[.ca] Pottery Barn Storage & Display: Idea and Inspration for ... (ISBN 0848727622)

Self-hype:
I don't know why anyone would buy this book when you can get the catalog for free. All it does is tell you to buy the stuff at Pottery Barn and how to use it - like we don't already know how to use a bookcase?? Don't waste your money.

Enhanced with the showcase photography of Stefano Massei:
The latest entry into the outstanding Oxmoor House "Pottery Barn" series, Pottery Barn Storage & Display specifically focuses on how ideas, tips and techniques for keeping, showcasing, and storing everyday necessities just where they are handiest, most accessible, and aesthetically pleasing through creative solutions and practical tips for storage and display in whatever room (entryway, kitchen, bedroom, living room, utility area, laundry, closet, etc) is under consideration. Enhanced with the showcase photography of Stefano Massei, the informed and informative text is the collaboration of freelance writer Martha Fay, media personality and home design expert Carol Endler Sterbenz, and professional interior designer Genevieve A. Sterbenz.

I can't get a catalog, and I'm really glad I got this book:
I've often been puzzled how best to display my large book collection, or my china, or how best to arrange my storage. I love this book. It's offered me far more help in a few pages than years of decorating magazines ever have. No we are not all born with the decorating gene. I certainly missed out, but I'm glad I can buy some help in this book. I put the pottery barn books up on the level of my other favourite decor books by Lauri Ward-- Use What You Have Decorating and it's sequel. Those taught me furniture placement, but this teaches me how to make my home up to date, both warm and welcoming. I live outside the USA, and am NOT near a pottery Barn so I was worried I was buying a big expensive ad for their stuff. I am so glad I bought this book. Because of it, and Living Rooms, I immediately bought Dining Rooms, Bathrooms, Bedrooms and Outdoor Spaces. They are a wonderful course in relaxed casual home design. I'm sure that people with the decor gene might be bored with stuff I consider revolutionary but I'm so tired of decorators telling me to break the rules when I can't tell what the rules are in the first place. (what rules? who knew? I don't even know when I'm breaking the rules "right" or really wrong!) The pottery barn books and Lauri Ward's books have given me a head start in making my own space look comfortable and inviting and I'm grateful.