Designing rooms and personal spaces is what Laurie Smith does for a living. As one of the very first designers on TLC’s hit television series Trading Spaces Laurie has crafted and perfected her design techniques into an innovative and unique art. Now, in her very first design book, Discovering Home: Find Your Personal Style Smith shares her original and classic approach to home design and renovation.

In Discovering Home, Laurie takes readers through the “ultimate journey” of her newly renovated mid-century home with all original photography documenting the entire room-by-room process. From this, Laurie teaches homeowners to approach design a bit differently than they might have previously thought. Rather than looking at color and fabrics immediately when trying to envision a room, she encourages homeowners to look at the architectural “bones” of a home and find inspirational pieces for design concepts.