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Call It Home: The Details That Matter Hardcover – October 17, 2023

by Amber Lewis (Author), Shade Degges (Photographer), Cat Chen (Contributor)
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Through gorgeous photography and heartfelt essays, the interior designer and author of Made for Living reveals her detail-oriented approach to renovating, decorating, and building a beautiful home.

The details can make a room. The bullnose edge of a marble countertop. The wood grain and color of the flooring. The particular pleat of the drape. Amber Lewis, the esteemed designer known for her signature California-inspired style, obsesses over the tiniest of features to create her eclectic, laid-back look. In Call It Home, she shares her secrets to choosing and applying fabric, paint, finishes, tile, flooring, and more for a beautifully designed home, shortcutting the often-overwhelming decision-making process. 

Amberwalks you through eight new homes she designed—including her own—and the thought processes behind every major choice. Whether you're decorating one room, renovating your entire house, or planning new construction, she shares how to approach a project from start to finish, guiding you on how to find the right team so you can get the perfect results. Then she takes you through mountain retreats and surfside homes, dreamy escapes she’s created by pulling inspiration from the surrounding property for a look that’s unique to each home. Through personal essays, you’ll learn how she set about the project, what challenges her team faced, and the materials she used to achieve the finished result.

With more than 200 gorgeous images of livings rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, entryways, bedrooms, and baths, you'll have photographs of Amber’s details on hand when you're ready to create your own collection of stunning spaces—and call it home.
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About the Author

Author of Made for Living and interior designer Amber Lewis is the principal and founder of Amber Interiors, a full-service firm that provides designs for everything from large-scale residences to extensive commercial projects. Amber and her team collaborate with architects and contractors to bring to life the distinct visions seen in her work, on her blog, and in her retail shop.

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I have always placed great value on the importance of our living spaces to our quality of life. Of course, we all know the age-old saying “Home is where the heart is,” but home is also where I find inspiration, emotional security, and all-around peace. Many of us have been fortunate enough to also learn that a home can also be where we work and even where we take our “staycations.” While it might start out as a structure with four walls and a roof, a home can be transformed into a place that also brings comfort.

Spending the last decade as an interior designer has truly been a joy. With my company, Amber Interiors, I found my niche, and I now have not only a career doing what I love most, but also a platform on which to share my life’s work with others. I do not take this responsibility lightly, and with each new project I embark upon, I strive to create better spaces—for my clients, for myself, and for anyone following along on social media.

Still, as any designer knows, when it comes to designing a unique space—one that isn’t merely a lather-rinse-repeat of the same room over and over—the struggle is real. Thanks to the Internet, we are all exposed, time and again, to images of interiors that lack that special, timeless quality that makes a space unique. Oversaturation of any one trend can make it difficult to define and hone your own style. After all, it can be hard to differentiate what everyone else is doing from what genuinely resonates with you.

For years, I have been homing in on my personal aesthetic and have tried to push myself creatively. But even I—a professional designer who should know better—have fallen prey to a design fad or two, only to ask myself a few years down the road, What was I thinking? So, in order to pull together all the elements of a space I am designing without getting caught up in passing fancies, I have learned to ask myself a few key questions:

• Will I like this design element a decade from now?

• Will this design look like it was done in [insert year] or at any point over the last fifty years?

• Is this design a true reflection of my personal aesthetic?

• Does this design feel one-of-a-kind, or like something I have seen done time and time again?

When designing a home, you find yourself asking a lot of questions like these and struggling to come up with the answers. In writing this second book, I have aimed to create a framework for simplifying this complicated process.

I want to help you find your personal style!

While I’ve been a professional interior designer for more than fifteen years, I’ve been at this design thing in one form or another for as long as I can remember. (Picking paint colors before the age of ten totally counts, right?) As with my design aesthetic and personal taste, things were quite different when I started Amber Interiors in 2011. Back then, the furniture and home spaces were dedicated mainly to the likes of national retailers, and my current design and entrepreneurial heroes were only starting to pave the way for an evolution in interior design, at least in the digital world. I started dabbling in DIY, made pillows, restored furniture—I documented everything and shared my work with whoever cared to read about it on the internet.

