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House Beautiful Color Workshop: Decorating Stylish Rooms

House Beautiful Color Workshop: Decorating Stylish Rooms
By Sarah Childs-Carlile

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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 essentials: 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.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #354588 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-11-28
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 160 pages

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  • ISBN13: 9781588165008
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From Booklist
Here is one place, other than Roget's Thesaurus, to find colorful adjectives for--what else?--every shade, tint, and hue of color. The ubiquitous color wheel aside, Childs-Carlile has assembled a collage of great House Beautiful magazine decorating photographs that demonstrate, better than words, the variety of options that color offers. Hesitant about combinations and harmonies? Put together a swatchboard (or two or three) of clippings and fabrics and photographs. Want to visualize the effect of one particular color spectrum? Review the six palettes, from neutrals and naturals to black and white, in different applications: accents, tints and shades, complementary, harmonizing, and one or two specific styles (for instance, the Federal style is associated with the green-to-turquoise range). Questions to ponder, plus a number of color solutions (how to widen narrow spaces or enlarge small rooms, for example), add to the book's value in the hands of the new home decorator. Barbara Jacobs
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Customer Reviews

Solid Winner5
I adore this book. The presentation/organization are great, nice pictures, good color design ideas. I read a lot of home design books--checking them out from my local library--and this is the first one I've been tempted to buy in almost 10 years. I had so many post-it notes flagging pages that I finally decided to order a copy. I recommend it highly.