Color for Your Home
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (860 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0376012641 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Go Ahead -- Splash Some Color Into Your Home! This book is fantastic, it truly helps the struggling home decorator such as us to go for it with color.It achieves this through the color wheel. It cautions when first getting into this, that it is not going to take one on an academic lecture, but rather delivers in keeping the concept usable and manageable.For the first time, this book was able to help us undertand texture, tone, hue, value, tempareture, intensity, complimentary colors, etc.All with the color wheel concept, which it gives you details using that portion of the color wheel which appeals to you, then shows one how to develop a color palette using co. "Not the best book of its kind" according to Amy Henley. I was not impressed with this book. The pictures were so-so and showed a narrow range of styles. I thought the color choices were boring and outdated. There are so many other books that do a better job of instructing you on how to work with color, and I list a few of them below.Recommendation: Skip this book.Better sources (if you really want to use color):Color Your Home Beautiful: Ideas and SolutionsThis book gives you a broader range of color palettes than Color for Your Home and a broader range of styles (although if you like hard core modern, you might want to skip this book because it is just about the only s. Your home will look like YOU ARE A DESIGNER! A Customer I have to admit, that I am one of those people who adore decorating and design magazines and books. However, so often where I will enjoy and learn from some articles in the magazine, I am often I am very, very disappointed in the content of the decorating and design books. It seems that so many books say the same things over and over again.Especially about color by now, the vast majority of us UNDERSTAND THE COLOR WHEEL and we are looking for more! This book actually is full of "now that makes sense" type of content! I now can confidentely put together a room with different patterns and colors and IT NOT ONLY W
Original.. Designed to encourage readers to experiment with color selection, this useful guide to home decorating comes with thirteen color wheels and a complete color encyclopedia