Coffee Table Books: The Best Home Decor
Coffee table books are the champions of home decor, effortlessly adding a touch of sophistication and personality. Their versatility allows you to style them in threes. Play with varying heights, and experiment with layouts, instantly elevating the aesthetic appeal of your living space. Beyond being visually pleasing, these books can be a dynamic element, kept fresh and even seasonal.
For instance, during fall, you can choose books with warm hues to infuse your home with cozy vibes. The best part is you can achieve all this on a budget. Scouring secondhand stores or online marketplaces for unique finds allows you to curate a collection that not only complements your style but also adds that perfect finishing touch to your home décor without breaking the bank.
With Christmas just around the corner, books make the perfect festive fit for gifting. What better way to present someone with a cool, beautiful, and functional gift that not only adds a touch of elegance to their home but also brings joy every time they flip through its pages? Coffee table books, chosen thoughtfully to match their interests or complement their decor, serve as a meaningful and stylish present. It’s a win-win way to spread holiday cheer and enhance the warmth of their home decor.
Coffee Table Books:
Sacred Spaces: Everyday People | $20
Sacred Spaces takes readers on a beautifully photographed journey inside fourteen homes. From North Carolina and California to Canada, France, and Morocco. Summers uncovers the vulnerable stories behind each one: a mother who uses her kitchen to heal her son with food, a woman who found her sanctuary after overcoming childhood abuse, and more.
Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home | $20
In Living with Color, you’ll tour beautifully designed homes to see some of the most interesting uses of the rainbow. And you’ll gather inspiration for your own spaces. You’ll train your eye to notice how color lives all around you, from the pink light bouncing off a building you see every day to the exact blue of the ocean on your last getaway.
Made for Living: Collected Interiors for All Sorts of Styles | $22
Known for her eclectic approach that stems from her California cool, Amber Lewis trains your eye in Made for Living, offering friendly advice on everything from nailing that perfect shade of paint to mismatching patterns with wild abandon to choosing a stone finish for new countertops.
Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating | $23
Lauren Liess fuses her love of design and the great outdoors into all her work. In Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating, Lauren invites readers to bring nature inside by mixing the textures of natural elements such as wood and stone with eclectic groupings of modern and quirky vintage pieces.
Forest | $50
Discover the secrets hidden within the Earth’s lush woodlands and wild landscapes through photographs and stories about enchanting forests, magnificent trees, and people who live off the land.
Down to Earth: Laid-back Interiors for Modern Living | $23
With evocative photos and substantive design advice, Down to Earth focuses on creating a lifestyle that inspires creativity and functionality. Chapters here include Point of View; Timelessness; Something Old, Something New; Nature; and Simplicity.
The Art of Home: A Designer Guide to Creating an Elevated Yet Approachable Home | $20
With step-by-step guides paired with her own design projects and the power of her personal stories, Shea helps us transform the most important parts of our lives and how we live.
The Joy of Home | $24
Gilbreath gives readers insight into her design process, striking a balance between functionality, comfort, and beauty. From using a client’s favorite color as a unifying thread throughout, to offering guidance on designing a forever home that can mature with the family over time, every space is influenced by her passion for gracious everyday living.
Live Beautiful | $23
In Live Beautiful, Athena Calderone taps into her international network of interior decorators, fashion designers, and tastemakers to reveal how carefully crafted interiors come together.
Feels Like Home: Relaxed Interiors for a Meaningful Life | $23
This book includes practical design information, with never-before-seen case studies on a variety of homes including a farmhouse, a home in the woods, a Spanish colonial, and other more traditional homes. Each case study explores a hardworking design aspect, while also focusing on the emotional aspect of the home.
Call it Home: The Details that Matter | $24
Amberwalks you through eight new homes she designed—including her own—and the thought processes behind every major choice. Whether you’re decorating one room, renovating your entire house, or planning new construction, she shares how to approach a project from start to finish, guiding you on how to find the right team so you can get the perfect results.
British Designers at Home | $25
British Designers at Home is for anyone curious to find out more about designers, and glean ideas and practical information for their own homes. This engaging and visually enticing book profiles over 20 of the most important names in British design and decoration in their own personal spaces.
A Tale of Interiors | $44
Every Pierce & Ward home tells a story. Emily and Louisa believe that there is a beauty in the unfolding of a room that takes the eye dancing from one piece to the next, swirling over velvets of peach and gold, gliding over glass and marble, and stopping to take in the homeowner’s precious sentimental favorites.
Heidi Caillier: Memories of Home: Interiors | $45
A creative mind who took the path less traveled, Caillier informs her interiors and this book with the same vibrant and enthusiastically patterned; creating homes that are nostalgic, romantic, creative, inviting, and made for both the big and small moments of life.
The Book of Flowers | $40
This elegant catalogue brings together all engravings from Redoutés illustrations of Roses and Choix des plus belles fleurs (Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers) and the most astounding images from The Lilies.