Sassy Tips: Renovation (Nicole sassaman)

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About the Author

Celebrity interior designer, Nicole Sassaman, had built and remodeled homes in California from Beverly Hills to Malibu including one of Greta Barbo's famous estates. She is most famous for her bathroom and kitchen renovations, and is internationally known for her modern design. Two of Nicole's kitchen s were given the prestigious honor by Viking Range Corporation as some of the very best designs. You can see the full Viking kitchen that she designed where Wolfgang Puck and many other celebrity chefs have whipped up some fabulous dishes on her website at nicolesassaman.com. You will also see many of her other designs there. SHe has appeared on numerous HGTV shows including HGTV Top 10 and teamed up with DIFFA to create many fabulous table designs for their ongoing events to raise money for AIDS. She has been in most all design magazines ranging from Architectural Digest to Gourmet magazine to name a few! She believes in designing any life that you wants and always looks to inspire you in any way that she can!

March 11, 2014, Los Angeles, CA  -- Hot on the heels of her 100^th complete home renovation, celebrity interior designer and master home flipper Nicole Sassaman announced the release of her new book, 100 Sassy Tips: Renovations today.  Filled with practical and time-saving advice, the beautifully photographed book is a must-read for anyone looking for remodeling inspiration.  Nicole’s seasoned, no-nonsense advice is culled from her two decades buying, rehabbing and selling real estate in some of Los Angeles’s most recognizable neighborhoods.

100 Sassy Tips’s nine chapters each tackle a different space within the home: Kitchen, Bathroom, Bedroom, Living Room, Dining Room, Office, Sound Studio, Details and Outdoors.  Examples are designed to help homeowners add as much value as possible to their homes – whether they are working on a shoestring budget or have the goal of ultimate luxury (like having towel warmers in the bathroom).

Key takeaway tips from the book include:

#10 - For open-plan kitchens, use pendant lighting to subtly define the boundary between kitchen and living/dining room (pg 35)

#39 - Never overlook the opportunity to create storage – even a privacy half-wall between the bathtub and toilet can be creatively utilized for storage and display areas (pg 86)

# 59 – Keep it simple – you don’t always need a mantel over a fireplace. Sometimes a beautiful fireplace is a work of art all its own (pg 128)

My thoughts:

This book is a great book.    We are in the process of renovating our bedroom, and are going to incorporate the closet ideas from this book.  My husband is a carpenter and loved the idea from this book.  Especially the idea of removing the soffits in the closet to create more storage.

My mother in law is in the beginning stages of a big addition to her home, and we  showed her some ideas from the book.  There are quite a few different kitchen ideas, and she has her eye set on a couple.  She especially liked the kitchen ones. 

This book is very colorful, and shows before and after pictures. The designs in this book are absolutely beautiful.  If you are looking to renovate, add on to your home or just make changes to your existing rooms, this is a book you must look at.  

For more information to order this book go to Amazon.

***Please note that I received no form of monetary compensation for this post. The opinions expressed in the review are my own and were not influenced in any way.***