Interior Decorating: Decorate Like a Celebrity

A room can feel considered and distinctive without an unlimited decorating budget. In Interior Decorating: Decorate Like a Celebrity, Frances Goodyear brings together practical planning advice and a broad assortment of home styles, encouraging readers to shape spaces around their own preferences rather than simply imitate a look.

Start with a plan, not a shopping trip

The guide opens with the foundations of a decorating project: gathering ideas, measuring a room, identifying its focal point, and thinking through how the space needs to function. Organizing colors, fabrics, furnishings, and inspiration before making major purchases gives decisions a clearer thread—and can help keep a room from becoming a collection of unrelated finds.

Explore styles from spare to richly layered

Chapters introduce a varied palette of approaches, including minimalist, casual, formal, shabby chic, Paris apartment, French country, Tuscan, tropical chic, and lodge styles. That range makes the book useful for browsing as well as planning: readers can compare different moods and consider which details might suit a particular room.

Make existing pieces part of the design

Rather than treating every update as a reason to start over, the book includes guidance on using what you already have. Its budget-minded perspective keeps attention on thoughtful choices and resourceful ways to refresh a space.

Small decisions, more cohesive rooms

Design principles and practical suggestions connect the individual elements of a room, while separate sections consider decorating in a day and choosing art. The overall message is that a clear point of view can help furnishings and details feel more intentional.

For the home decorator with ideas to try

This guide may suit readers who want an accessible introduction to decorating concepts, a sampler of familiar interior styles, or a starting point for planning a room refresh. Browse for inspiration, then adapt what appeals to the home and budget you actually have.