Nadia Mayer

A home is not just a static collection of walls and square metres, a “treasure trove” in which to invest, the neutral backdrop to our lives. A home is (or should be) the happy backdrop to every day: the place from which to leave and to which to return, in which to live relationships and cultivate affections, in which to feel at ease and create your own personal space. Nadia Mayer, the elegant and refined presenter of Casa a prima vista, a long-time estate agent but also a wife and mother of five children, brings to these pages the principle on which her entire career is based: the homes we live in, regardless of their objective conditions, must make those who live in them feel good. So here are some tips on how to beautify rooms on a budget, optimise space with creative ideas, and learn to see rooms in all their potential. Nadia tells us how our needs change over time and how, as a result, we can also change our homes, making them more and more like who we are and what we want. My ideal home, far from being a simple manual that teaches in a sterile way how to look for a home and spend your budget wisely, is a hymn to bien habiter, a collection of valuable tips with which the author conveys her irrepressible passion for her craft… and for every possible Nadia solution!