Product Description

Bring the world of color into your home. Decorating with Color, the latest from the editors of Martha Stewart Living , features eleven color palettes inspired by nature and everyday objects. Within each palette, whether honeycomb, sea glass, lustreware, or melon, you will discover how to create comfortable, inviting rooms that shelter and soothe.

Color can be intimidating. Many of us rely on neutrals, unsure of how to combine stronger colors without having them clash. Yet for Martha Stewart, a house is not a home until it is filled with color. In Decorating with Color, Martha and the editors of Martha Stewart Living share the lessons they have learned over years of decorating hundreds of spaces. In some cases, changing the look of a room may be as simple as painting the inside of a kitchen cabinet blue or displaying a collection of sunny yellow pitchers atop a dark chest of drawers. Or you might choose a lively green for the bedroom walls but keep the fabrics and furniture understated. The eleven palettes in this book will help you recognize the colors and textures that add up to beautiful, cohesive rooms. In each chapter, you will find examples of paint chips, fabric swatches, and simple, stylish projects to inspire you whenever you decorate.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #686262 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-05
• Released on: 2002-03-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

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Bring the world of color into your home. Decorating with Color, the latest from the editors of Martha Stewart Living , features eleven color palettes inspired by nature and everyday objects. Within each palette, whether honeycomb, sea glass, lustreware, or melon, you will discover how to create comfortable, inviting rooms that shelter and soothe.

Color can be intimidating. Many of us rely on neutrals, unsure of how to combine stronger colors without having them clash. Yet for Martha Stewart, a house is not a home until it is filled with color. In Decorating with Color, Martha and the editors of Martha Stewart Living share the lessons they have learned over years of decorating hundreds of spaces. In some cases, changing the look of a room may be as simple as painting the inside of a kitchen cabinet blue or displaying a collection of sunny yellow pitchers atop a dark chest of drawers. Or you might choose a lively green for the bedroom walls but keep the fabrics and furniture understated. The eleven palettes in this book will help you recognize the colors and textures that add up to beautiful, cohesive rooms. In each chapter, you will find examples of paint chips, fabric swatches, and simple, stylish projects to inspire you whenever you decorate.

Customer Reviews

Disappointing
I was disappointed with this book. I assumed that Martha had grown along with the trends, so I was sorry to see that the colors in the book are the same ones that have been in her magazine for, like, a decade. There isn't very much useful information in this, and I kind of resent the fact that she is dictating a very limited (and limitING) number of color palettes from which I am supposed to choose. Choice is everywhere in the design world, and the trend is NO trend, so Martha's approach seems very old-fashioned and dictatorial. Even that wouldn't be quite so bad if she were using more current colors than her old stand-bys.

Loved It!
My husband and I are at the tail end of redecorating our house and this book came out just in time to help me plan the color scheme for our sunroom (I love the celadon color scheme). I only wish I'd had this book before decorating my other rooms. (I keep looking at my white ceilings now and wishing I'd painted them a color!) Anyone who loves the sophisticated understated monotone color schemes that are one of Martha's trademarks will find this "best of" book a useful addition to their decorating collection.

More of the same
If you're into decorating, then yes, this is a book to have, along with some of the other "home keeping" books. However, many of the ideas have been in other books as well. MSLO recycles a lot of ideas, so if you have, say, "Good Things," or "Decorating Details," you'll see one or two things again. However, there are many projects and ideas that have not been republished, so it's good to have more ideas in your collection. I wasn't AS impressed as I was with the other two or three on the subject.