Design
Packed with a dozen examples, ‘The Little Book of Living Small’ is full of tiny home cleverness.
“Why live in a drab world, when you can fill your room with the colors of a summer garden?” -Dorothy Draper
Saturated hues and bold statements are eye-catching online and in-person. It’s not a personal interior design choice for the faint of heart. It takes confidence and a love of high-energy style to select an oversized floral wallpaper with a dark background.
“The reason that an old building is interesting is because it has evolved over time. You got the different layers from the different periods. There is a danger here that if you take out all of the later stuff that you don’t like you’re going to be sort of falsifying history,” says Marianne Suhr during one episode.
Falling in love with a chandelier that goes with a design mojo can make it harder to move on when the chandelier doesn’t quite meet the practical requirements of the space. It’s important to think about the practical requirements first, so that you don’t fall in love with a fixture that won’t work.
