I have a special treat for you today – a sneak peak and a chance to win a copy of Holly Becker’s new book, Decorate Workshop – Design and Style Your Space in 8 Creative Steps. You may know Holly from her hugely popular blog, Decor8. My blog is one of the stops on a two week blog book tour being sponsored by Chronicle Books. I was excited to be a part of it and got even more excited when the book arrived in my mailbox last week.
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This is one of those books that you will find yourself immersed in immediately – not because it is suspenseful, but rather because it is engaging and interactive. Decorate Workshop is a decorating book like no other. Yes, it is filled with pretty rooms and inspiration and comes with a colorful french book jacket filled with images that Holly loves that unfolds into art for your walls, but it is so much more. It is a true workbook in every sense of the word and Holly is your helping hands-on guide.
Holly wrote the book in a way that allows you to interact with her and follow her prompts throughout the book – you will find yourself writing in it, highlighting, and turning the page corners over. That is the book’s purpose – to engage and guide you to be able to decorate your home in a way that will make you happy. You will want to put the kettle on, grab a snugly throw, and a pen or pencil so you can delve right into learning how Holly breaks the process of decorating down into her 8 steps.
I enjoyed reading Part 2 the best, because if you don’t know what your personal style is – then you are never going to feel comfortable in your own home. Putting your personal stamp on your space just makes it that much better and more interesting – no more cookie cutter approaches that lead to wasted money and unhappy rooms.
After reading and interacting with Holly through the book, you will find you have fresh eyes and the confidence to tackle any space. Your home will start to feel just right and that is the key to rooms that not only look good, but that make you feel just as good living in them.
This book is the one that you will never be able to part with after reading, because not only is Holly’s advise right on, but you will be putting so much of yourself into it – you will want to use it a reference. It is a keeper.
The book is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Chronicle Books.
I have a copy to give away – to keep for yourself or give to a decorating loving friend as a perfect holiday present.
To enter to win a copy:
Leave me a comment on this post. For more chances – share it or follow me on Twitter, Facebook, G+, and Pinterest and tell me you did in another comment.
I will draw one winner at the end of the day on Saturday, December 8th (EST) and announce the winner on Monday, December 10th.
Be sure to check out the other stops on the Decorate Workshop blog tour:
Monday, November 26 – Poppytalk
Tuesday, November 27 – Sacramento Street & A Creative Mint
Wednesday, November 28 – Hooray & Design For Mankind
Thursday, November 29 – Decorology & Bloesem
Friday, November 30 – The Curated House & Design Muse
Monday, December 3 – Simply Grove & In Honor of Design
Tuesday, December 4 – In My Own Style & This is Love Forever
Wednesday, December 5 – Mom Inc. Daily & Knack Studios & This is Glamorous
Thursday, December 6 – Justina Blakeney & Mint
Friday, December 7 – The TomKat Studio & Down and Out Chic
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I would love to win! What a great giveaway! :)
What an awesome giveaway!
Will the book help a person who has not even a ounce of decorating skills?!
Hi Jackie – that would be a big YES! Holly breaks down the decorating process into do-able easy steps no matter what your style of decorating is. The process is the same. It is the perfect book for someone who wants to improve on their skills.
Would love to win this!! Am planning to start my space after Christmas!! :)
Following you on Twitter!
Subscribed on FB!
Following you on Pinterest! You’re a find…glad to have seen your work today!
I would love to win this! I also followed on pinterest!
This looks like a really great book! Thanks for the opportunity! :) Have a Happy Holiday!
Looks like a great book. If I don’t win it, I’ll be sure to put it on my Christmas list!
I would love this book because I struggle with finding my “personal style”! I love your website, too. Beautiful!
This looks like a fun book.
This book looks fantastic! If I don’t win, I might have to buy it as a Christmas gift,: one for a friend, and one for me!
Thanks, Diane– found your site and I am a new devotee! You are a wonder. :- ) Please DO put me in the running to win this great book.
Fa-la-LA!
Mary
I would love to add this book to my decorating library. Thanks for running this giveaway.
I tweeted about the giveaway.
I hope I win!
This is a great book with awesome ideas! Would love to have a chance to win it.
Thanks for the giveaway.
I follow you on facebook.
I follow you on Pinterest.
I want to write and highlight a Decorate Workshop too. Fingers crossed that I’m the lucky winner. ;)
Her book sounds amazing-just what I need! Thanks for the chance to win a copy.
Love this!
Love your stuff, would love to win!
Does sound exciting. Count me in!
I would love to win!!!
Looks like a great book, would love to have it!
I’m following on Pinterest!
I “Like”ed on Facebook!
I shared on Facebook!
Love your ideas!! Thank you for sharing your gift!!!
Looks like a GREAT book! Thanks for telling us about it.
I am new to your blog and have loved going through all the wonderful posts that you have done in the past. This book looks wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
I added you to Twitter and posted the link on my twitter. I already was following you on Facebook. Now I’m following you on google+ and I posted it on google plus. Thanks for the giveaway.
This is awesome. Would luv some additional ideas to help with decorating our first home.
