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The Comfortable Home: How to Invest in Your Nest and Live Well for Less

Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams know that the key to comfort is how you set up your home.

For two decades, their home furnishings have been synonymous with relaxed style. For them, comfort and beauty work in concert; they are never opposing ideals. Gold and Williams's elegant collection of home furnishings is often the first—and last—place people go when they want pieces that are perfect in scale, comfort, and price.

In The Comfortable Home, Gold and Williams share their insights, experience, and practical knowledge so that you can make your home one that is both designed—and designed for living. With a focus on spending money wisely—investing in pieces you will have forever and making strong statements with affordable "pretty little things," Gold and Williams cover all aspects of creating a beautiful, inviting living space, including:

· Working with color
· Deciding whether to hire a decorator (or not)
· Furnishing small spaces
· Finding inspiration in the world around you
· Creating flow from room to room
· And much, much more

Taking the reader throughout the home—from the entryway into the bedroom, dining room, and all the living spaces—The Comfortable Home is apropos, whether your style is modern, traditional, or something in between. There is plenty of advice on everything, from choosing the perfect bedside table to displaying a beloved collection to deciding where to splurge and where to hold back.

Throughout, sumptuous original photography provides inspirational tours of real homes—including Gold and Williams's New York City apartment as well as a revitalized ranch, country cottage, and Federal-style home in the city.

Whether you are starting from scratch or looking for a smart way to update a room with a few new pieces of furniture, The Comfortable Home reveals how rooms with different functions can merge into a perfect whole that is inviting and recharging.

Still much stress here, but one shiny moment has been the procurement of the perfect solution for the control of my sewing sundries. Ever since Christmas the sewing clutter has been escalating in our dining room- I don't want to sew downstairs in Tim's scary scary office, because it is 1) scary, scary and 2) away from the fam. And I like the fam and don't have enough time with them as it is. (Tim helpfully offered to set me up a sewing room in the Dead Hooker Room. If the "room" was a livable space, it probably would not have got dubbed the DHR. Just saying.)

Anyway, there was sewing chaos everywhere and it made me sad and crazy and then we found this COMPUTER armoire on a crazy good President's Day sale. I'm pleased that a random holiday sells furniture to those in need of same. All of the cluttery badness seems much less when contained like this. If I were not already wed I would totally propose to my sewing cabinet. I love it so.

We really tried to recycle everything we could through out the project. but once the molding was down, I was happier with how the room flowed. By removing the molding it made the room feel bigger. Which is what you want when you are trying to sell your house.