Designing your Dream....

.Sometimes out of something horrific comes beauty.

Fellow blogger Susan Lang recently sent me

her new book

Designing Your Dream Home: Every Question to Ask, Every Detail to Consider, and Everything to Know Before You Build or Remodel .

It is a workbook of sorts, that walks one through,

step by step and room by room

the process of designing and building a home.

Highly organized, she does not leave one stone unturned.

...But it is also thought provoking...

challenging you to really think about what you need in each room.

Then helping you to communicate that vision

to the whole team of architects, builders, designers, consultants.....

The crux of the book is organization...Susan not only reminds you to take the time to get organized...but walks you through step by step the process with forms , check sheets, to do lists, meeting notes and ticklers...

Right down to how many binders to keep, what to label them and how to keep them at your fingertips for which meetings!

She really does a lot of the tedious thinking about organization for you!

oh would I need that!

This was really helpful to see folks...and I am not even building a home.

...yet

Now for the horrific to beauty part...
Having survived hurricanes, and seeing the mass devastation firsthand,

even losing family members to Katrina's fury...

Susan somberly dedicates this book to the victims of Hurricane Katrina

with the hope of
renewal and rebuilding.

If you are balancing on that wonderful slippery slope of designing and building...

even if you just like planning for that time

check this book out.
only 16 clams...I have a feeling it will save you that much alone in
Ibuprofen.


Easily.


check it out here.....


All Photos, for your viewing pleasure from Marie Claire. Top one is Marrakech others are a Parisian apt.
Hey....I said DREAM house...right??