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Top Ten Best-Selling Books for Home Furnishings Professionals

Posted by Maria Shayna Tzouvelekis | Fri, Feb 12, 2016 @ 07:00 AM

With trends constantly changing in the design and home furnishings industry, Amazon helps experts stay up to date with their most popular and top recommended reading lists. These Amazon "best-of-the-month" and/or New York Times "best sellers" are sure to inspire and educate. 

In the words of literary icon Dr. Seuss: 

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

 1. Home by Ellen DeGeneres

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World renowned comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has a knack for real estate and a passion for interior design. Home showcases each room in her current abode as well as seven of the many homes that she has owned in the past 25 years. Providing an in-depth look at her celebrity life style, this book is filled with beautiful photographs of home furnishings treasures and ideas for designers to replicate in their own home or business. "You don't have to have money to have good taste," says DeGeneres.

 


2. Elements of Style: Designing a Home & a Life by Erin Gates 

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With more than 10 years of personal and professional interior design experience, author Erin Gates offers advice and inspiration for finding a housing style that fits your personality. Author of the popular housing blog Elements of Style, Gates weighs in on the power of self expression through design in her New York Times bestselling book by the same name. This book is filled with personal and funny anecdotes, making it a colorful decorating guide and a short story. Gates has even included an extensive resource and shopping guide for new and experienced designers. 

  


 

3. The Inspired Room: Simple Ideas to Love the Home You Have by Melissa Michaels 

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Author Melissa Michaels built her reputable voice on her popular blog, The Inspired Room, which was voted readers' favorite decorating blog by Better Homes & Garden's magazine for the past two years. With lessons, photos and encouraging insights to transform and fall in love with the home you have, this New York Times Bestseller is Michaels' second best-selling book.  

 

 


 

4. Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures by Derek "Deek" Diedricksen  

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For the dreamer and doer alike, this display of unique and innovative structures shows you the limits of what is possible in a collection of architecture and design from selected designers and builders. Diedricksen includes commentary alongside full-color photographs as well as guidelines on building with recycled and salvaged materials, six sets of building plans, and techniques for inhabiting a small space. 

Read more about How Home Furnishings Stores Can Keep Up with the Tiny House Movement 

 

 


 

5. At Home: Sarah Style by Sarah Richardson

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"Following the bestselling success of Sarah Style, HGTV star and design queen Sarah Richardson invites readers into the homes she’s most proud of designing — her own," states Amazon about this guide to style, identifying with your home and entertaining. Richardson puts a spin on the design-books genre by including recipes and never-before-seen photos of her unique style expressed as "casual elegance meets nature."

 

 


6. The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful by Myquillyn Smith 

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“There is beauty in the lived-in and loved-on and just-about-used-up," Myquillyn says, "and welcoming that imperfection wholeheartedly just might be the most freeing thing you’ll ever do.”

Self-taught decorator and popular blogger Myquillyn Smith believes in decorating for real people and embracing the unpredictable imperfections of daily life. Instead of focusing on impressing guests, Smith encourages readers to think about the purpose of their home so they can tailor it to their unique styles. 

 

 


 

7. Styled: Secrets for Arranging Rooms, from Tabletops to Bookshelves Hardcover by Emily Henderson  

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Emily Henderson lays out 10 steps to styling which she explains can be done in minutes, as opposed to decorating, which can take months. Styled offers readers 1,000 design ideas from 75 different rooms and teaches the audience how to wean out what they don't love so they can focus their energy on repurposing, rearranging and building on what they enjoy. 

Read more about  How to Increase Home Furnishing Sales with Local Repurposed Art 

 


 

8. Barbara Westbrook: Gracious Rooms by Barbara Westbrook (author), Heather MacIsaac (contributor) 

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For more than 20 years, Virginia native Barbara Westbrook has been creating classically inspired homes with a touch of Southern charm and European design. Gracious Rooms guides readers through 12 beautiful homes from contemporary to historic mansions. Westbrook applies her expertise to her first book, presenting the importance of symmetry, color, mood setting and bringing in natural elements to your home. 

 

 

 


9. Southern Style Decorating by Andrea Fanning

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Design experts and savvy homeowners all contributed to this 208-page coffee table book. Southern Style Decorating is a photographic display of the region's signature style aimed at inspiring readers to incorporate similar design and style in their own work. 

 

 

 


10. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo  

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Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo teaches readers how to simplify their homes step by step with her revolutionary KonMari Method. This Tokyo lifestyle phenomenon promises to ease the mind of the homemaker as the category-by-category system effectively helps readers clear their clutter. To date, not one follower has reported a relapse or a need to implement the system more than once. 

 

 

 


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Topics: Home Furnishings

Written by Maria Shayna Tzouvelekis

Maria Shayna Tzouvelekis is an Inbound Marketer at CrossCheck in Petaluma, CA.