House Beautiful Color Workshop: Decorating Stylish Rooms

House Beautiful Workshop

by Sarah Childs-Carlile

Color can really make a room come alive—generating the illusion of space, adding brightness, or even dividing it into separate areas. But how can a home decorator use color to best advantage? House Beautiful can help, with a workshop that presents all the choosing a color scheme, assembling a swatchboard, selecting a precise palette, and troubleshooting. Find out how to use the color wheel, test and develop ideas, create accents that bring a bit of zing to an interior, get great effects with pattern, and combine different shades successfully. Hundreds of photos display gorgeous spaces, and illustrate a variety of ways to work with primary colors, neutral tones, and black and white—along with textured paints and fabulous wallpapers.

Genres: Nonfiction, Interior Design

160 pages, Hardcover

First published November 28, 2006

Reviews

[G · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book really helpful when it comes to learning about color theory for your interior design. I think I learned a lot of basics and a lot of tips and tricks, including how to make a small room feel bigger (use white tones or vertical stripes).

I also learned about how to use the color wheel to figure out which colors to go together and what kind of effect you get. Overall I think this is a good book to flip through if you’re interested in painting but not sure what colors you want to try.

[Ann Kucera]

I used this book for inspiration when I was picking new paint colors for several rooms. I like that it's organized by color palettes. Then it showed different shades, tints, and hues of each color. Looked at how to use each color as an accent color, with complementary colors, or with harmonizing colors. After that it gave a couple examples of different styles using that color.