Books to Inspire Your Home & Garden
By CHELSEA MULDER
Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave
Joanna Gaines
Harper Design, 2018
Homebody is the book for those with a home-based business, stay-at-home parents or anyone looking to redesign their living spaces for the perfect blend of function and style. Central Texas’ own HGTV star Joanna Gaines uses examples from her own farmhouse and other design projects to help you assess your priorities as well as evaluate your design likes or dislikes for the spaces you inhabit the most. Room by room, Homebody demonstrates how best to implement your design wish list and create spaces you will never want to leave.
Handcrafted: A Woodworker’s Story
Clint Harp
Atria Books, 2018
You may recognize Clint Harp as Chip and Joanna Gaines’ crafty carpenter, but his journey to his role as the hunky handcrafter on HGTV’s “Fixer Upper” was a long and winding one. Handcrafted details Harp’s journey from salesman and financially stable provider to monetarily insecure but emotionally fulfilled carpenter as he describes what it takes to turn your craft into a fruitful career. Luckily for Harp, his passion has born a successful brand and his memoir provides unvarnished, thoughtful reflections on a path that’s possible for anyone daring enough to pursue it.
Veranda: Escapes
Clinton Smith
Hearst Books, 2018
Clinton Smith’s newest addition to the Veranda series, Escapes: Alluring Outdoor Style showcases dozens of breathtaking gardens, magnificent pools, elegant courtyards and stylish porches—all of which adorn homes designed by the world’s most influential architects. Smith, an award-winning journalist and Texas native, provides design ideas to enhance your own outdoor living areas and entertainment spaces.
Texas Made/Texas Modern: The House and the Land
Helen Thompson
The Monacelli Press, 2018
Helen Thompson teams up with photographer Casey Dunn to explore 19 homes where modernism meets the gritty Texas spirit. Dunn’s sumptuous photography transports the reader into the world of cool, modern minimalism blended into Texas landscapes. Thompson’s fascination with the relationship between a house and its site and the local materials of which it’s made makes for entertaining reading. In her words, “… when you look at these houses, you know that … the way they address their environment means only one thing: there is no other place these houses can be other than where they are—in Texas.”
