A wish-book come true! In Nell Hill's Rooms We Love, decorating
maven Mary Carol Garrity coaches readers on how to affordably
decorate rooms they will fall in love with. Named "One of
America's hottest little retailers" by Fortune magazine, Mary
Carol Garrity's mini empire of three decor stores are a Midwest
regional phenomenon and have become landmarks in the decorating
world.
In Nell Hill's Rooms We Love, we will see Mary Carol apply her
Nell Hill’s principles of design to new challenges. Even though
design styles and trends have changed significantly since Nell
Hill's Style at Home, Mary Carol’s first book ten years ago, the
rules that guide her approach to decorating have not. In this
book, we will rediscover those principles at work in four very
different houses, in addition to her own home. In the book, we
will visit rooms inspired by the needs of each wner and will
see how they transformed their rooms using Mary Carol’s
inspiration and “tricks of the trade.” We will observe:
• A century-old English Tudor in a city neighborhood, reinvented
for empty nesters
• A suburban tear-down that was rebuilt for a growing family
• A home in the country, newly built but with an old soul
• A sweeping country manor with one-of-a kind rooms
While traveling through these homes, Mary Carol will construct
the process and provide readers with the blueprint she uses for
discovering personal styles. We hope you will be inspired by
these rooms and will come away with creative energy to make your
rooms beautiful, functional, colorful, and comfortable.
Mary Carol Garrity and her staff at Nell Hill’s work with
thousands of customers each year to help them bring their homes
to life. Mary Carol’s passion is to work with wners to make
the rooms in their houses beautiful, colorful, functional, and
special. In Nell Hill’s Rooms We Love, Mary Carol shares some of
her favorite decorating solutions, showing her readers inside the
homes of the clients she has worked with to help them bring their
dreams to life.
In this new book, Mary Carol deconstructs the process that helps
her work with the myriad of decorating challenges from her
customers. It is a big order to think about redoing a room in a
house, committing to a paint color or wallpaper, dozens of yards
of fabric, new upholstery, area rugs that you will be living with
for a while, and the investment of dollars and time spent on the
makeover. Mary Carol demystifies the process by showing us
through rooms she loves and calling out details that go into
making the room successful.
Mary Carol defines success in decorating by working with
customers to identify their own personal style. While the stores
of Nell Hill’s are packed full of great room settings, tableaus,
and both big and little surprises, Mary Carol believes that
people have a personal style that is uniquely their own. Her goal
is to help you discover your own style by offering some guiding
principles for your decisions.
Mary Carol’s Guiding Principles
• Mary Carol believes that your style comes from mixing old with
new, showcasing your keepsake treasures as well as your newly
discovered surprises.
• And she believes in comfort—providing spaces where you can sit
down with a book and get cozy or where your guests will find a
special amenity waiting just for them.
• Mary Carol believes that a beautiful room always offers an
unexpected delight.
• She encourages you to bring the outdoors inside, using garden
structures year-round in seasonal decorating.
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