![]() ![]() These are all the new titles that are on my wishlist…ġ. From decluttering and making more mindful habits, to bringing nature inside and growing your own fruit and vegetables, they offer simple tips for creating a more thoughtful home designed around both your values and your wellbeing. These beautiful tomes and practical guides offer everything you need to know about living mindfully and consciously. So here’s a round up of 15 of the best new interior design books for 2020 – with a focus on simplicity and sustainability in the home. More and more, we’re all looking to curate our own sanctuary away from the stresses of modern living and build a more meaningful life doing what we love. There’s definitely a theme going on – concerned with how we can create a home and lifestyle that is both healthier for ourselves and our planet. ![]() Proving that print isn’t dead yet, publishing houses have a host of new reads and inspirational volumes for our coffee tables and bookshelves. ![]() It’s almost Spring, which means there’s lots of exciting new interior design books coming out at the moment. London’s best interiors bloggers, Ideal Home, February 2017 Inspiration worth following: four Instagrammers to follow, Grazia magazine, April 2019 Top 10 UK Interior Design Blogs, Vuelio, September 2018 and 2019 With a background in architecture, Cate also works with homeowners to bring calm and clarity to their interior spaces, with simple solutions that can evolve with them – from full makeovers to furniture sourcing.Ĭ is your design resource for calm, simple interiors with a focus on sustainability and soul #thesimpleeveryday An introvert through and through, Cate is fascinated with how our homes can become our inner sanctuaries, soothing our souls and uplifting our wellbeing.Ĭate has been named one of London’s best interior bloggers (Vuelio 2018 & 2019 and Ideal Home magazine) and has been featured in The Times, Grazia, House Beautiful, Enki magazine, Elle Decoration Denmark and Apartment Therapy. She set up her blog in 2011, sharing simple design for everyday living. Wood is good, my friends.Cate St Hill is an interiors writer, stylist and designer based in London. If I take the wood elements out of the shelves I instantly feel like it’s too stuffy. It adds texture, interest and an element of effortlessness. Wood textures soften the contrast between the brass and the white. I was able to essentially copy and paste them onto multiple shelves and create additional cohesion. My husband literally sawed them in half for me and it doubled my count. I loved their color and texture so much I didn’t want to ditch them. I found these amazing dough bowls, but only a few and they were too deep for the shelves and stuck out several inches. This was something I discovered simply out of lack of resources. It’s always about finding a balance between height, size, color and texture. I highly recommend starting with your largest items first and spreading those pieces evenly throughout the shelves so you have visual anchors. Painting a few pieces I already owned with a similar gold actually helped make everything feel a bit more cohesive. I can’t tell you how many of those gold and brass items are actually silver. I really shopped our house for these shelves. I had several friends recommend wrapping the books in craft paper, but I don’t think anyone realizes how incredibly lazy I can be sometimes. I just made sure to put a fully white book on the end to hide the random spines that were rear facing. I finally just started searching for neutral books with neutral pages and flipped the spine to the back. I searched and searched for perfectly white books with gold type on the spine and found very few. Save yourself the headache and flip your books so the pages show. I stuck to 1 color (gold/brass) and 2 textures - a light oak (almost drift wood) texture and the neutral creamy page texture from the books. ![]() These shelves are visible from several vantage points in our home, so I didn’t want them to overwhelm our entry or living room views. This was the magic formula that helped visually balance our built-ins. They are kind of my happy, minimalist mistake. I never really got around to adding much more than a few texture combos. Plan B was to find one focal piece per shelf and play with placement. But I had a really difficult time tracking down used books with white covers, so I had to pivot. I wanted to fill the entire builtins with just hundreds of neutral books. Truth is, I’m not confident these shelves are actually done. ![]()
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