"Feel Free Home is as much a practical decorating manual as it is pages after pages of design eye candy. But it's never prescriptive or preachy; Leanne will give you her smartest tips and DIY directions, but she'll encourage you to listen to your own intuition and improvise along the way."
"Unlike most checkerboard floor tutorials, though, Ford's method actually embraces imperfection and is surprisingly simple. The trick? She never uses tape."
"Turns out both the pantry and bathroom at Ford's Pennsylvania home, as seen here, feature freeform, hand-painted checkerboard floors - and that's 100% by choice. "They are far from perfect - uneven lines, brush marks, little imperfections everywhere - but that's exactly why I love them," Ford told me in an email interview about Feel Free Home for"
Feel Free Home: The Art of Free Thinking Design combines abundant interior imagery with practical decorating instructions. The guidance avoids rigid rules and instead encourages intuition and improvisation during DIY projects. Checkerboard floors are presented as a way to balance trendy and timeless style without relying on expensive professional painting or tiling. A key method is painting checkerboard floors without tape, which simplifies the process and allows for more forgiving results. The book describes freeform, hand-painted checkerboard floors in a Pennsylvania home pantry and bathroom, emphasizing uneven lines, brush marks, and imperfections as intentional features that create character.
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