Your home shouldn’t just look pretty, it should make your life easier. And just because you have kids or pets doesn’t mean you’re sentenced to floors that are overrun with toys or furniture covered in plastic. Through never-before-seen makeovers in our own house, doable DIY projects, and a gallery of other inspiring spaces, Lovable Livable Home shows how beautiful homes can be functional too.
“Family-friendly, do-it-yourself home decorating… Modern and budget-sensitive with comfortable, highly functional rooms that are not overdecorated. The authors hit the mark on relaxed living in theory and execution.” – Publishers Weekly
“There’s no point in showing you stunningly designed spaces if you can’t actually do them. These ideas from Sherry and John Petersik… are the cure for decor boredom.” – Redbook Magazine
“Find the sweet spot where form, function and meaning align. This philosophy is at the center of the book, which is as much about imbuing the nooks and crannies of your home with personal significance as it is about practicality and aesthetics.” – The Washington Post
Along with being a New York Times Bestseller, Lovable Livable Home is also a #1 Amazon Bestseller and an Amazon Best Book Of The Year.
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Look Inside Lovable Livable Home
Press play below for a sneak peek – including a shot of our finished dining room. No more blue trim!
And in case that moved too fast for ya, here’s a still shot of our dining room as seen in the book (along with all of the details about how we got there).
Lovable Livable Home also includes photos and info about our living room makeover, along with a few other spaces like our guest room, our garage, our hall bathroom, and our half bathroom (which might be our favorite update of all).
Lovable Livable Home Book Tour Recap
We had the best time eating Burger-shaped cookies and signing ceramic animals for you guys during our 12 city book tour in 2015 (you can check out some on-the-road photos below). So a giant thanks goes out to everyone who came to our signings in Richmond, Denver, Tempe, Salt Lake City, Raleigh, Atlanta, NYC, St. Louis, Chicago, Nashville, DC, and Cincinnati! We’re so grateful to West Elm and the independent booksellers, libraries, festivals, and other venues who hosted us across the country. We wish we could have come to every nook & cranny of the globe, and if any new talks or signings get added in 2016, we’ll definitely add them to the “Upcoming Events” section above this one!
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- Richmond – NBC12 Interview with Candice Smith
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- Richmond – Yapping It Up (Photo: Jay Paul)
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- Richmond – Who are they laughing at? Us? (Photo: Jay Paul)
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- Richmond – Hometown Crowd (Photo: Jay Paul)
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- Richmond – Signing Time (Photo: Jay Paul)
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- Richmond – Old School YHL Shirt!
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- Richmond – Signing
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- Thanks Richmond! Loved kicking things off with you!
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- Denver – Hey Down There
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- Denver – Burger Cookies!
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- Denver – Here We Go!
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- Denver – Signing
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- Denver – Such concentration
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- Denver – More signing!
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- Thanks Denver – you guys were so much fun!
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- Tempe – Adios Arizona!
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- Tempe – Palomar Hotel = Pretty
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- Tempe – Look, we’re right next to Jewel… on a horse.
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- Tempe – Signing
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- Thanks Tempe! You guys were awesome!
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- Grand Canyon
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- Salt Lake – Studio 5 Interview with Brooke Walker
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- Salt Lake – Holy Batman, Batman!
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- Salt Lake – The stroller makes this shot.
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- Salt Lake – More Comic Con
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- Salt Lake – Even more Comic Con
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- Salt Lake – Yup. More Comic Con
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- Salt Lake – Even more Comic Con
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- Salt Lake – Hanging with (the very tall) Chris Loves Julia
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- Salt Lake – More Burger Cookies
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- Salt Lake – When your shoe breaks walking in… staple gun.
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- Salt Lake – Dooce!
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- Salt Lake – Intentional Blinking Picture
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- Salt Lake – Obligatory ceramic animal signing shot
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- Salt Lake – Such sweet crocheted things!
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- Salt Lake – Bye Utah!
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- Raleigh – Classy accessories for the kids, modeled by the parentals
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- Raleigh – Cate and her pretty kitchen cabinets in the book
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- Raleigh – Jordan (middle), who photographed Cate’s kitchen, and Kate (left) from The Small Things blog
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- Raleigh – A family of handmade bees!
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- Atlanta – Flying into the ATL
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- Atlanta – The beautiful B&B where we stayed… for 15 hours (Stonehurst Place)
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- Atlanta – Picture Phantom of the Opera music playing over this photo
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- Atlanta – Our first experience with body sprayers in the shower. Wowza.
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- Atlanta – On the way to the signing, acting totally normal with Katie Bower
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- Atlanta – More yummy Burgers at West Elm
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- Atlanta – Loved seeing Michelle from Ten June
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- Atlanta – How is this our first experience with a Selfie Stick?
