Vern Yip's Design Wise: Your Smart Guide to a Beautiful Home

by Vern Yip

Overview

HGTV and Trading Spaces' trusted interior designer Vern Yip shares his favorite design secrets to creating living spaces that have flow, balance, and harmony — while opening his doors to show how he's made these principles work in his own beloved homes. This New York Times bestseller provides both the inspiration and the clear, essential guidelines you need to create a home that perfectly reflects you.

Have you ever wondered exactly how high to hang your artwork? How about the light fixture over your dining table? Do you know how to ideally size a rug for any room, or the best way to arrange your furniture? Beloved designer Vern Yip answers these questions, and more, by revealing the right formulas and measurements that can make any room feel just "right." And once you know these key design principles, you're free to confidently create a home that uniquely celebrates your needs and style. With gorgeous photos throughout, Vern Yip's Design Wise is a book you'll return to again and again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762459858
Publisher:	Running Press Book Publishers
Publication date:	09/13/2016
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	502,275
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Vern Yip has designed his way across America, having reconfigured countless homes during four season's on TLC's Trading Spaces, NBC's Home Intervention, his own HGTV shows Deserving Design with Vern Yip and HGTV's Urban Oasis, and through his private practice Vern Yip Designs in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been a beloved judge on eight seasons of HGTV Design Star as well on his own special, Live In Vern's House. He has a regular column in HGTV magazine and manages his own brand, Vern Yip Home, available at select retailers. He's also currently appearing on the reboot of TLC's Trading Spaces. Vern and his family divide their time between their homes in Atlanta, Manhattan, and Florida's Panhandle.

Editorial Reviews

“Enables novices to find their own aesthetic. His fans and those seeking basic design advice will find much to recommend.”
—Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW

“Jam-packed with helpful decorating advice… shares tips like how to pick the right-size sofa, how low pendants should hang, and pretty ways to arrange store-bought flowers.”
—HGTV Magazine

“Not just a coffee-table book filled with beautiful interiors, but a grab-and-go resource on what it takes to create timeless style at home.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Gives you the design formulas and principles you need to achieve that flawless je ne sais quoi in every room of your home. Plus, the beautiful images of his own homes are not to be missed.”
—Popsugar
Oprah.com

“Strategic secrets to creating an inviting living space.”
—Oprah.com

“Remarkably practical advice.”
—Atlanta magazine

From the Publisher

★ 09/15/2016
Yip, a featured designer HGTV Design Star and TLC's Trading Spaces, gives basic design principles as well as his own philosophy to enable novices to find their own aesthetic. He begins by describing the fundamentals of design with detailed measurements for placement of furniture, lighting fixtures, and the like with advice on window treatments, flooring, and finishes for every room of the house including outdoor spaces. Interspersed with these practicalities are creative ideas inspired by his work with clients and from his residences. He shows how to accommodate an active family and pets in stylish interiors with many color photographs of his homes in Atlanta, Manhattan, and seaside Florida. VERDICT Yip's fans and those seeking basic design advice will find much to recommend in this volume.

Library Journal