Life on Mar's: Creating Casual Luxury (LIFE ON MAR'S A FOUR SEASON GARDEN)

"Casual Luxury is the cure for all design dilemmas. My six principles will work in your home regardless of its size, your personal style, and in any room. Casual Luxury has no boundaries." Emmy-nominated TV Host, Lifestyle Expert and best-selling author Mar Jennings is known for his signature style: Casual Luxury. He is a master at making it quickly understood and easy to apply with his trademark tips and techniques--"Casual Luxury made simple and sMARt." Mar's inventive and original blueprint for design infuses Mother Nature's colors and textures throughout the home and garden. For the first time he shares how Casual Luxury can be broken down into six design principles that anyone can apply. The book invites us all inside his Westport, Connecticut, home, as we explore with him his six design principles for creating a Casual Luxury home, room by room. This deluxe oversized coffee table book is filled with photographic essays highlighting his philosophy, plus practical applications and resourcefulness applicable for any home or space. Like an entire season of a design show, __LIFE ON MAR'S: Creating Casual Luxury__ will allow readers access to an encyclopedia of great ideas to apply in their home. This lifestyle expert does it with simplicity and style, balancing natural solutions with everyday elegance. "Having a beautiful home or apartment is an attainable goal," says Jennings. "If I can do it by mixing price points, my personal style, and local resources then you can, too!" His award-winning website marjennings.com is one of the best resources for home and garden tips. Mar has served as host and producer of an Emmy-nominated lifestyle show featuring "the best of the best" from along the eastern seaboard, and as an in-house host and lifestyle expert for FOX. He is also an expert for Celebrations.com, and a correspondent and home and garden expert for The Better Show, a nationally syndicated lifestyle TV program that centers around all things which aim to make your life "better." Mar has appeared on ABC, The Today Show, HGTV's White Room Challenge and Flea Market Flip and many more. Connecticut viewers will also know Mar as host of the Dream Room Makeover, Dream Wedding, Backyard Makeover, and many years of the annual Holiday Wishes series. As a top lifestyle expert, Mar has been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. His home and gardens have been profiled in many national publications, including Better Homes and Gardens, Decorating magazine, Home magazine, Quick & Simple magazine, Creative magazine, Small Gardens magazine, Westport Magazine and AtHome magazine. In addition, his gardens were chosen and featured in In the Garden, a pictorial essay by renowned photographer Stacy Bass. Mar Jennings is also the author of the best selling __LIFE ON MAR'S: A Four Season Garden__, a nationally acclaimed gardening book, sold world-wide. NOW ON AMAZON MAR'S CORE DESIGN PRINCIPLES COME TO LIFE IN HIS DESIGN SHOW, "LIFE ON MAR' THE HOME MAKEOVER SHOW." SEASON 1 AVAILABLE NOW. "Casual Luxury is the cure for all design dilemmas. My sixprinciples will work in yourhome regardless of its size, your personal style, and inany room. Casual Luxury hasno boundaries." Emmy-nominated TV Host, Lifestyle Expert and best-sellingauthor Mar Jennings is known for his signature Casual Luxury. He is amaster at making it quickly understood and easy to apply with his trademarktips and techniques--"Casual Luxury made simple and sMARt." Mar's inventive andoriginal blueprint for design infusesMother Nature's colors and textures throughout the home andgarden. For the first time he shares how Casual Luxury can bebroken down into six design principles that anyone can apply. The book invites usall inside his Westport, Connecticut, home, as we explore with him his six designprinciples for creating a Casual Luxury home, room by room. This deluxeoversized coffee table book is filled with photographic essays highlighting hisphilosophy, plus practical applications and resourcefulness applicable for anyhome or space. Like an entire season of a design show, LIFE ON MAR' Creating Casual Luxury will allow readers access to an encyclopedia of great ideas to apply in theirhome. This lifestyle expert does it with simplicity and style, balancingnatural solutions with everyday elegance. "Having a beautiful home orapartment is an attainable goal," says Jennings. "If I can do it bymixing price points, my personal style, and local resources then you can,too!" His award-winning website marjennings.com is one of the best resources for home and garden tips. Mar has served as host and producer of an Emmy-nominated lifestyleshow featuring "the best of the best" from along the eastern seaboard, and asan in-house host and lifestyle expert for FOX. He is also an expert forCelebrations.com, and a correspondent and home and garden expert for The BetterShow, a nationally syndicated lifestyle TV program that centers around allthings which aim to make your life "better." Mar has appeared on ABC, The TodayShow, HGTV's White Room Challenge and Flea Market Flip and many more.Connecticut viewers will also know Mar as host of the Dream Room Makeover, DreamWedding, Backyard Makeover, and many years of the annual Holiday Wishes series. As a top lifestyle expert, Mar has been featured in TheNew York Times and The Wall Street Journal. His home and gardens have beenprofiled in many national publications, including Better Homes and Gardens, Decorating magazine, Homemagazine, Quick & Simple magazine, Creative magazine, Small Gardensmagazine, Westport Magazine and AtHome magazine. In addition, his gardens were chosen andfeatured in In the Garden, a pictorial essay by renowned photographer StacyBass. Mar Jennings is also the author of the best selling LIFE ON MAR' A Four Season Garden , anationally acclaimed gardening book, sold world-wide. Mar Jennings is the author of the best selling Life On Mar's: A Four Season Garden, a nationally acclaimed gardening book, sold world-wide. Mar's new book will continue the series with Life On Mar's: Creating Casual Luxury. Emmy-nominated TV Host, Lifestyle Expert and best selling author Mar Jenningsis a master at creating home and garden design style that are desirable and achievable while instantly connecting with his audience. Mar's perspective on communicating to others is as much about form and function as it is about individual distinction. Based in Westport, Connecticut, Mar Jennings Cover; CONTENTS; 1 CREATING A CASUAL LUXURY HOME; 2 THE JOURNEY TO ROSEBROOK GARDENS; 3 FRIENDLY FOYER; 4 LIVING ROOM; 5 DINING ROOM; 6 KITCHEN; 7 CLOAKROOM; 8 OVERHAULING THE HALL; 9 MEDIA ROOM; 10 GUEST BEDROOM; 11 GUEST BATHROOM; 12 HOME OFFICE; 13 LAUNDRY ROOM; 14 MASTER BEDROOM; 15 MASTER BATHROOM; 16 THE OUTDOOR ROOMS; 17 DECODING YOUR DESIGN DILEMMAS; 18 DEVELOPING YOUR CASUAL LUXURY EYE FOR DETAIL, ROOM BY ROOM Mar Jennings is known for his casual luxury style of interior design. To illustrate just how this style could work in your home, he takes you on a tour of his own home, Rosebrook Gardens.