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Choosing Colors: An Expert Choice of the Best Colors to Use in Your Home

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Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill

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Any hardware store has more than enough paint chips to utterly confuse both homeowners and designers. Choosing Colors makes choosing just the right colors simple and rewarding. Internationally acclaimed designer Kevin McCloud has created an invaluable sourcebook packed with his personal tips and ideas on using more than 1,000 color chips presented in over 80 palettes. Each palette is a blueprint for a decorative plan, and the stunning full-color photos show those remarkable plans in action. For greatest color accuracy, the entire book is printed in six colors rather than the usual four. All swatches are identified with manufacturers’ numbers, and a complete list of suppliers rounds out this beautiful, indispensable reference book.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 645
EAN: 9780823099641
ISBN: 0823099644
Label: Watson-Guptill
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2007-10-02
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Release Date: 2007-10-02
Studio: Watson-Guptill


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• The Color Scheme Bible: Inspirational Palettes for Designing Home Interiors
• Color Schemes Made Easy (Better Homes & Gardens)
• Perfect Palettes for Painting Rooms: Plus Complete Decorating Guidelines
• The New Color Book: 45,000 Color Combinations for Your Home
• Color Your Home: More than 65,000 at-a-glance Room Combinations


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Look no further! -
This is by far the best color reference book I have ever used. I am a residential design professional and there is a palette for everyone on your list in this book. It even provides you with the American paint suppliers and paint names/reference numbers. The brief histories are a plus as well. It is simply the fastest way to help yourself with color palettes for all architectural styles from antiquity to the present.

Overly complex to use -
Save your money and buy the Color Bible. While this does have some historical references, unless you are doing a period home, do you care? I re-read the "how to use this book" 5 times. Couldn't find the numeric references to the palettes ("on palette 17.....etc"). Asked a few friends to help cause I was obviously missing something.

Not worth the work. Buy a color wheel and a painters fan deck instead.

Most useful book on color palettes I could find -
I bought this book while trying to plan a color palette for our new house. I've always liked houses with some color on the walls and different colors in different rooms. The challenge is finding colors that match the furnishings of each room and yet still coordinate with the other room colors.

The book provides broader and more versatile palettes than I was able to find in any other book. Better yet, it provided some scattered advice about what colors to use in particular situations (i.e. exterior vs. interior, main color vs. accent, cloudy climate vs. sunny climate). It also offered advice about how to put together color combinations that work. For example, I found it's advice about the surprising utility of purple colors in bringing a complex palette together was quite useful.

I would have liked to have found a book that offered more systematic advice or a palette that was precisely what I needed, but using the principles and some of the examples in this book I was able to put a household palette together that I am reasonably pleased with.

A top pick for any lending library strong in home and garden guides. -
Kevin McCloud is an authority on residential architecture and design, and his personal choice of the best colors to use in every type of home makes choosing a snap in CHOOSING COLORS, which includes over 700 color swatches and tips for home decor ranging from historical to modern. From early period colors to modern earth tones and mixes, there are plenty of outstanding examples perfect for selecting the right color shade and combination, making this a top pick for any lending library strong in home and garden guides.

Great help for anyone choosing paint colors -
This was exactly the book I was hoping it would be. It truly helps you choose colors from the popular brands of paint available. I was most interested in colors for a room with only a northern exposure. Every color I tried seemed to turn green on the walls. This book was extremely helpful in this regard. The only reason I gave it only 4 stars instead of 5 is the same reason others have commented on. The paint colors used in palette 28 and 29 were omitted from the reference guide in the rear of the book. It covers blue which is most people's favorite color so the omission is significant. Fortunately, for me, blue is my least favorite color.

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