My approach to it all was quite simple: to be the most genuine version of myself by doing what I loved most, which was to create and design. I was starting from scratch in what was, for me, uncharted territory, and I had nothing to lose. I thought, What could go wrong? Well—I learned—a lot! It turns out that, when building a home, nothing is guaranteed, but you can hang your hat on good old Murphy’s Law.

Still, you’ve gotta roll with the punches. As a budding designer and a hardheaded, fiercely determined person to the core, I had some lofty goals I was hell-bent on achieving. Did this happen within the timeline I hoped for? Absolutely not. Frankly, I’m still working on a few of them, and on some days, I just want to give up. It has taken years of trial and error—building a strong, dependable team and taking a few risky chances on unknowns—to get to where I am today. Above all, it was important for me to stay true to what I believed in—so, I opted out of taking on investors. I started making moves toward immediate financial independence so that I could retain control of how my business operated, both logistically and creatively. It wasn’t easy to build a business this way, but looking back on it now, I wouldn’t change a thing.

I often think about my design career as a journey, one that started with a deep love of nature and the outdoors inspired by the places I visited as a child and by the California beach where I grew up. Decorating window displays in retail shops in my early twenties led me to discover myself and to focus my energies on what is now known as Amber Interiors. Then I came to the most recent and jarring mile-stone in my journey. In 2020, right before I turned forty, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (more commonly known as MS). The diagnosis rocked my world, of course, but it also, ultimately, gave me a level of strength and perseverance I didn’t know I possessed.

When I look back on that journey now, I see it as necessary to constructing the foundation for everything I currently have in my life. My experiences, good and bad, have made me who I am today. I have had to make countless tough decisions and sacrifices to get to where I am now, to experience many things, both positive and negative, until I learned to trust my instincts. This doesn’t mean I get it right every time. In fact, I can promise you I don’t always. My point is that you grow with your journey, and I have so much to share about mine.

If you’ve read my first book, Made for Living, you may see some noticeable differences between this book and that one. Chalk it up to evolution: I have learned so much about myself and about interior design over the past couple of years. In that earlier book, I focus on my stylistic preferences when designing a space. In these pages, I’m going to take you through the details, and specifics involved, when designing several homes.

So, let’s get personal, let’s talk business, and, of course, let’s share design.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarkson Potter (October 17, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593235525
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593235522
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.24 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.27 x 1.18 x 10.28 inches
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Amber Lewis is a seasoned interior designer and multi-hyphenate in the interiors and décor space. Grounded in a signature West Coast aesthetic that she describes as “laid back” and “understated cool,” Amber is first and foremost the founder of a full-service design firm, Amber Interiors, touting clients across the country.

Amber is also founder of Shoppe Amber Interiors, the brick-and-mortar retail shop that brings the effortless and timeless feeling of her interiors to a shoppable setting. Amber’s eclectic design approach and affinity for found objects is now available to everyone at her four California locations in Calabasas, Pacific Palisades, Newport Beach, Marin, as well as an online Shoppe.

In recent years, she has expanded her business into a successful, multi-year furniture and décor collaboration with Anthropologie, multi-year rug and textiles collaboration with Loloi, multi-year lighting line with Visual Comfort, and most recently published a best-selling interior design book, Made for Living.

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Amy Stevens
5.0 out of 5 stars It’s the details that take a home from good to great.
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2023
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Hands down my favorite interior designer…I’ve been eagerly awaiting this new book by Amber Lewis and I would say this is some of her best work yet! Beautiful photography and designs on every page. 

What I am most impressed with is the amount of architectural detail that was added to these homes to infuse character and to make them look much older than they are. I love the earthy color palette and all of the wood, stone, and natural materials. The paired back warm tones used in many of these designs I find to be tasteful and elevated. 

This book is organized by project rather than by topic. I can't decide if I like this format better or not. The text doesn't tie together as well, but it's a much more cohesive look this way. There is still plenty of great advice just like in her first book, but the advice is heavily focused on the details (especially on materials used). She explains why these details are so important and gives them the attention they deserve, and really the photos are proof of this. I'm inspired for sure! Amber Lewis has an online store shoppe.amberinteriordesign.com with ideas of how you can bring her signature look into your own home. There's a variety of items at all different price points, so there's something for everyone. Some of her Loloi rugs are beautiful and very affordable!
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5.0 out of 5 stars It’s the details that take a home from good to great.
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2023
Hands down my favorite interior designer…I’ve been eagerly awaiting this new book by Amber Lewis and I would say this is some of her best work yet! Beautiful photography and designs on every page. 

