Tell the style police to buzz off. Designer Marco Pasanella urges you to learn how to trust your own judgment to achieve comfortable, attractive, and personal decor in ''Living in Style...

...sculptural interest. 5. Towels: A pile of fluffy towels makes a bathroom more inviting and is an inexpensive way to freshen up. -- From ''Living in Style Without Losing Your Mind'' by Marco Pasanella (Simon & Schuster, $30)

...advice from an offbeat but down-to-earth new design book, ''Living in Style Without Losing Your Mind'' by Marco Pasanella (Simon & Schuster, 199 pp., $30). This is not your typical coffee-table design book laden with photos of...