House + Love = Home: Creating Warm, Intentional Spaces for a Beautiful Life

Designer Marrs and her general contractor/furniture builder husband, Dave, together cohost HGTV’s Fixer to Fabulous. They believe that each home they renovate should reflect the people who live in them. In this book, Jenny, with help from Dave, gives readers renovation and decorating ideas and tips for designing beautiful, useful porches, dining areas, kitchens, outdoor spaces, play spaces, home offices, and rooms for laundry, family, bath, and beds. Dave explains the steps for a few projects, such as adding moldings to rooms or building a drop zone. The book is filled with lovely color photos (some are out of focus) from previous jobs. Explanations about the renovation and design choices accompany them. Each chapter also includes Marrs’s personal observations about her family and their lives together; her stories span from her childhood to how they currently spend Christmas mornings and the births and adoptions of their children. Their values, woven throughout the book, are rooted in family, hard work, Christian faith, and community.