Award-winning blogger Frida Ramstedt shares insights and advice on how to make sure the furniture you buy doesn’t just look good but is also well-made, long-lasting and, most importantly, comfortable to use every day. Inspired by her rich Scandinavian furniture design heritage and filled with insider tips, The Furnishing Handbook is an indispensable guide to finding the pieces that work best for your body and home.

‘Ramstedt advises us to look away from social media to create the nurturing homes we need’ The Times

What looks good and why?

Design consultant Frida Ramstedt runs Scandinavia’s leading interior design blog. In this book she distils the secrets of successful interior design and styling to help you create a home that works best for your space, taste and lifestyle. Filled with practical tips, rules-of-thumb and tricks of the trade, The Interior Design Handbook will help you to think like a professional designer.

‘Frida has created this BIBLE to interior design … such useful info that has taken me years to learn, all in one place’ Rebecca Wakefield, Studio Fortnum

‘Beautifully illustrated with handy line drawings … The Interior Design Handbook gets down to the nitty gritty of successfully putting a room together’ Fabric Magazine

‘Take it to bed and you’ll be utterly engrossed and elightened’ Stylist