希拉里•罗伯逊介绍了多种设计和展示“生活本质”——我们日复一日积累的零碎杂物，从图片和装饰品到帽子和自行车——的方式。

在**章“如何整理你的东西”中，希拉里确认并阐述了四种不同的整理方式——直觉、叙事、实用和策展——并展示了如何实现每一种方式。她还考虑了家中可以用来展示的各种地方——墙壁、壁炉架、窗台、斗柜、桌面——并就如何充分利用它们提供了建议。接着，在“真正的家所讲述的故事”中，希拉里分享一些内行知识，这些知识来自她打造五种不同风格——爱整洁、波西米亚、自然主义、Sculpture Vulture和Noble Salvage——室内设计的经验。有些人就像喜鹊；他们喜欢各种东西；寻找、收集和展示它们——而和他们相反的人，极简主义者致力于遏制或驯服它们。本书中的想法将吸引喜鹊、极简主义者以及介于两者之间的所有人。

Hilary Robertson reveals a multitude of ways to style and display the ‘stuff of life’ – the flotsam and jetsam of possessions, from pictures and ornaments to hats and bicycles, that we accumulate over the course of time.

In the first chapter, How to Arrange your Stuff, Hilary identifies and illustrates four different approaches to arrangements – intuitive, narrative, practical and curatorial – and shows how each one can be achieved. She also considers the variety of display locations available within the home – walls, mantelpieces, windowsills, chests of drawers, tabletops – and suggests how to make the most of them. Next, in Stories Told by Real Homes, Hilary shares insider knowledge drawn from the experience of creating interiors that fall into five different styles – Neatnik, Bohemian, Naturalist, Sculpture Vulture and Noble Salvage. Some people are magpies – they love stuff; finding, collecting, and displaying it – while their opposite, the minimalists, are on a mission to contain or tame it. The ideas in this book will appeal to magpies, minimalists and everyone in between.