Better Homes and Gardens New Color Schemes Made Easy (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating) [Paperback]

Better Homes & Gardens (Author)

Book Description

Series: Better Homes & Gardens Decorating | Publication Date: February 5, 2008

This revised edition offers all-new material showcasing the latest trends in color palettes for the home. Chapters are organized by color and feature inspirational photos of real-life decorated rooms that illustrate different ways to combine the dominant color with other hues to achieve a variety of effects. Each room photo is accompanied by a palette of color swatches showing the relative amounts of each color to use to re-create the scheme. A special bonus section at the back of the book features all the color-swatch palettes, which a reader can tear out and take to the store to match up to paint chips.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0696234548
• ISBN-13: 978-0696234545
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 1st Painting Book..., February 13, 2008

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This review is from: Better Homes and Gardens New Color Schemes Made Easy (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating) (Paperback)

I have purchased my first house and will soon be tackling the job of painting it. I bought this book to get ideas on how to paint without using neutral colors in every room. This book has opened my eyes to the various color schemes and how to use them. It has a painting wheel inside. It tells you how to use colors and even has a question/answer page in the very back. It gives you a lot of pictures with furnishings and talks about how to tie the color on the walls with the furnishings and vice versa. I really liked how the author explained what the colors draw out, for example, "Yellow. Happiness and good cheer circle the room when you invite yellow inside. Bright citrus and pistachio yellows wake you up while the softer tones of vanilla, cream, and honey warm you like sunshine. Yellow-greens add brightness, golds glow with richness. Whatever your pick--buttercup, mustard, bamboo, or lemon sherbert-- yellow is sure to improve your outlook on life." I had some ideas of how I wanted to paint my house and this book helped me to figure out if I was headed in a good direction. By allowing me to pick a trait I wanted to draw out, for example my living room I would like to draw on conversation, while the bedroom relaxation; this book helped guide me into the correct colors to draw on those attributes. The author speaks in a basic level so the average person can comprehend what they are saying at a basic level. I would recommend this book for beginners, but would also recommend purchasing another book to go with it that may give more ideas.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Color for beginners, July 24, 2008

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This review is from: Better Homes and Gardens New Color Schemes Made Easy (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating) (Paperback)

I'm taking a color class in an interior design program. I have a textbook and various color-related books that I purchased by myself on Amazon. This is one of my favorite of all.

It does introduce some very basic yet important concepts about color in such an understandable language first. Then, it gets into the color application part, explaining how to combine colors to create a certain kind of ambience or impact, in a very easy-to-understand way again.

It is really well written, although it's not written by any certified designers. For beginners who like colors and would like to understand colors, this is the book for you. I highly recommend it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great basic paint color guide, April 8, 2008

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This review is from: Better Homes and Gardens New Color Schemes Made Easy (Better Homes & Gardens Decorating) (Paperback)

Clear, concise guide to choosing and co-ordinating colors in the home. Lots of helpful pointers, such as how to unify rooms in the home with the baseboard color. Often I flip through interior design books looking at the photos, but this one was interesting to read as well as look at.