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- Atlanta – #twinning
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- Atlanta – Got some face time with Sarah from Ugly Duckling House too
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- Atlanta – The Bowers always seem to show up with a 3 month old (last time it was Weston)
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- NYC – Landing on familiar ground
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- NYC – Taxi selfie
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- NYC – Looks like our idea for book #3 is already taken
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- NYC – Empire Hotel Lobby
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- NYC – Sometimes you gotta FaceTime the dog
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- NYC – More amazing cookies, this time from Baked Ideas
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- NYC – High school friends, living it up in the West Elm stock room
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- NYC – John’s sister lives here and popped by too. Hi Katie!
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- NYC – Oooh, artsy book signing shot
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- NYC – Jazz hands for the win
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- NYC – So I guess this is how our faces look when we talk
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- NYC – Last tour when we met Kristin she was prego with this little lady. So good to see her again!
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- NYC – A fun surprise appearance from John’s college friend Sarah!
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- NYC – Making weird faces is a given
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- St. Louis – We’re assuming that’s the Mississippi River. Sadly, no Arch sightings.
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- St. Louis – Turns out Panera goes by its original name here and the cool people just call it “Bread Co.”
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- St. Louis – The lovely people we hung out with at the County Library (Photo: Kara Smith)
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- St. Louis – Probably saying really earth shattering stuff (Photo: Kara Smith)
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- St. Louis – Totally nailing it according to this baby in the audience (Photo: Kara Smith)
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- St. Louis – Our wax figure impressions were dead on (Photo: Kara Smith)
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- St. Louis – Our favorite part, meeting you guys! (Photo: Kara Smith)
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- St. Louis – CHEESE! (Photo: Kara Smith)
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- St. Louis – Bloggers Dave & Joi brought their newborn son for us to keep, I mean, meet!
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- St. Louis – That time we were reunited with our old kitchen stools, which Tyra bought from us two years ago
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- Chicago – Flying in (alas, the skyline was on the other side)
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- Chicago – WGN Newsroom for a little live project demo.
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- Chicago – Just fake singing on the WGN sound stage
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- Chicago – The Public Chicago was so “minimal chic”
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- Chicago – Loved stopping in to see Nicole from Making It Lovely.
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- Chicago – More Burger cookies at West Elm!
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- Chicago – First paint roller signing of the tour!
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- Chicago – Allison & Jeremy from the book!
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- Chicago – Photo prompt: John won an Emmy and we were pissed.
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- Chicago – Nicole & Calvin made it to the signing too!
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- Chicago – Jaime & AJ from the book!
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- Chicago – First non-cookie dog to attend a signing
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- Chicago – So great to see Jeromy again (he’s the West Elm manager we befriended last tour)
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- Nashville – Beautiful sky flying in to Tennessee
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- Nashville – The view from our interview couch at WTVF
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- Nashville – We met Ellen! (Clarification: cardboard Ellen)
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- Nashville – The adorable coffee trailer outside the TV station
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- Nashville – The hilarious room where we gave our decorating talk / passed new legislation
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- Nashville – Signing time!
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- Nashville – Super long author table inspired lots of amazing squat-posing
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- Nashville – All smiles, despite impending thunderstorms
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- Nashville – Of course it thunderstorms during our only outdoor signing…
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- DC – Loving this wood wall at West Elm (ok, and all of those books).
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- DC – A two-story line. Yikes! Thanks to everyone who came and waited!
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- DC – Oooh, wine and snacks!
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- DC – Burger cookies en masse. Yum.
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- DC – Erin & Kara came back to give us a sign language refresher.
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- DC – Loved seeing John’s high school friend Emily!
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- DC – We met Danielle in Miami last time. This time she flew to DC! AMAZING!
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- DC – Kai (and her twins) from the book!
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- Cincinnati – After a long flight? Always candy. Giant candy.
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- Cincinnati – Sent these pics to Clara. She requested the giant pink & blue lollypop.
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- Cincinnati – Snagged breakfast with our favorite House Tweak-er, Dana!
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- Cincinnati – Betcha didn’t think we could photobomb ourselves…
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- Cincinnati – Tiny John in the background wins.
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- Cincinnati – We loved meeting big time author (and table neighbor) Kevin Kwan!
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- Cincinnati – So much fun to see this smiley trio again!
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- Cincinnati – Sweet Riley grew a lot bigger since we met her on our first tour!
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- Cincinnati – Including book covers there are 4 Sherrys in this picture.
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- Cincinnati – Sara from the book!
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- Cincinnati – We met the Pope! (Clarification: cardboard Pope)
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- Cincinnati – Bye Ohio! What a pretty way to wrap up the tour.
