Janie Molster

Over more than two decades, Janie Molster has become known for creating sophisticated and vibrant spaces that are also finely attuned to their occupants. In her first monograph, House Dressing, Molster reveals the secrets behind her unique ability to fashion felicitous interiors and shares the principles that guide her work.

House Dressing combines Molster’s lively and thoughtful personal reflections on interiors she has created with enlightening texts on her design philosophy. Showcasing a broad range of projects, this book invites readers into country cottages, riverside manses, and Molster’s own urban farmhouse as she recounts the story and describes her thinking behind each one. Insightful essays among the projects provide a master class on how to work with color, pattern, and texture to make spaces that are in turn bold, calm, glamorous, and comfortable, and always personal.

Janie Molster has been a presence in the design world for twenty-five years. A longtime favorite of the Southeast corridor, Molster now has clients across the country. As a veteran design professional, she is a sought-after voice in the media, and she and her work have appeared in national and regional publications, including House Beautiful, Traditional Home, Veranda, Elle Décor, Architectural Digest, Virginia Living, Coastal Living, R Home, and Florida Design.

As a mother of five children, House Dressing is peppered with anecdotes of how Janie’s lively family has informed and influenced her designs, most especially in her own home featured in the beginning chapter. She and her husband John love to escape to their beloved beach home on the coastal Outer Banks of her native North Carolina.