Over 370 beautiful color photos capture dynamic and often fantastic rooms created by today's innovative interior designers in elegant homes across the nation for special and much anticipated events, Decorator Showhouses. Working together, interior designers and dedicated volunteers recreate the interiors of historic homes, turning ordinary rooms into masterpieces of interior design. Once completed, the doors are thrown open and the public sweeps in to be awed and inspired by the results. To top it off, the efforts benefit good causes, including expanding hospitals and other noble charity causes. Through this book, the doors have swung wide and every room can be studied in detail, from the foyer to the master suite. When you are finished studying the beautiful photographs, this engaging book also provides lists of the participating designers and other Showhouse events occurring around the nation. This book becomes an absolute treasure for anyone with a passion for interior design. AUTHOR: Tina Skinner is an award winning journalist and editor who has authored many books on home and landscape design. SELLING POINTS: Displays the best innovations in interior design today Provides lists of all interior designers featured & the showhouse events Perfect for generating ideas for consumers and designers alike ILLUSTRATIONS 377 colour photographs *