For the Love of White: The White and Neutral Home

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Having white linen upholstery looks okay at first, but at least one specifically mentions having throws available to protect the white linen, and there was no mention of pets or children. This is not a house to be lived in; it's a showpiece.

There's a love for low seating, supposedly comfortable. This forgets about people who may have trouble getting up from low chairs or sofas: the elderly, those with hip or knee problems, the uncoordinated, those who are actually disabled. Do they discourage those people from visiting? What happens when the people who live there fall into one of those categories? There's so much emphasis on natural light that they seem to forget that part of all days there isn't any outside light at all. Many rooms, at least what shows in the pictures, seem to have a limited amount of lighting for those dark times. Does everybody go to bed at sunset?Yes white goes with everything, but it isn't nearly as calming for me as they seem to think it should be. I find this much white to be cold, hard, boring, and all looking alike. It can also be blinding in bright sunlight. I got the book for Christmas as a “coffee table book” initially but I always like to read any book I own so I finished reading this today. The designs inside are stunning as expected and even though the houses are on another level to anything you’d expect in a standard home the design principles are pretty simple and classic. In some rooms here there's some neutral things like wood, but too often everything is white: walls, rugs, furniture, curtains and other fabrics. Even much of the artworks and decorative objects are white. Sometimes even the wood is deliberately toned down, grayed out if not painted white.