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A no-nonsense method for designing your own super stylish home. The popular host of HGTVs Carter Can, Million Dollar Rooms,and Red, Hot & Green now offers homeowners a book featuring his empowering home-design method.
Carter Oosterhouse knows how real people live and how intimidating home design can be. With his reassuring, you can do it attitude, he goes out of his way to show readers how to create realistic design elements that they can implement with basic tools and a little DIY experience. His mission is to bring peoples imaginations to life. The design features he constructs use materials easily found, are budget-conscious, and whenever possible environmentally friendly.

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Copyright 2013 by Carter Oosterhouse ALL RIGHTS RESERVED No part of this book - photo 1

Copyright 2013 by Carter Oosterhouse

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed to Globe Pequot Press, Attn: Rights and Permissions Department, PO Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437.

Lyons Press is an imprint of Globe Pequot Press.

Text design: Sheryl P. Kober

Project editors: Kristen Mellitt and Tracee Williams

Layout artist: Melissa Evarts

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Oosterhouse, Carter.

Carters way : a no-nonsense method for designing your own super stylish home / Carter Oosterhouse.

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Summary: Carter Oosterhouse, the popular host of HGTVs Carter Can, Million Dollar Rooms, and Red, Hot & Green, now offers homeowners a book featuring his simple, straightforward and super successful home-design process. He knows that home design can be intimidating, but his reassuring you can do it attitude encourages readers to use their imaginations and convinces them that they too can use his method to easily create beautiful living rooms, bedroom, kitchens, baths, and more!Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-0-7627-8967-2

1. Interior decoration. I. Peterson, Chris. II. Title.

NK2115.O59 2012

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CARTERS
WAY

E verything is possible Anyone can cook Give someone a bunch of ingredients - photo 2

E verything is possible. Anyone can cook. Give someone a bunch of ingredients, and 30 minutes later they have a meal. Carter feels the same way about homeowners. Give someone design basics, and a project is underway. With even the smallest tasks, Carter takes the same approach with homeowners that I do with cooks in the kitchen. His advice and designs are creative, helpful, attainable, and inspiring, AND he even calls the kitchen the hub of the house. Thats my kind of guy!

Ive turned to Carter numerous times on my daytime talk show, for help redesigning kitchens, offices, bathrooms, bedrooms, and beyond. You name it and he does itWELL! His results always inspire the audience. I cant say Im a DIY girl myself, but when Carter is on the show, he turns me into a believer and a doer. Ive also had the pleasure of working with him on some of my most memorable shows and proudest moments to date. Ive watched him passionately give back to communitiesfrom renovating a culinary classroom at a high school in Philadelphia to redesigning a soup kitchen in Wilmington, Ohio, so more hungry people could get a warm meal and a little dignity. Through projects like these, Carter has helped change the lives of so many, and now hes ready to provide you with solutions to even the most difficult tasks.

It is so important to feel at home in your own home. With Carters Million Dollar Perspective and his thoughtful tips throughout this book, readers will have the tools to transform their home into their own space. You know youll find me in the kitchen!

Rachael Ray

I was just eleven years old when my dad sat me down next to the family Ford, facing the left front tire. He said, We need to replace the brake pads. By we, we both knew he meant me. He made it clear that he was trusting me to do this, laid out all the tools I would need, and gave me a quick, easy-to-understand summary of how brakes work and how to replace brake pads. Did I mention I was eleven?

At first I was as excited as any kid would be. Every boy wants the chance to prove himself, to be like his dad. Then it hit me just how important a brake job really is. Cars can run well or they can run badly, but no matter how they run, they absolutely have to be able to stop.

I got nervous that I would screw up. No matter what my dad had said, brakes still seemed pretty complicated. It didnt even matter that he was going to inspect everything after I was done, or that he wasnt going to punish me no matter how it came out. Even though I knew all that, I felt entirely overwhelmed.

I dont think I can do it, I told him, sitting there with a screwdriver in my hand.

I bet if I gave you a million dollars to do it, youd find a way.

Everybody has their aha moment. That was mine. A light clicked on. Put it that way, and a brake job starts to look pretty easy. So I went to work. I was careful and I concentrated on everything I did. I put everything I had into that brake job. Do it right, after all, and I would walk away with a million dollars. So I figured out how to take everything apart, how to put on the new brake pads, and how to reassemble everything just the way it was before I started. I finished up and went and found my father. He looked over everything, making these little noises in the back of his throat that meant he was really thinking about things. Finally, he gave me a big smile and a thumbs-up.

I can do a rock-solid brake job to this day, but the most valuable thing I took away from that experience is what I call The Million Dollar Perspective. All of us face big challenges at one time or another. The way around those challenges is to trust yourself, use all the information you can lay your hands on, and never let yourself get defeatedyou always have to remember that theres an answer somewhere. The idea that I can look at everything with the Million Dollar Perspective has helped me throughout my life. I used it in college, to get good grades in subjects that were hard for me. I used it to master carpentry. And I used it to rock my first home-design project.

Home design, decorating, and remodeling can be tricky. There are many ways to go about improving your interior space, but only one will lead to just the look youre after and a room that says exactly what you want it to say about your style. This much is true: You are totally capable of designing the home of your dreams. You dont need a design degree, an open-ended budget, or your own professional. You just need a basic philosophy and the proper inspiration for approaching the challenge, backed up by a rock-solid method you can easily follow. My philosophy and inspiration come from the Million Dollar Perspective. My method is what I call Carters Way. Its a process that has worked for me in dozens of different rooms and homes. Now I want it to work for you.

Stunning marble tiles sharp-looking cabinets plenty of accessible work - photo 3

Stunning marble tiles, sharp-looking cabinets, plenty of accessible work surfaces, and energy-efficient appliances positioned perfectly for efficient workflow you can design a kitchen this terrific using Carters Way and the Million Dollar Perspective.

Natural materials such as the real wood leather tables the sisal rug and - photo 4

Natural materials, such as the real wood, leather tables, the sisal rug, and natural fiber upholstery shown here, form the core of an environmentally friendlyand really stylishroom.

Im writing this book because of all the people who come up to me at events, or write me, saying things like, I wish I could make my kitchen look like the one on your last show, or, If only I could have you work on my living room! You dont need me in person. You dont need anybody else. You need my perspective and my method.

The book you hold in your hands isnt like any other home-design book. Its not about showing you all the cool rooms Ive worked on in my career. Its not about listing every possible decorating and design option. You can find more options than you can count at any big home center, paint outlet, hardware store, or furniture showroom. Thats not this book. This book is all about empowering you and giving you a method that will be the ultimate design tool, like a Swiss army knife for home decorating and remodeling.

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