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Call It Home: The Details That Matter Hardcover – October 17, 2023

by Amber Lewis (Author), Shade Degges (Photographer), Cat Chen (Contributor)
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Through gorgeous photography and heartfelt essays, the interior designer and author of Made for Living reveals her detail-oriented approach to renovating, decorating, and building a beautiful home.

The details can make a room. The bullnose edge of a marble countertop. The wood grain and color of the flooring. The particular pleat of the drape. Amber Lewis, the esteemed designer known for her signature California-inspired style, obsesses over the tiniest of features to create her eclectic, laid-back look. In Call It Home, she shares her secrets to choosing and applying fabric, paint, finishes, tile, flooring, and more for a beautifully designed home, shortcutting the often-overwhelming decision-making process. 

Amberwalks you through eight new homes she designed—including her own—and the thought processes behind every major choice. Whether you're decorating one room, renovating your entire house, or planning new construction, she shares how to approach a project from start to finish, guiding you on how to find the right team so you can get the perfect results. Then she takes you through mountain retreats and surfside homes, dreamy escapes she’s created by pulling inspiration from the surrounding property for a look that’s unique to each home. Through personal essays, you’ll learn how she set about the project, what challenges her team faced, and the materials she used to achieve the finished result.

With more than 200 gorgeous images of livings rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, entryways, bedrooms, and baths, you'll have photographs of Amber’s details on hand when you're ready to create your own collection of stunning spaces—and call it home.
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About the Author

Author of Made for Living and interior designer Amber Lewis is the principal and founder of Amber Interiors, a full-service firm that provides designs for everything from large-scale residences to extensive commercial projects. Amber and her team collaborate with architects and contractors to bring to life the distinct visions seen in her work, on her blog, and in her retail shop.

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I have always placed great value on the importance of our living spaces to our quality of life. Of course, we all know the age-old saying “Home is where the heart is,” but home is also where I find inspiration, emotional security, and all-around peace. Many of us have been fortunate enough to also learn that a home can also be where we work and even where we take our “staycations.” While it might start out as a structure with four walls and a roof, a home can be transformed into a place that also brings comfort.

Spending the last decade as an interior designer has truly been a joy. With my company, Amber Interiors, I found my niche, and I now have not only a career doing what I love most, but also a platform on which to share my life’s work with others. I do not take this responsibility lightly, and with each new project I embark upon, I strive to create better spaces—for my clients, for myself, and for anyone following along on social media.

Still, as any designer knows, when it comes to designing a unique space—one that isn’t merely a lather-rinse-repeat of the same room over and over—the struggle is real. Thanks to the Internet, we are all exposed, time and again, to images of interiors that lack that special, timeless quality that makes a space unique. Oversaturation of any one trend can make it difficult to define and hone your own style. After all, it can be hard to differentiate what everyone else is doing from what genuinely resonates with you.

For years, I have been homing in on my personal aesthetic and have tried to push myself creatively. But even I—a professional designer who should know better—have fallen prey to a design fad or two, only to ask myself a few years down the road, What was I thinking? So, in order to pull together all the elements of a space I am designing without getting caught up in passing fancies, I have learned to ask myself a few key questions:

• Will I like this design element a decade from now?

• Will this design look like it was done in [insert year] or at any point over the last fifty years?

• Is this design a true reflection of my personal aesthetic?

• Does this design feel one-of-a-kind, or like something I have seen done time and time again?

When designing a home, you find yourself asking a lot of questions like these and struggling to come up with the answers. In writing this second book, I have aimed to create a framework for simplifying this complicated process.

I want to help you find your personal style!

While I’ve been a professional interior designer for more than fifteen years, I’ve been at this design thing in one form or another for as long as I can remember. (Picking paint colors before the age of ten totally counts, right?) As with my design aesthetic and personal taste, things were quite different when I started Amber Interiors in 2011. Back then, the furniture and home spaces were dedicated mainly to the likes of national retailers, and my current design and entrepreneurial heroes were only starting to pave the way for an evolution in interior design, at least in the digital world. I started dabbling in DIY, made pillows, restored furniture—I documented everything and shared my work with whoever cared to read about it on the internet.

