Beautiful, informative, and inspirational, this book answers the challenge of how to turn any large space into a warm, inviting home rich with personal style. While many people want large living spaces, few realize the challenges they present--such as high ceilings, long hallways, and double-height rooms--until they're face-to-face with them. This well-illustrated resource (200 full-color photographs) is packed with expert tips and techniques on how to meet the challenges of a large space.

Readers will find solutions, advice, and resources from celebrated interior designers, architects, furniture specialists, contractors, and other design professionals on:

* The big space challenge--answers common questions such as: How much will it cost? How long will it take? Who will I need to hire?
* Design and size in relation to the human figure
* Dividing and defining space by function
* Paint and wallpaper
* Furniture selection
* Choosing and arranging art and accessories
* Lighting

The author also includes a valuable Frequently Asked Questions section, as well as resource information for everything from furniture to flooring and lighting.

From the Back Cover

Living large for many people has come to mean just that -- living in a large house. That dream home may be an open Soho loft, a spacious suburban mansion, or an echoing country estate -- but all these residences present challenges often unanticipated by the homeowner.

Now at last there is a comprehensive resource of solutions, ideas and insights aimed specifically at those who want to make large spaces livable and welcoming rather than overwhelming. Big Home, Big Challenge is the dreamer's, homeowner's and designer's guide to confronting and conquering the challenges presented by today's larger living spaces.

This resource provides just the answers you've been looking for on issues such as:
* Banishing that "lost in space" feeling
* Bringing high ceilings down to human scale
* Breaking up endless hallways
* Adding details that make a large house a home

With expert advice on architectural solutions, furniture, lighting, art and accessories, paint colors and wallpaper and much more, Big Home, Big Challenge features the work of some of today's most recognized decorators, architects and other top design professionals. It offers 180-plus color photographs that prove it is possible to live large without sacrificing warmth, intimacy, and human scale.

Written by Kira Wilson Gould, an arbiter of tasteful design and editor/publisher of To the Trade magazine, Big Home, Big Challenge gives you the tools, the inspiration and a wealth of resources to make your big home a big success.

Making a large residence welcoming rather than intimidating, warm and inviting instead of forbidding, and gracious, not just spacious, can challenge even seasoned professional designers. Big Home, Big Challenge is the ideal resource for transforming large spaces into warm, attractive and inviting homes.

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