Annie Sloan's Color Schemes: For Every Room

by Annie Sloan

Annie Sloan's Color Schemes is the essential guide to using a crucial decorating tool -- the color palette. Annie Sloan puts it all together room by room using stunning color schemes -- organized in low, medium, or high contrasts. This book introduces the main shade types to be found within each color and suggests dramatic and harmonious complementary colors. There are simple questions to help choose decorative palettes such as Hippie Chic, Riviera Touch, or Florentine Renaissance. Readers answer questions, then turn to the relevant group of color palettes, organized into three contrasting categories. There are hundreds of paint combinations representing a wide variety of tastes. Each theme features ten color swatches -- from Beach House to Classic Victorian -- easily recreated using Annie's paint recipes or the color masks built into the book flaps to isolate color at your local paint store.

160 pages, Paperback

First published May 16, 2002

About the author

Annie Sloan is a renowned decorative painter who works and teaches in the UK, the United States and various European countries.

Reviews

[Marie]

Good instructions for colour combinations and themes, if you're deep into the decorating woods. You may not use these literally, but inspiration for the motivated!

[Kate]

when I was getting ready to paint my apartment