My 2013 Book List!

The year I rented my first flat I also started my library of books about homemaking, housekeeping and interiors. For a long while this is what I spent my money on – books – and in the course of collection I have ended up with hundreds of beautiful coffee table odes to all that is lovely in the domestic arena.
But prowling around my bookcases last night it struck me that at some point I stopped buying the kind of books that make my heart sing and that my collection of large picture books pays tribute to the interiors of  1995 to 2005 and then dwindles significantly…

I cannot pinpoint a reason for this. Certainly my library use has increased since then and a little man called Finley seems to eat all my spare cash for breakfast. Or perhaps it is because the constant feed of images on the internet satisfies my urge for daily inspiration, not to mention the all-purveying lure of the now ubiqtuous e-reader and the one-click route to literary joy.

But I miss big lovely books. I miss sitting with the evidence of true style in my hands. Sniffing the paper and pouring over images I would die to replicate in my own home. And so this morning as I opened my January Puttery Companion and decided it was time to make my book list for 2013, I resolved to buy one beautiful interiors book every month this year so that by the end of 2013 I will have an updated shelf full of interior pretty and will be able to take a little bit of inspiration to bed with my chamomile tea…

Here’s my list of  longed for books: some not yet released and some I have been yearning for, for a while…

January…

The Vintage Tea Party Year by Angel Adoree

February…

Junk Style by Melanie Molesworth

March…

Liberty Love by Alexa Marcellie Abegg

April…

Heirloom Modern by Hollister Hovey

May…

A Life Less Ordinary by Alex Legendre and Zoe Ellison

June…

The Where Women Create Book of Organization by Jo Packham

July…

Decorating With White by Gina Hyams

August…

The New Eighteenth Century Home byMichele Lelande

September…

Decorate Workshop by Holly Becker

October…

The Life of a BowerBird by Sibella Court

November…

Designers At Home by Ronda Rice Carman

December…

Pretty Pastel Style by Selina Lake

Happy reading Housekeepers!