A Review: VERANDA Designer Secrets and Lessons from Designer's Own Homes & A Visit to Graylyn Estate

Description

This interior design coffee table book takes you inside the personal residences of 40 top designers and architects. Decorating with what you love is a fail-proof formula for a charismatic home. This intimate look at design professionals's stunning spaces pulls back the curtain on how the world’s top designers and architects live in their own homes. With striking photographs and thoughtful advice about designing with passion and panache, this gorgeous coffee table book guides design enthusiasts to envision the home of their dreams. Organized by room, each chapter shares designers ideas for creating elegant rooms that showcase your personal style. Inside you’ll find stunning spaces such as: Jane Schwab’s Charlotte loftlike penthouse, which is ideal for entertaining Mia Reay’s Jacobean-style English country house which draws on inspiration from her passion for TK painting Lauren Santo Domingo’s Southampton, New York home which maximizes the use of art, antiques, and books as decorating objects Veranda Designer Secrets makes a perfect gift book for home design enthusiasts looking to create and live their best lives in a well-dressed home. Designers and architects featured throughout the book: Bunny Williams, Caroline Gidiere, Cece Barfield Thompson, Ceara Donnelley, Charlotte Moss, Colette Van Den Thillart, David Jimenez, Emily Satloff, Hundley Hilton, Jane Scott Hodges, Jan Showers, Jeffry Weisman, John Oetgen, Ken Pursley, Laura Kirar, Mary Graham, Michael DePerno, Palmer Weiss, Paul Bates, Raul Cabra, Renvy Graves Pittman, Sue Jones, Thomas O'Brien-Dan Fink, and William Eubanks. www.graylyn.com Mrs. Gray's Butterscotch Cookies Ingredients 1 lb butter, softened 8 oz. brown sugar 8 oz. white sugar pinch of salt 3 eggs 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1 lb. all-purpose flour 1/4 c. butterscotch morsels Instructions 1. Cream the butter and sugar together. 2. Add the eggs and vanilla extract. 3. Mix the flour, baking soda, and butterscotch morsels into the butter/sugar mixture until batter is smooth. 4. Portion mixture into 2 - 3.5 oz balls. 5. Place onto a greased baking sheet and bake at 375 for 10 - 12 minutes. 6. Cool at room temperature.