Home Front: Storage (Practical Ideas with Designer Style) - Tessa Shaw

Advantages: lightweight introduction to an important subject
Disadvantages: too lightweight!

...a perennial problem in my home - as it probably is in yours! Tessa Shaw's book is a pleasant, all-round introduction to the subject of storage. Full of nice pictures, of real peoples' homes, which are not overly 'staged' like the photos in many interiors books. A wide range of storage solutions are covered ranging from clothes and shoes, collectables and offices through to bathrooms, childrens' rooms and sheds and basements. There's even a section ...
...with a 'before and after' scenario for a bedroom. I found this rather uninspiring and found it hard to enthuse about the difference made to a fireplace cupboard by the replacement of a louvre door for an MDF one. Tessa Shaw did admit at one point that a scheme will only work if the owners put things away properly. Perhaps this goes for all storage systems. However, it seems to me that not enough attention was paid to dividing and sub-dividing drawers ... Read review