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House Beautiful Colors for Your Home: 300 Designer Favorites
What transforms a room from monotone to magical? Color! So, if youare accompanied by the exact brands of paint and their swatches, so you can examine the colors closely.An invaluable guide to color, this book will help you pick the right paints that will add beauty and style to your home.
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
September 2nd 2008
by Hearst
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I was excited about this book. I just bought my first home and it needs a lot of painting; I love color but don't trust my instincts for what will look good on a wall. The concept of the book is great, but I found it a little frustrating. Most of the colors are shown only in small squares, which gives a reader very little sense of what they will look like in rooms (the colors that are shown in rooms tend to look quite different from their chips, which leads me to believe this is an important ...more
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This is a pleasant little book full of 300+ paint swatches. Each swatch is accompanied by a (usually) insipid comment from a designer who has used it. Every other page shows a room decorated in a selected color (which it would be nice to have more of, because it introduces lighting conditions, furniture, trim, etc.). The book finishes with a room-by-room color index and a shade-by-shade index. A caveat is that color reproductions of paint and swatches are notoriously difficult to get right; ...more
You may be saying to yourself, Why would I read a book that's just a bunch of swatches? Or at least, that is what I said when I picked it up. But there are some good snippets of advice from designers that go along with the colours.
This is a good book for a couple to sit down with when planning the colour scheme of their house. You can read along, point, argue and agree over the hundreds of choices. It's also a good way to narrow down what you like (or hate).
This is a good book for a couple to sit down with when planning the colour scheme of their house. You can read along, point, argue and agree over the hundreds of choices. It's also a good way to narrow down what you like (or hate).
This is the book I've been waiting for my whole life! It's a compilation of color suggestions from designers about what colors worked for them, with explanations of how they look in a room. If you are looking to paint a room in your house, this will narrow down your choices to some tried and true shades and lessen your chances of making a big mistake. Now I want to repaint every room in my house!
1"x1" tiles of color flood the book to help you get a feel for color and what might work in your own home. Useful color index in the back of the book shows colors by shade. Lovely photos give you an idea of how the color can work in a designscape. Still trying to pick a color for my rooms. Wish there was more help about how to combine colors in rooms too.
A little book just full of great ideas and insights, lovely unusual ways of using color in ways I wouldn't have thought of for effects that are very satisfying. Plus, the designer quotes about the colors they select is delightful and just a pleasure to read. So much personality and style!
Great book for choosing colors by mood as opposed to palates. (Did I spell that right?) Extremely well organized. I liked that it was in a small book format but wish it was just a tad larger to make the photos more helpful.
I love learning about color. Based on a regular column in the magazine, this book pulls together paint color choices from designers, decorators and color experts, and features them with brief explanations of why they love the color and in what rooms and for what moods they think it works. It's helping me to better understand how color works.
the most inexpensive way to uplift/facelift any space. A $30 gallon of paint is your best friend. This books helps you look at what will work for you. Break out of that box and do something inventive.
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