Let me begin by stating that I am an interior designer so I look for very unique and clever ways to design and decorate. I figured this book would be filled with inspiration and new ideas to be inspired by, being that it is supposed to be a collective of Metropolitan Home Magazine's best interior shots.
Unfortunately I didn't find anything that I felt was inspirational or "new". Page after page was filled with expected design schemes and nothing that really knocked my socks off.
Again, I come form a place of harsh critique but I did expect a little more from Met Home. Maybe this is a glipmse of why the magazine has gone belly up!
I would not buy this book again if I had the second opportunity, if you know what I mean.

I was expecting really good ideas on glitz and glamour it was very disappointing. Not worth the money.

For all of us who are devastated at the closing of Metropolitan Home magazine, this book is a little consolation prize now that there isn't that monthly treat of the magazine's arrival. It is quintessential Met Home Modern, but with a wonderful overlay of spectacular and helpful designer quotes. Each chapter highlights a specific area of the home, and each is filled with extraordinary yet "doable" ideas to freshen most any home--from a small apartment to a huge house. GREAT gift!

DWC

Love this book!!!!! It is fresh and beautiful and inspiring--truly an amazing resource. The loss of Metropolitan Home magazine is a huge disappointment; fortunately this book offers some consolation for the magazine's loyal readers.

I will admit that there are a few (3 to be exact) fireplace pages that are interesting, one of which wasn't mentioned in the fireplace section of the book. I took the words "making it modern" to mean just that, but was greatly fooled unless "modern" means combing the attic for what you can find from yester-year and combining it with a few new pieces. "Making it personal" would have been a more appropriate title. The section on bedrooms appears to be page after page of those old items with a few modern pieces thrown in to produce an assortment of overcrowded rooms. When I read "modern" I believe that NOW is what it means and not 'today's guide for estate sale shopping.' Sorry. My understanding of "modern" in decorating indicates a sense of the future, sleek furnishings and perhaps even a tribute to less-is-more but certainly not more-of-yesterday.

This is truly an elegant book. The photography is spectacular and the subject matter does intrigue the mind for your own home

This book is lovely. The photographs are beautiful. The text offers an inspiring point of view on Glamour and personal style. Very pleased.

If you are anything like me and buy design books for beautiful and inspiring photos you will not be disappointed in this book! Color, style, originality it's all here... Gorgeous!

If you like sophisticated, fresh, glamorous design, which is very popular now, you'll enjoy the pictures and quotes from designers in this book. It's a great collection of the most up-to-date, livable contemporary design in one book, that has a sophisticated, glamorous edge. Elements of glamorous decor, whether they be chandeliers or daybeds, are combined in successful rooms utilizing the design so you see how rooms can be put together in an original way. This book should be in style for some time as it integrates classic elements of glamour with the more contemporary enactments of it.

The book definitely has a modern edge as the cover picture demonstrates, although I liked some rooms inside better than the cover picture. There's an eclectic mix inside to inspire you.