The Quiet Home
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The Quiet Home
The Quiet Home
A stylish guide to art of 'house hushing' and how to dial down the visual 'noise' in your home through decluttering, curating your possessions, shopping more mindfully and decorating with calming colours. From the interior stylist, writer, and designer with over 300k followers across social media as @thedesignchaser.
'House hushing' is a new interiors trend that's making (the right kind of) noise in these troubling times. Guardian
A beautiful, authoritative guide to the concept of house hushing, The Quiet Home incorporates design principles and strategies for dialling down the visual noise in your home, and creating serene interiors that promote calm and wellbeing. It takes a pared-down, thoughtful approach to home interiors and explains how to create spaces that whisper rather than shout.
The Quiet Home takes as its starting point the idea that everything in an interior has a voice and creates noise. By reducing this visual noise through thoughtful design principles and strategies, we can create a more serene living environment that in turn increases our wellbeing. A concept that delves deeper than aesthetic principles and how a home looks, quietening the spaces we live in can greatly affect how we feel.
The book provides insights for both creating a quiet home and adopting a more considered way of life, with chapters on Foundations, Mindful Minimalism, The Art of the Edit, and Room by Room. Each chapter is accompanied by beautiful imagery that takes the reader on a global journey of inspiring homes and design. A comprehensive guide to read cover to cover, the book's chapters can also be read in any order, providing clear reference points for a range of home projects, large or small.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781784729820
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 12 February 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Mitchell Beazley
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 173.0mm
Height: 242.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 208
About the Author
Michelle Halford is an interior stylist, writer, and designer based in Auckland, New Zealand, with over 300k followers across social media. She works on creative projects with local and international brands, including Dulux, Samsung, Pernod Ricard, BoConcept, Nespresso, and Hilton Hotels & Resorts NZ, and consults with clients on residential spaces. With a focus on holistic design, she has been creating quiet spaces for 12 years, and her work has been featured in many publications. Most recently, she has moved into product design with a homeware collaboration and the launch of her own furniture brand. You can find out more at thedesignchaser.com and on Instagram @thedesignchaser.
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