Gentle Readers, a fellow blogger and I need your help. Yesterday, Nichole of 40 days of… asked for recommendations for design books. I’m making the same plea!
Can you help?
I’ve already raved about Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan‘s book, Apartment Therapy: The 8-Step Home Cure. I not only loved it; I think it’s a really important book. A how-to for loving and caring for your home as a living, breathing thing.
Jonathan Adler‘s “My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living” is my current favorite. I couldn’t agree more with his “your home should make you happy!” philosophy.

So lay it on us: What design or decorating book can we not live without? There’s still time to order before Christmas…
Annie Elliott – aka bossy color – is an interior decorator and design blogger in Washington, D.C. She has been quoted in publications from The Washington Post to Real Simple and is considered an expert on color, residential space planning, and telling people what to do in the nicest way possible.