Breaking the Rules Home Style for the Way We Live Today

The old rules of decorating are dead, says style maker and TV personality Christy Ferer. Whether we've wanted to or not, we've staged a revolution -- a revolution in taste and in the way we live. In today's homes, anything goes, and we're all the happier for it. In this exuberant and groundbreaking book, we discover what works and what happens to the way we live when all the rules are broken. Today we find that the dining room, once a place of fine linens and formal dinner parties, has become an office, a rec room, a space families live in every day. It's still beautiful, but who cares if the chairs match? Life has changed and, like everything else, the old rules sometimes just don't make sense. This revolution in taste has opened the door to a million new possibilities. But where do we start? In "Breaking the Rules," style whiz Christy Ferer shakes up the old assumptions and provides us with fabulous tips about: COLOR -- Common wisdom tells us to stick to neutrals for major areasand let brighter colors serve as accents, but Ferer shows us how green, blue, and even pink work as the new neutrals. PATTERN -- Plaids withFerer, Christy is the author of 'Breaking the Rules Home Style for the Way We Live Today' with ISBN 9780684866093 and ISBN 0684866099.