My approach to it all was quite simple: to be the most genuine version of myself by doing what I loved most, which was to create and design. I was starting from scratch in what was, for me, uncharted territory, and I had nothing to lose. I thought, What could go wrong? Well—I learned—a lot! It turns out that, when building a home, nothing is guaranteed, but you can hang your hat on good old Murphy’s Law.

Still, you’ve gotta roll with the punches. As a budding designer and a hardheaded, fiercely determined person to the core, I had some lofty goals I was hell-bent on achieving. Did this happen within the timeline I hoped for? Absolutely not. Frankly, I’m still working on a few of them, and on some days, I just want to give up. It has taken years of trial and error—building a strong, dependable team and taking a few risky chances on unknowns—to get to where I am today. Above all, it was important for me to stay true to what I believed in—so, I opted out of taking on investors. I started making moves toward immediate financial independence so that I could retain control of how my business operated, both logistically and creatively. It wasn’t easy to build a business this way, but looking back on it now, I wouldn’t change a thing.

I often think about my design career as a journey, one that started with a deep love of nature and the outdoors inspired by the places I visited as a child and by the California beach where I grew up. Decorating window displays in retail shops in my early twenties led me to discover myself and to focus my energies on what is now known as Amber Interiors. Then I came to the most recent and jarring mile-stone in my journey. In 2020, right before I turned forty, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (more commonly known as MS). The diagnosis rocked my world, of course, but it also, ultimately, gave me a level of strength and perseverance I didn’t know I possessed.

When I look back on that journey now, I see it as necessary to constructing the foundation for everything I currently have in my life. My experiences, good and bad, have made me who I am today. I have had to make countless tough decisions and sacrifices to get to where I am now, to experience many things, both positive and negative, until I learned to trust my instincts. This doesn’t mean I get it right every time. In fact, I can promise you I don’t always. My point is that you grow with your journey, and I have so much to share about mine.

If you’ve read my first book, Made for Living, you may see some noticeable differences between this book and that one. Chalk it up to evolution: I have learned so much about myself and about interior design over the past couple of years. In that earlier book, I focus on my stylistic preferences when designing a space. In these pages, I’m going to take you through the details, and specifics involved, when designing several homes.

So, let’s get personal, let’s talk business, and, of course, let’s share design.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarkson Potter (October 17, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593235525
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593235522
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.25 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.3 x 1.15 x 10.3 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Amber Lewis is a seasoned interior designer and multi-hyphenate in the interiors and décor space. Grounded in a signature West Coast aesthetic that she describes as “laid back” and “understated cool,” Amber is first and foremost the founder of a full-service design firm, Amber Interiors, touting clients across the country.

Amber is also founder of Shoppe Amber Interiors, the brick-and-mortar retail shop that brings the effortless and timeless feeling of her interiors to a shoppable setting. Amber’s eclectic design approach and affinity for found objects is now available to everyone at her four California locations in Calabasas, Pacific Palisades, Newport Beach, Marin, as well as an online Shoppe.

In recent years, she has expanded her business into a successful, multi-year furniture and décor collaboration with Anthropologie, multi-year rug and textiles collaboration with Loloi, multi-year lighting line with Visual Comfort, and most recently published a best-selling interior design book, Made for Living.

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Customers find the book provides tons of decorating and staging inspiration, with inspiring photos and solid advice throughout. Moreover, the content offers a wide range of ideas, and customers consider it well worth the price. However, the readableness receives mixed feedback, with several customers noting that the white lettering on beige/grey pages makes it virtually impossible to read.

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78 customers mention "Decor"72 positive6 negative

Customers appreciate the book's decor, finding it visually appealing with lovely colors and tons of decorating and staging inspiration. One customer notes that the design work is relaxed.

"I purchased this book initially just as decor for my coffee table. I opened it the other day just to browse and found myself glued to the content...." Read more

"Beautiful..I flip through new pages for my coffee table daily ." Read more

"Beautiful solid book, great coffee table decor piece! The photos are amazing and perfect for my style of decorating." Read more

"Perfect size for decorating! Great brown color and size for an end table!" Read more

41 customers mention "Photos quality"41 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the photos in the book, describing them as lovely and inspiring, with one customer noting that they are particularly big.

