With each homeowner, Calderone explores the initial spark of inspiration that incited their design journey. If you prefer video, you can watch a different publishing professional answer your questions via our Reedsy Live events, which we present every two weeks. That’s why you will find that Reedsy professionals come from all across the globe: based in over 30 countries, they have worked with clients of all sizes and sensibilities. The title Live Beautiful is a little misleading in the sense that it suggests the book will introduce a collection of everyday homes in which all ordinary people can be inspired to “live beautifully” in.

The more time I spend reading, the more I learn that there is no design rule book as to what something should be. Though people speculate that Malgudi is inspired by Coimbatore or Yadavgiri, it is difficult to pinpoint one place.As someone passionate about interior decorating and curious about the process, I hoped there would be more practical tips, but the ones sprinkled throughout weren't groundbreaking or new news. By the end of it, she was left with design-magazine-cover-worthy interior photography, but also, a selection of images of her standing in, of all places, a bathroom shower with the various homeowners. While these homes are without a doubt conventionally beautiful, it should not be forgotten that the ordinary, “cluttered” homes of most people can also be a means of living beautifully. million people, we donated to Room to Read – a non-profit seeking to improve child literacy and girls’ education in low-income communities across Asia and Africa.

She is a cookbook author, and there isn’t even one full picture of her kitchen in her Hamptons home. As those people were mostly creative (which I'm not), it seemed to my untrained palette to be a lot of two or three decorstyles being repeated throughout the books. From celebrated design expert and interior designer Athena Calderone, a look into how creatives decorate their spaces Beautiful design isn't just pleasant to look at; it improves the quality of our lives.Schindler) belonging to Pamela Shamshiri (formerly of Commune) that’s filled with high-design pieces without a trace of pretension.

In her inherently articulate and swoonworthy way, Athena unpacks the collective beauty of the diverse interiors in this book and distills it through her personal and highly passionate lens to offer the strategic hows and whys of the creative design journey.

Coupled with countless observations of seeing Live Beautiful photographed in other shelter books and magazines - integrated into other authors' advice to decorate with books - I assumed this would be overplayed. And our Reedsy Learning courses are here to help any author through the learning curves in the publishing industry.