I went a little home decorating books crazy this month. But I can't get enough of this topic. Since I discovered that I can clean my home and read a book at the same time I'm not such a novel buying person anymore. I rather buy them on iTunes and plug my iPod while dusting and mopping!

These are the books I bought in February:


1. Super Crafty - Susan Beal and others

I'm opening the book while I'm typing this (yes I can type rather fast with one finger) and flip through it. I don't know if I like it or not. It's really hard to say anything about it. It's cute but a bit primitive. Maybe it is supposed to be primitive. The craft projects don't really do much to me either. I'm not really interested in putting daisies on my roller blades or violets on my bicycle helmet. But I can see potential for first time crafters.




2. The Simple Floral Home - Julia Bird

This is a beautiful book. Buy it while it's still cold and drowsy, you'll love it and it will definitely put you in spring mode!! Beautiful photographs and floral arrangements combined with beautiful interiors. Truly inspirational!!

Buy this book at Amazon.co.uk




3. Home Sanctuary - Josephine Collins

This book is really surprising. I'm a fanatic interior design and decorating books lover and one thing I noticed after browsing so many of these books - there are never people in the pictures!!! In this book there are, lots of them doing various things in their fake homes. Cooking, cleaning, talking to their camera kid on the countertop of their make believe kitchens, jumping on beds (honestly I never do that) and getting clothes out of a closet. I now understand why there are never people in these books. They shouldn't be there, it's really stupid. Beside the jumping, cooking and cleaning doing human beings and bumping in a bunch of photo's you can find in The Relaxed Home by Atlanta Bartlett, it's a great book with clever ideas, inspirational rooms and good tips.

Buy this book at Amazon.co.uk




4. Home Rules - Nate Berkus

I think that all of you who read my blog for a little while now know that I'm in love with Nate Berkus. I'm not such a person that just loves everyone - the other day I asked the Bo: "guess, which of my two heroes are seeing each other? Bo: *thinks hard* Mary Poppins and Edward Norton?" honestly we have the weirdest conversations sometimes - Anyway Nate is one of my heroes too and I was hoping that he would write a book and he did. Some say it self promotional, some say it's all the stuff that was on the Oprah show and how Oprah made it all possible. Well Nate, that's all true but you made it happen!! There ... I love this book and the beautiful photographs. I love all decorating books that start with "FIND YOUR STYLE" it's a golden rule. If you don't know what your style is you can keep decorating until you loose all your hair but you'll never get it right. This book deserves five stars and not just because I'm in love with Nate.