House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget (Cozy Minimalist Guide to Interior Design and Home Organization―Beautiful Wedding Gift and House Warming Gift)

This is The Nester's best book yet! Filled with practical advice and beautiful photos, you'll want to leave this one on the coffee table. She truly has the heart of a teacher and shares her love for all things home in a way that is approachable and fun. Her mission is to set us free to create the home that is uniquely our own, cozy and welcoming - and always reinforcing that it doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful.

This is the kind of book that I will go back to time and time again. Her style is "cozy miinmalism" but it doesn't look like "minimalism" although you could pair it down even more if that's your style. Great ideas in this book for anyone who wants a refresh, or just practical ways to manage your decor.

This is a beautiful book filled with wonderful ideas. It offers a lot of permission for exploration and doing things your own creative way. Each idea it has about a page or so of writing. That’s nice because you can read a little bit or a lot in any single sitting, depending on what you have time for. The photographs are a large and beautiful. It is a joy to read this book, and I think I’ll come back to it time and again. Very glad I purchased it!

Beautiful book full of great tips and practical advice. Short, easy to read chapters make it the perfect coffee table book, or gift for people who hate reading.

There are books that are beautiful to look at. There are books that are beautiful to read. Then there are those that check off both boxes.HOUSE RULES, by the beautiful, down to earth, and effervescent, Myquillyn Smith aka @TheNester, however, is on a league of its own! It checks off those two boxes AND then some!!!Diving into it feels like the best most luxurious massage for your body, the coziest hug for your home-loving Soul and the most beautiful, nourishing feast for your mind. It is to the point, simple and practical in a way that it clears any and all resistance you have to creating the home you have always wanted, yet, it reads like a beautiful poem that pierces into your heart and awakens your curiosity, creativity and craving for prioritizing your home and each sacred space inside of it like your joy and peace depended on it, because they do. Because while our body is our first precious home for our soul to thrive on this Earth, our home home is the next most important foundation that is here to hold us every single day, especially when we need a soft, safe space to land in and find ourself.It is the only HOME manual you will ever need, AND the LIFE manual you didn't know you needed!Here is to home and cultivating the sacred spaces we all deserve to live in!XoYola

"House Rules" is gorgeous, practical and holds layers of wisdom about making a home that works for you, your people, your current home and the way you host others. I used Myquillyn's ideas to love and sell our previous home and now to move into our next home. Nothing is hanging on the walls yet, and I finally know that is the right order of my decision-making at this point in a move.If you need ideas for beauty and organization in your right-now home, but also scale, proportion, lighting, shapes and textures along with honing your own nesting style, this book will challenge and delight you. It has gorgeous photographs, catchy phrases to remember what might work (wall sabbaths), even the cover liner is happy. It would make a great gift for you or someone you love.

Wonderful book full of inspiration by Amber Lewis…,enjoyed her first book & this one is a good companion to that one. However. The very light type on a light colored page is difficult to read. Good decorator and lovely homes.

I first heard about this book on Dawn Madsen's you tube channel, Minimal Mom. I don't normally get drawn into books like this (coffee table looking books) but she described the book, showing pages from the book, and talked about the different simple to follow design concepts. Because I trust Dawn, I took a chance. I figured if I didn't like it I could return it. Well I love this book! As the author says, you don't have to like all of her personal interiors to apply the concepts to your own home and that is so true (though I do like the playfulness of some of her interiors and it is stretching me a bit). I loved the book so much that I bought one for my 86 year old mother for Mother's Day and she LOVES it. The reason that it resonated with each of us, I think, is that there is one simple concept per page, with an accompanying photo that reinforces the lesson. I'll be on the phone with mom and she'll quote me "well rule #34 says...". She even went on the hunt for a decorative pedestal flower pot to put her Monstera plant in and it has become a focal point of her fireplace area. Prior to that she was reluctantly going to pass the plant on b/c it was so large she didn't know what to do with it. She has thanked me so many times already for this gift. It really is a lovely book - both a teaching tool and a "sit in the armchair with a cup of coffee or tea" book to read for enjoyment.

This book helped me figure out design principles for why I did like something/way of arranging a room, and why I didn't. And I liked that she encouraged 'shopping' from your house inventory because it can bring a whole new freshness with a re purposed item, or arrangement.

The book is written in a friendly manner that makes interior design approachable. I like colour and the book is designed around using neutrals.