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Apartment Therapy
the eight-step home cure

by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan



      Would you like a top interior designer to redo your apartment? Does your apartment need more color or a deep de-cluttering? Your apartment can go from drab to fab with the help of Apartment Therapy by author Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan.

Apartment Therapy shows you how to identify areas that cause stress or unhappiness. With Gillingham-Ryan's expertise and questionnaires, you will diagnose and treat your home's ills. The initial step begins by visualizing your apartment as a body with bones, breath, heart, and head. It may sound odd, but this step deepens your understanding of the interior layout, functionality, and life of your home. Many people concentrate on one area, such as adding color. Adding throw pillows or a rug may not solve your decorating dilemma if you ignore the broken lamps or the jammed windows.

Does your home suffer from bowling alley syndrome? I found out mine does. This is a typical arrangement in your living room where all the furniture is pushed to the walls. Positive energy streams quickly through the room. Another common arrangement is the movie theater set-up. Just like at the movies, everyone faces the television without comfortable interaction. Do you know how to fix these common mistakes? Read the book to find out how to fix these, and other, decorating mistakes.

Apartment Therapy offers solid advice for one room remedies to deep cleaning. It presents worksheets, illustrations, real-life examples, and resources for your apartment dilemmas. The eight-week treatment plan helps readers find practical solutions and maintain decorating makeovers. Although the book is targeted for apartments, the book can address problems in other kinds of homes. Gillingham-Ryan is a top New York interior designer who has been seen on HGTV's Mission: Organization and Small Space, Big Style. The advice is given in an easy-to-follow format. I loved Apartment Therapy for its guidance in visualizing a home in the physical, emotional, and spiritual sense.

The Book

Bantam Dell/Division of Random House, Inc.
March 28, 2006
Paperback
0-553-38312-4
Non-fiction/ Home /How to
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The Reviewer

Jennifer Akers
Reviewed 2006
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