What I am most impressed with is the amount of architectural detail that was added to these homes to infuse character and to make them look much older than they are. I love the earthy color palette and all of the wood, stone, and natural materials. The paired back warm tones used in many of these designs I find to be tasteful and elevated. 

This book is organized by project rather than by topic. I can't decide if I like this format better or not. The text doesn't tie together as well, but it's a much more cohesive look this way. There is still plenty of great advice just like in her first book, but the advice is heavily focused on the details (especially on materials used). She explains why these details are so important and gives them the attention they deserve, and really the photos are proof of this. I'm inspired for sure! Amber Lewis has an online store shoppe.amberinteriordesign.com with ideas of how you can bring her signature look into your own home. There's a variety of items at all different price points, so there's something for everyone. Some of her Loloi rugs are beautiful and very affordable!
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Molly M. Rooker
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, inspirational photos
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The book is done beautifully, with lots of inspiration photos for your next home reno project.
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Deborah L. Guido
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Book!
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This book is one of my favorites with regard to home decor. Beautifully written and wonderful photographs. Buy it for yourself or as a gift. You won't be disappointed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous book!
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Gorgeous photos! It’s one of those books you will want to keep forever!
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William S. Vaughan
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice book, but
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Very informative but the choice to use white font on light colored paper every dozen or so pages is highly questionable. Pretty much illegible for me.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Nice book, but
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Very informative but the choice to use white font on light colored paper every dozen or so pages is highly questionable. Pretty much illegible for me.
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Maryna
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2024
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Thanks so much to those people who posted video review, because it is so hard to find a home design book with quality pictures and really good designs! The book is magnificent and pictures are so big, inspiring and beautiful I could almost feel to the touch every couch, table and chair, it’s that good:))
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2024
Thanks so much to those people who posted video review, because it is so hard to find a home design book with quality pictures and really good designs! The book is magnificent and pictures are so big, inspiring and beautiful I could almost feel to the touch every couch, table and chair, it’s that good:))
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous Photos of the Updated Design Aesthetic of Amber Lewis
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2023
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I loved Amber Lewis's first book, Made for Living, and used a lot of advice contained in that book to update my home. I preordered her second book and was thrilled when it finally arrived. The pictures are beautiful. The updated design aesthetic Ms. Lewis displays is warmer, cozier, more rustic and inviting than the cooler, more spacious designs from her previous (pre-2020) work. I like this book even better, probably because I prefer a warmer color palette to the cooler one that was in style 5 years ago.
This book describes the thought process behind each design rather than the specific design tips regarding choices of paint color, finishes, styling "rules," and techniques used to incorporate vintage furniture, etc. This makes for a more interesting reading experience, however, I miss the specific recommendations of paint colors used in each room, especially since the colors seem to be very different than those listed in her previous book.
Overall, I gave this book 5 stars because it is a stunning work of art by a very talented interior designer. I decided not to take away a star for the unfortunate decision to place white text on a light background (making a few of the pages in the book unreadable) because I feel this is the fault of the publisher rather than the book's author.
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Jetta
5.0 out of 5 stars QUALITY. EXACTLY WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT. LOTS OF PHOTOS-GOOD ONES.
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024
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WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT. LOTS OF PICTURES AND OF BEAUTIFUL ROOMS AND DECOR, JUST WHAT I LOOK FOR IN A GOOD BOOK. LOTS OF PHOTOS, NOT WORDS. PHOTOS.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lindo
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Livro bonito e de boa qualidade.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
Reviewed in Canada on March 8, 2024
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She did it again! This book is an absolute masterpiece!
It’s absolutely beautiful. The bad thing is, you’ll want to change everything in your house after looking at this book. Be aware!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente libro
Reviewed in Mexico on February 9, 2024
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Cuenta con varias imágenes para buscar inspiración, me llegó en buen estado.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book but
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Beautiful book but received with slightly damaged corners :(
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