The White Company is releasing its first home decorating book in celebration of the brand's 25th anniversary. Going on sale in September, For the Love of White: The White & Neutral Home, aims to offer the definitive guide to creating a home with white and neutral tones, whether you live in a compact city apartment, a rambling country cottage or an elegant town house. 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? Chrissie grew up in Kent and left school at 16 to study couture design in London. Her working life began aged 18 working for magazines including Harpers & Queen, Brides, GQ and Vogue. She also held a PR role at Clarins.

Illustrated with specially commissioned photography by leading interiors photographer, Chris Everard and organized into three sections - Country, Town and Coast - the book provides both the advice and the inspiration needed to transform your home.Illustrated with specially commissioned photography by leading interiors photographer, Chris Everard and organized into three sections—Country, Town and Coastal—the book provides both the advice and the inspiration needed to transform your home.

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. In 2014 Chrissie founded The White Heart Foundation, helping vulnerable young men, women and children. Chrissie is also the Founding Patron for Women Supporting Women for The Prince's Trust and is an ambassador for Everywoman. Today The White Company has evolved enormously and become a complete lifestyle brand, offering a wide range of essential home accessories that really make a house a home. From beautiful linens, towels and china to a wider range of scented bath and home treats and a children's range, The Little White Company, it has also introduced an exciting range of clothing, loungewear and nightwear as well as furniture, lighting and rugs.Create calming, peaceful spaces in your home with white and neutral tones with the first home decorating book from The White Company, published as this much-loved brand celebrate their 25th anniversary. 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.