Product Description

A stylish, informative interior design guide that combines practical and aesthetic solutions for people who want to create an exceptional home for themselves and their pets-now in paperback. Animal House Style is the first decorating book to offer practical advice for pet owners on how to select high-performance furnishings for maximum human, canine, feline, and other animal comfort. Most important, it features what steps can be taken to keep your pet-friendly interiors looking their best, and other vital information rarely found in design magazines, such as which tools to use for cleaning, what kinds of paint to apply, what fabrics are best for upholstery, as well as a section on pet safety.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #625707 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

About the Author
Julia Szabo writes the 'Pets' column for the Sunday New York Post and the 'Truth in Decorating' column for Elle D cor.

Customer Reviews

Pretty, Not Practical.
Animal House Style is one beautiful coffee table book. But truely, it is only a coffee table book. It has beautiful pictures of pets on beautiful designer furniture. But not the greatest advice for caring for a home with pets.

Let's get real here, I have a yellow lab that loves to lounge on my dark gray couch. The advice the author gives for removing pet hair from your couch is to get a strong vacuum cleaner! Um yeah, I would have never thought of that without reading this book! Or you can use a roll of tape to remove pet hair from your clothes! Hmmm, that is truely a new idea!

You can tell that Julia Szabo is a true animal lover, and she does have an amazing sense of style. But most of the home decor is way over my price range, like the Gucci bet she got her pit bull. It probebly cost more than my bed! Animal House Style does make you more aware of animal sensativity to house cleaning chemicals and what are good alternatives to your Clorox cleaners. But that is about the only practical advice this book has to offer.

If you are looking for a book with some really cute dog picks Animal House Style is a great pick. But if you are looking for viable solutions to living with pets, don't get this book.

not what i hoped for
This is a book about homes that have a pet in them. I wished for a book that was homes where pets were included in the design.
Pretty pictures not much use.

Pra-cat-ical and terrier-ific advice
The perfect gift book, for wedding, housewarming or any occasion, so long as the recipient is a pet owner. They will thank you profusely, for helping them decorate with their kitty or pup in mind. After reading this terrier-ific book, I realized my home is definitely decorated in a style I think of as classically Boston Terrier black and white. The hair blends in perfectly, so who cares? Arlene Millman, author of BOOMERANG - A MIRACLE TRILOGY (The tale of a remarkable Boston Terrier).