Feel Free Home

By: Leanne Ford

Published by Abrams, Incorporated, 2026-05-12

<b>Designer and HGTV personality Leanne Ford shares her fresh, "do your home your way" approach and her freeing design process for loosening up, thinking differently, and creating a warm and soulful home for all to enjoy</b><br> <br> <br> <br> <i>Feel Free Home</i> is the art of free-thinking home design. It's permission to listen to your heart about what feels right in <i>your</i> space, and to use each room as your own creative canvas. Join Leanne Ford as she shares ideas for creating warm, lovely, and livable surroundings tailored to you and your family--and encourages you to be bold and to do your home your way.<br> <br> <br> <br> In this practical guide, Ford presents design tricks and techniques learned through her decades-long career of renovating, repairing, restoring, and decorating houses. Her savvy advice is a breath of fresh air for real-world home design: <ul> <li>Don't be too perfect or you will lose the charm and homeyness of a space.</li> <li>Keep what you can and reuse what you have--in with the old!</li> <li>Painting anything gives it new life</li> <li>Less is more--and undone can be beautiful.</li> <li>Silly solutions are sometimes the best</li> </ul> <br> <br> Each chapter offers readers down-to-earth decorating ideas, design hacks, and a wealth of how-to recipes for creating wall textures, exposed ceilings, painted floors, low-cost kitchen and bath makeovers, and much more. You will come away empowered, inspired, and with a new perspective on how to make your home more joyful, relaxed, and just right for you.