Space Matters: Use the Wisdom of Vastu to Create a Healthy Home. 11 Top Designers Show You How

This book is excellent! I'm not done it yet, though. It was a great price; it has way more value than what I paid for it(though the price certainly helped). I was curious to see the similarities and differences between Vastu and Feng Shui. I wasn't disappointed!The pages are very thick and durable as well. Not easily torn by careless browsing. Though I plan to sell this book at a local store when I'm done with it, as I usually do, this would make a great "coffee table book".

I have read and re-read this book over and over! Sometimes I just look at the pictures. There is so much good info in here to change your thinking about how space matters in your personal world and what you can do with it. Personal growth and understanding Vastu. Applying that directly into your personal space..work or home, can really make a difference.

A straight forward guide to understanding how to organize the space around you in ways that improve the energy and "healthiness" of it. Lovely pictures and thought provoking ideas.If this is an area you are exploring, or if you have already explored feng shui, you should get this book.

Good introduction for basics of vastu but left me wanting more information than was provided. Pictures are beautiful!

I love this book! It has many beautiful pictures and I received it in great condition. I am very satisfied with my order.

Space Matters...and so does time. This is a deeply personal exploration of living space and it requires you to slow down and pay attention. If you can't do that in general and with this book in particular, then you'll never succeed in reshaping "your place," the euphemism Cox says people employ when they don't feel too affectionate toward their domicile, in whatever form it takes. She demonstrates how to reduce the clutter and not just simplify but balance, according to vastu principles which she thoroughly understands and you will grasp, too, by the end.The beautiful photography well represents the points made, particularly with respect to the play of light, the use of scale and the importance of arrangement. She visits each room in the house and stresses their typical pitfalls and how to enhance their function and purpose. For example, all the extraneous things so often found in the kitchen may explain why so many of us eat standing up these days. Hmmmm.....so that's it. I'm guilty as charged.What moved me in many places was the understated but powerful use of color as a background. I'm sure I'll always have trouble picking paint, but at least I can better appreciate how a soft pumpkin color can pull many elements together.I highly recommend this book for those who need a soft hand to guide them (and who doesn't??). It's instructive, but it's also contemplative. All budgets could accommodate the design principles laid forth, too, because it's not about grand stuff, but carefully and sparingly chosen accents.

A "genius" Italian architect featured in this book is teaching our Design Class. So he made us, his students, buy this worthless book under the gun of bad grades. It is completely of no value for design students or anybody else!You look through it once, it is like a magazine.Plus, Mrs. Cox, you have to carefully select whom you feature in your book - somebody whom everybody in the industry hates? Feature honest and moral architects instead, there are plenty of good ones around.As for the value of this book - Readers, if you don't want to waste your money, better buy something else.I'm going to donate mine to the library. Waste of money!

I bought this book based on the reviews, as I was looking for a book that incorporated the theory of vastu. While it does have beautiful photography, I was very disappointed, as this is a book mostly about interior design, with very, very little discussion of vastu principles and theory. It is quite conclusive; for example, the author will point out that a room that is pictured in the book is vastu compliant, but she fails to discuss why. Also, many of the photos are of rooms that are rather austere and depressing. Earthy, yes, but living around so much gray and brown is not very uplifting to my spirit. I read this book from cover to cover and found it very superficial. For vastu theory and beautiful photos, check out Sherry Silverman's excellent book: Vastu: Transcendental Design in Harmony With Nature, which I have also read cover-to-cover, and from which I learned much more than I did in Cox's book.

The gorgeous photos are inspiring.