I think I especially need the chapter on finding your own style….I like just too many! Thanks for this opportunity!
Thanks for the chance :)
I’m a Pinterest follower as well.
Thank you for a chance at this beautiful book! I’d love to show it off on my coffee table!
I follow you on Pinterest!
I follow you on twitter!
This sounds like just what I need – to learn my own personal style. I feel like a confused mess and have just moved into a 1957-built house. I love it, but don’t know what to do with it!
I subscribed on FB!
Great book!!! I would love to win it. Thanks for having this giveaway!
Sounds like a great book and just what I need to guide me in decorating my new house (well, it’s an older house but new to me).
Can’t wait to read and use this beautiful book.
I have Pinned Holly’s book.
What a fantastic resource, thank you for the opportunity!
I would love to win this book. I follow your blog and just love your blog and all your ideas on how to do things. This book would be a big help also. Thanks for the opportunity!!
I’m following you on Pinterest, too. On my way over now for my nightly fix :)
Fantastic giveaway. Thank you.
Love this giveaway! Thanks!
I follow you on Pinterest.
Shared the giveaway on Twitter. (teraleighphoto)
Thank you for the opportunity to win what looks like a great book.
follow you on FB
follow you on G+
follow you on Pinterest
I liked you on Facebook.
I’d love to win a copy of this book. Thanks for the giveaway, Diane.
Merry Christmas!
Hi Marilyn! You won the book, Decorate Workshop by Holly Becker. Could you e-mail me your shipping address so I can send it to you. Congratulations!
Holly has a most artistic way of decorating. I’d love the book! Thanks!
I love to win a copy of Holly Becker’s Book. Dying to get my hands on it.
I am following you on Facebook.
I am following you on Pinterest.
This sounds like the book I need to help solve my design roadblocks–both mental and physical!
Awesome sounding book! Would love to win it.
I would LOVE to win a copy of this book! I could definitely use every help I can get to decorate my home, my space. Keeping my fingers crossed!
My style is eclectic, and I am slowly learning not to beat myself about it. I’d love to read if the book talks about people like me!
Thank you for holding this giveaway!
I follow you on FB!
Trying to figure out “my style” ! I like a variety of decorating styles, and find that I have a challenge when putting a room together. Maybe the Decorator Workshop book would enlighting me on how to blend different styles for a cohesive LOOK!
Love your blog Diane! Desperately need the book… or… my home does!
Following on pinterest…facebook…google +
Would love to win the book.
Following on FB and also posted it on FB.
sounds like a great book!
Following on Pinterest. Great giveaway. Happy Holidays!
Following you through G+
I would love to win this book! I struggle with finding my personal style and decorating my home to what suits me and my family. I want a place this is beautiful and something my family will love to call home. Been in our house for almost 4 years and most of my rooms are still incomplete.
Now following you on Facebook. Thanks for the chance to win this book!
Thank you so much for this wonderful giveway. Of course, I would love to win it !
Anne
I need help with the Master Bedroom, maybe Holly’s “decorate workshop” style will give me the inspiration I need.
This book sounds fabulous!
Great book to help decorate my first home.
Wahoo! A world of ideas all bound up in a pretty package…I would LOVE to win a copy of this!!! Thanks for a chance…
I love how you do things “MacGyver Style”! I’m pretty sure I know my “style” just not quite sure how to go about it. Would love to win!
Looks like a great book! I always like to change things up after putting away the Christmas decorations. This might inspire me! :)
This book looks like it is full of ideas! Would love to have a new coffee table book!
DeDe@DesignedDecor
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I am so excited about this book! I love my home but am always looking for ways to improve it (besides getting rid of the clutter…that NEVER seems to happen). With 3 girls moving into their own homes I’m sure we can put this book to good use and probably need more than one copy!!!! Just in time for Christmas giving!
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and shared on Facebook:)
I hope I win! Love your blog!
What a helpful book. I would love to read that before I try to redo my bedroom. Thank you for the giveaway.
Would love to win this book! Looks great!
What a great giveaway! It would be so great to be able to curl up with this book after all the holidays are over and get inspired!
Having just unpacked most of the boxes in my new house, this would be a perfect guide for what to do now!
Love your blog – follow you on FB too!
Follow you on Pinterest too!!!!
Fantastic giveaway! This will help a decorating challenged person as myself. :)
Following on Twitter. Can’t believe I wasn’t already.
Subscribed on Facebook.
Following on G+.
Following on Pinterest.
I would LOVE to win a copy of this book. Holly’s first book “Decorate” is one of my go-to places for ideas!
This book looks wonderful!. I love your blog I can’t believe I never found it before. I subscribed on Facebook and will follow on you Pinterest. I just read about your favorite things and I too adore the old movies you love. I agree Christmas wouldn’t be the same without the Andy Williams Christmas album playing in the background. It is the first Christmas music I play every year. I got a little chocked up listening to it this year. Luckily I got to go to his Christmas show with my mother a couple years ago. It is one of my best memories!
I’d love to win this great book!
That book sounds awesome! I’d love to win! And sitting with my thoughts all about home is something I can do for HOURS, so I might even have to keep it for my very own self.