"...The writing draws you in and the beautiful pictures of the spaces keeps you there!" Read more

"Beautiful solid book, great coffee table decor piece! The photos are amazing and perfect for my style of decorating." Read more

"Amber Lewis is perfect and so is this book. I love her style and talent. This book is a wonderful representation of her work." Read more

"...Great book with good advice and beautiful pictures. A coffee table staple" Read more

11 customers mention "Information quality"11 positive0 negative

Customers find the book informative and practical, with one customer highlighting how it takes homes from good to great with its details.

"Love the book. It’s got a lot of really good information and it looks nice on the coffee table or shelf...." Read more

"I don't know why I waited so long to order this one. Great book with good advice and beautiful pictures. A coffee table staple" Read more

"Loved the information and photos." Read more

"While this book is stunning, it does actually offer solid advice and isn't "skimpy" on the details like other similar interior design books...." Read more

11 customers mention "Value for money"8 positive3 negative

Customers find the book well worth its price.

"Nice book. Have on my coffee table. Nice price too!" Read more

"Very nice thick and great for the price just buy it." Read more

"...is merely a tour of the luxury houses she has designed, with little practical benefit if you don't have tens of millions of dollars to spend...." Read more

"Lovely book with great photos and design. Excellent buy for the $." Read more

7 customers mention "Ideas"7 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the wide range of ideas in the book, with one customer noting how it beautifully blends creativity with functionality.

"...I do not decorate my home in beige but there are still great takeaway ideas and tons of decorating and staging inspiration even if you aren't a beige..." Read more

"Love this book, great hardcover. The book beautifully blends creativity with functionality, offering a wide range of ideas for incorporating..." Read more

"Love the look of the cover and the great ideas, tips on how to style Interior of home are very helpful. Great book for new home owners" Read more

"...Very nice elegant and versatil. Buy it you won’t be disappointed." Read more

7 customers mention "Readableness"0 positive7 negative

Customers find the book difficult to read, with white lettering on beige/grey pages making it virtually impossible to read.

"...White lettering on a beige/grey page. Makes it very difficult to read." Read more

"The book photography is gorgeous. That said, many pages are unreadable because of the poor choice of print color, which is a downer...." Read more

"...Pretty much illegible for me." Read more

"...section features white writing on a pale gray page, making it completely unreadable! Even with a flashlight it is virtually impossible to read...." Read more

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    5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautifully Done Book
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    I purchased this book initially just as decor for my coffee table. I opened it the other day just to browse and found myself glued to the content. The writing draws you in and the beautiful pictures of the spaces keeps you there!
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    Beautiful..I flip through new pages for my coffee table daily .
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  • Michelle C.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book and the photos inside!
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    Beautiful solid book, great coffee table decor piece! The photos are amazing and perfect for my style of decorating.
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    Love this book and the photos inside!

    Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2025
    Beautiful solid book, great coffee table decor piece! The photos are amazing and perfect for my style of decorating.
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    Perfect size for decorating! Great brown color and size for an end table!
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  • Regina
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfection strikes again!
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    Amber Lewis is perfect and so is this book. I love her style and talent. This book is a wonderful representation of her work.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Bent spine
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    Love the book. It’s got a lot of really good information and it looks nice on the coffee table or shelf. The only con was that the spine of the book was bent a little and that bugs me. Better shipping could have avoided this issue.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars great coffee table book!!!
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    i’m not gonna lie, i haven’t actually read the book, but this is fantastic for my entryway table or coffee table. i love the color and modern font, and i love that it doesn’t look like all my other coffee table books lol. highly recommend!
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    great coffee table book!!!

    Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2025
    i’m not gonna lie, i haven’t actually read the book, but this is fantastic for my entryway table or coffee table. i love the color and modern font, and i love that it doesn’t look like all my other coffee table books lol. highly recommend!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Coffee table staple
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    I don't know why I waited so long to order this one. Great book with good advice and beautiful pictures. A coffee table staple
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  • Yvonne
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in Singapore on April 22, 2024
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    Love the book. Content was written in a way that expressed Amber’s view and nothing too technical. Good for me.
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  • Shellby
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of affordable ideas in this book
    Reviewed in Australia on November 27, 2023
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    Lovely book, full of beautifully designed rooms and lots of affordable ideas.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Good inspiration, but purchased as decor item
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    Es un libro muy hermoso y de excelente calidad. Me encantó
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