks readers to start with questions that can help them start the design process, including:
• What do you already love? You'll learn how to highlight specific colors, textures, and features so you can bring more of what you love into your space.
• What's the one thing you really don't like? Sometimes it's as easy as finding the biggest pain point and making it a positive. Elements that are unavoidable-like permanent fixtures you didn't choose or pesky cords hanging from electronics-can be transformed into eyecatching design elements that elevate your décor rather than becoming an eyesore.
• What do you already have? Stunning design doesn't have to be expensive, and Liz shares her tips and tricks for giving new life to the things you already own, whether that means shopping your home to give old things new life or creating a new style around existing fixtures.
With gorgeous photos of homes that put these methods into action, you'll be inspired to create your own unabashedly beautiful and personal space. Make mistakes, use materials in weird ways, work with what's around, and in the end you'll have a home that is amazingly and uniquely yours. Whether it's a rental or a forever home, a full redesign or a budget project, Free Style is your guide to designing a personalized home that you'll love living in. Liz Kamarul is a follow-no-rules, go-with-your-gut, New Orleans-based designer and muralist. She's been featured in publications and on websites like Dwell, Design Milk, Coveteur, Apartment Therapy, Better Homes and Gardens, The Jungalow, Architectural Digest's Get Clever, Domino, and more.