This book looks fabulous! I love checking out other people’s ideas and tweaking them to make them my own. Thanks for sharing about this book!
I always enjoy your blog. I would love to win this one. Thank you for the giveaway!
Hi again,
I just followed on pinterest!
Hi Diane, love your blog! I need this book for a seriously design-challenged person! Thanks so much for offering the giveaway!
Yes PLEASE!!! There’s nothing better than a book that helps guide a person in their OWN direction!!! So many comments… I hope I win!!!
If I don’t win, I’m adding this to my Christmas list! It looks like just what I need.
I just fond your blog and love it :) And I would love to win this book too!
This would be a great book to own.
I’d love to win! I did Holly’s online course when I first started my blog :)
I’m tweeting this, too – @EasyPeasyOrganc
that book seems great- so excited
already have you on Gplus
already have you on pinterest!
kellythom747
I will be redoing my apartment in the new year and need some serious help so that it doesn’t look exactly the same.
I would love to win!
Thank you so much for this fabulous giveaway. I am following you on Pinterest.
This book sounds like a great resource to use for inspiration! What a fantastic giveaway!
I am a want to be DIY home decorator. This book would be such a blessing. It would help me figure out what I can do with my small townhouse which at present is rather hodge-podge. ……….
I HOPE I WIN !!!!!!!
I am following you on Pinterest now . I love your site!!!
Thanks
My kids are growing up and I’m rethinking the design of our home due to changing needs. This looks like a great book to help! Repinning on Pintest!
This book sounds amazing…I’d love to win a copy. :)
This book looks great, Diane! I’m crossing my fingers!
And…. I am now one of your subscribers on Facebook!
this book looks great, thanks for the chance to enter.
Looks like a wonderful book, filled with ideas that I COULD USE! Thanks for the chance to win!
~Heidi
Thank you! I could use that book for decorating our new house.
I already follow you on Pintrest:)
I’m a follower on Facebook now too.
Looks amazing….just what I need for that lazy week between Christmas and New Years, making plans for decor changes! :0) Thanks for offering this great giveaway!
I am your newest facebook follower.
Wow that looks like a really neat book. Would love to win.
I’d love to win this – I need some guidance!
Thanks Diane for the opportunity to win such a great book! I’ve been following you and love your site; ideas, inspiration, easy to follow directions and all the rest. Would love to win – (I never win anything!) but I keep trying!
Would love to win this book!
Kara
I pinned this giveaway!
Kara
I shared on Facebook too!
Kara
I bought Holly’s book on Kindle, but it’s just not the same as having the real thing. I can’t see the pics very well and can’t interact with it the way it’s intended. I appreciate the chance to win the real thing.
What a great giveaway!! How much fun it would be to win!!
I follow you on facebook!
I’m following you on Pinterest!
I’ve been wanting this book for a while! Would love to win a copy!
I would love to win the decorate workshop book. I have encountered some roadblocks in my decorating and see I need to define what is my style.
I follow you on facebook!
I subscribe to you on Facebook.
I follow you on pinterest!
I follow you on twitter!
What a great giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win!
I follow you on pinterest (Wordsforyou)
I would love to win this book, I bet it has some great projects in it.
Looks like a fabulous book that I would just love to own!
Great give-away! I follow you on Pinterest.
Hi Diane, I just left a comment on FB.
Thanks for offering this great giveaway!
You are an amazing DIYer!!
I’d just love to have that copy, thanks for this chance.
and I did tweet the good news on giveaway)
I have a daughter that has completely stalled at decorating an old 1920 bungalow. She would love this book for Christmas.
Posted on Pinterest as well.
Sounds like a great book! I’d love to win. Thanks for such a nice give a
away.
Thanks for the opportunity. Love your blog!
I follow you on Pinterest.
I would love to win this! I am self employed and spend most of the day in my office/craft room. It is a MESS!! I need some decorating and organizing ideas. Thanks for the giveaway.
I follow on Twitter.
I subscribe on Facebook.
I follow on Pinterest.
This looks like a great book!
What a great give-away! It would be perfect f0r bringing my huge old farm house from no style to my style!
Holla at Jackie and Carol – I just moved into a 1960s split and I haven’t an ounce of design sense! I’m a hodge-podge-mess atm. Love the blog – your documentation is so clear and easy to follow. I always feel inspired in an “I could do that!” way after reading your posts!
I would love to win this book. Thanks for sharing.
This looks like a book that could really inspire you. Having a craft/living space that speaks to you and how to design one, would be a dream come true.
Awesome giveaway – count me in!!!!!
Following you on Twitter :)
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I would love to win. i def need section 2.
I need some help renewing my house. I need to understand what I really want. I need this book.
Just recently discovered Holly’s first book which had great reviews. I’m eager to see what’s in this book.
Would LOVE to have this book – I think I need to nail down my personal style!
I’m following on pinterest
I’m following on Facebook too!
The book looks wonderful and I would love to have it! Thank you for the opportunity to win!!!
I following you on FB!
And Pinterest too!!!
And Google +