where literature and design collide

I’ve always believed that interior design and decorating was about something more than pretty rooms filled with beautiful things.  A home is where life happens, and for me decorating our home is about about creating the setting of our story.  And the setting of a story, well, I don’t have to tell you how important the setting is to a great story.  Maybe it’s the book nerd in me, but I live for a great setting!  I am after all, the girl who dreams of one day visiting The Shire.  

So back in December while I was perusing the book store (one of my favorite things to do) I passed by this book and was immediately captivated by the cover.  Hellooooooo gorgeous red interior! 
Novel Interiors review and giveaway
Then the book nerd in me was drawn like a moth to a flame after reading “living in enchanted rooms inspired by literature”.  As I flipped through I immediately realized, I NEEDED this book.  I also decided that my mom needed it and so did one of you lucky readers! 
This book beautifully laces together literature and design.  
Novel Interiors
It’s not only filled with gorgeous inspiration……..
novel interiors
novel interiors book review
novel interiors  - book review
but it’s also filled with real, practical design advice. 
novel interiors  - book review
This isn’t a design book you look through once and then let it collect dust on your coffee table.  This is a book you read and re-read, you flip through and earmark, you pour over again and again.  Which is exactly why I picked up an extra copy for one of you!  
To enter this giveaway simply leave a comment telling me your favorite book setting……and it’s perfectly okay with me if it happens to be Forks.  😉   I’ll choose a winner next Thursday.  Make sure you leave your email address if you’re a no-reply commenter so I can let you know if you win! 

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  • A children's book, "The Four Story Mistake" has always held my imagination as the perfect "home". This sounds like a beautiful book. Thank you for the giveaway!

  • This book looks amazing! My favorite scene: when the Bennett family in "Pride and Prejudice" is all gathered in their living room working on their own projects.

  • I'd have to go with Hogwarts, of course! I could choose a million…Pemberley, West Egg, St. Malo (just finished All the Light We Cannot See), Harlem…books take me all over!

  • Oh, I think I'd have to go with BookWorld from the Thursday Next books. I'd love to see it. From a decorating point of view, though, I think I'd probably go with Pemberly…

  • This book looks amazing! I'm already in awe looking at it and thinking about living in the home of my dreams and of the books I read. I'm a fan of pat conroy and I keep thinking about the southern houses looking over the beach with waves crashing. But, the furniture is simple and you can sit everywhere and anywhere. Thanks for making me smile and get inspired with your blog.
    Lizzi Galland
    Lizzigalland@gmail.com

  • My favorite settings are always in the novels of Elin Hildrebrand. The novels always take place on Nantucket Island. Not only is Nantucket the setting but "she" is always the perfect supporting character to the storyline. "Her" charm, easy going go with the flow comfortable attitude and elegance are what I aspire to and envision for my own home.
    dawkins2004@gmail.com

  • I La-la-LOVEEEE books like these!! I would definitely love to add it to my collection.
    My favorite book setting would definitely have to be somewhere totally unlike my own city, Philadelphia. The most memorable to me would be in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants when Lena visits Greece. In the book she walks around the city and draws what she sees. I just love the way they described it.

  • Love this! My favorite book settings: Prince Edward Island, Pemberly, Hogwarts, or any quaint English village. Forks was actually my favorite real-life destination when I lived in Seattle! It's not my favorite book setting though ; )

  • Tara in Gone with the Wind. I read the book for the first time when I was 14 (my Nana's old copy). And it totally struck me how Tara went through its own changes, more as a character than just a setting.

    Laura
    Myerchinsklaroff @gmail.com

  • I would have to say Hogwarts as well. Paintings that come to life, cozy tapestries, and a roaring fire, with Sirius Black for company? Yes, please!

  • What a great find! I love that you are giving a copy away. Recently I read the book "the husbands secret". It was set in a small town in Australia. I felt like I could see every aspect of that town and the homes of the characters. I love books that transport us somewhere else.

  • Ok, the book that comes to mind is Fancy Nancy! I loved reading this to my NOW 15 year old daughter! Fancy Nancy's bedroom was so posh, " that's a fancy word for fancy". My daughter always wanted her bedroom to be fancy because of this book! And truth be told, I secretly wanted a boa or two in my room as well! Fabulous giveaway! Thanks for a chance!
    Qmellett@carolina.rr.com

  • By all means, "The Shell Seekers" by Rosamunde Pilcher and her darling little place in Temple Pudley. I have read this book every summer for 8 years now, and it makes me homesick for a place I've never been! Cozy, shabby and loved!

  • I live in a lighthouse keeper's house next to a lighthouse, and I so wish I could share it with others! the only way I know to do that is to have an open house for the public every year at Christmas. It's so much fun!

  • Is it just me or does anyone else want to revamp Miss. Havisham's house. Just reading Great Expectations makes me want to completely remodel and update her house and garden. Come on lady, I know you're depressed and a little senile but your house could be so beautiful!

  • I'm torn between Hogwarts and Anne's Ingleside home she made with Gilbert, though Green Gables was nice also. Magic or charm – how do you choose?

  • Of course I have always loved Pemberley, but years ago I fell in love with Luberon in the Rhone Valley from, A Year In Provence. I dream of drinking pastis surrounded by fields of grapes and lavender.

  • Oh! So many to chose from! I loved all the books of Anne of Green Gables and would love to gaze out those windows or sit on the porch with Marilla.
    Cindy Brooks
    someluckydog at gmail dot com

  • My favorite would have to be anything southern (Tara from Gone with the Wind, the houses/rooms from Mary Kay Andrew's novels, or the Savannah mansion in Midnight in the Garden of Good ad Evil by John Berendt).

  • What a fun and super giveaway! I have read the author of this book's blog for years now, and I have anxiously awaited the release of this book! However, I haven't been able to come up with a "good enough" excuse to purchase it yet! It is too much pressure to pic my favorite book interior, but some of my current favorites are as follows. Eloise Wilkin, a children's book author paints these idyllic, sweet, homey, and colorful scenes that are so darling! I just got finished reading Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson, and the interiors are set in the 20s, sleek, feminine, delicate, full of silk and pretty things. It's fun to transport myself to these girly rooms considering my house is full of sweet stinky little boys. ☺️ Also, I've always loved interiors in Frances Hodgson Burnett books. She wrote The Secret Garden and A Little Princess. Another thing I love to read about in books beside interiors is beautiful meals created. There's a book call Literary Feasts that has been on my book list for a long while that I want to read. Ok, I'll hush now. ?

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