Susanna Salk从50多位**的设计师如Kelly Wearstler, Bunny Williams, Albert Hadley, Nate Berkus和Mary McDonald的作品中选出最受喜爱的房间（照片由世界**的室内摄影师拍摄），就如何将基本的设计原则运用到室内给出了富有见地的建议。

Susanna Salk按平衡、颜色、混合、配饰、摆设、打破常规和异想天开等主题给本书划分章节，覆盖了优秀设计的全过程，阐述了书中提到的设计师是如何做出绝对能够，让这些房间熠熠生辉的。本书鼓励和对话式的语调、实用的建议和观念，以及设计师本人说的话（解释他们的哲学）能让读者们创造出属于他们自己的集时尚、实用和独特于一身的房间。

本书涵盖的风格多种多样，从传统到现代，正式到古怪，并展示了当代***的设计师设计的一些**的作品。对于有追求的设计者来说，《做自己的室内设计师》是一座资源丰富的宝藏。

Selecting favorite rooms from more than fifty renowned designers such as Kelly Wearstler, Bunny Williams, Albert Hadley, Nate Berkus, and Mary McDonald—and shot by the world’s top shelter photographers—Susanna Salk offers insightful advice on how to apply basic design principles to interiors.

Organized into chapters on balance, color, mixing, accessorizing, arrangements, rule breaking, and whimsy, Salk walks through the process of great design, illustrating how the featured designers made the decisions they did to make these rooms look so great. The book’s encouraging, conversational tone, practical tips and ideas, and quotes by the designers themselves explaining their philosophies empower the reader to create stylish, functional, and unique rooms of their very own.

Covering a range of styles from traditional to modern, formal to whimsical, and showcasing some of the best work by the best designers of our age, Be Your Own Decorator is a rich resource for the aspiring decorator.