Interior designer Caitlin Flemming always gets asked how “the rules” of professional design can be applied to any home—how to pick a paint color and get better lighting, how to mix patterns, where to hang art and curtains, how to get the right scale and placement of furniture and rugs... While there’s no one way to design a space, there is a teachable art to creating a harmonious home. In The Essentials, Flemming and Goebel consolidate all the knowledge they’ve amassed from decades designing and styling homes, antiquing, and traveling.