Chic, natch, with 6 kids...

Downtown Chic - Robert and Courtney Novagratz

While I didn't learn much from the interior design in this book, it's worth a look-see just for the novelty of seeing how a family of 8 renovates/restores/re-sells fairly large pieces of real-estate in and around Manhattan. I found it to be a bit inspiring, but would love to know the back story. As in - how many nannies? how often are they there? how many fights? how many disasters? They have a few cute "disaster" stories and some uplifting things that I enjoyed as a working mom (as in how to cook a good family dinner: pick up the phone and call a delivery place). I know, not that original, but was presented well. The husband and wife are impossibly good looking and put together, so it's really just entertainment in the form of: I must know how they do this.

Of course, they withhold that crucial secret.