Vern Yip’s Design Wise: Your Smart Guide to a Beautiful Home

HGTV and Trading Spaces’ trusted interior designer Vern Yip shares his favorite design secrets to creating living spaces that have flow, balance, and harmony -- while opening his doors to show how he’s made these principles work in his own beloved homes. This New York Times bestseller provides both the inspiration and the clear, essential guidelines you need to create a home that perfectly reflects you.

Have you ever wondered exactly how high to hang your artwork? How about the light fixture over your dining table? Do you know how to ideally size a rug for any room, or the best way to arrange your furniture? Beloved designer Vern Yip answers these questions, and more, by revealing the right formulas and measurements that can make any room feel just ＂right.＂ And once you know these key design principles, you’re free to confidently create a home that uniquely celebrates your needs and style. With gorgeous photos throughout, Vern Yip’s Design Wise is a book you’ll return to again and again.

Vern Yip has designed his way across America, having reconfigured countless homes during four season’s on TLC’s Trading Spaces, NBC’s Home Intervention, his own HGTV shows Deserving Design with Vern Yip and HGTV’s Urban Oasis, and through his private practice Vern Yip Designs in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been a constant as a beloved judge on 8 seasons of HGTV’s hit summer series, HGTV Design Star as well on his own special, Live In Vern’s House. He has his own column in HGTV magazine and manages his own brand, Vern Yip Home, available at select retailers. This year, he created a line of lighting accessories that launched in Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus.

Vern and his family divide their time between their homes in Atlanta, Manhattan, and Florida’s Panhandle.