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The Color Book: 11,264 Color Combinations for Your Home

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This was great for a 5 year old playing house but cannot seriously be used for any type of color choosing. If the pages were able to be removed and switched around it might be slightly helpful for comparison but I'd rather spend the money on a fan deck at the paint store or buy a couple quarts of paint and try them on my wall.

This book can save you hours of frustration, quarts of "test" paint and about 500 trips to the hardware store for paint chips. It's a simple but ingenious solution to testing color schemes: pages are cut into thirds - floor, mid-room and ceiling - so you can flip back and forth to see how a light wood or rose-tinted floor might look next to oxford blue or butter yellow walls. The book gives you a chance to play with living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen schemes, with a total of 11,264 color combinations. Flipping back and forth can be addictive; the resulting combinations surprising. More than half of all wall paint purchases are in white or off-white, simply because people can't make up their minds. Let this book help you safely make colorful decisions to rise above the majority.

This was fun to play with, but the "rooms" shown are obviously unreal, which reduces the appeal of each. And there isn't any help in figuring out how to use the color variations. I sat here and flipped back and forth, entertained for awhile before I realized that this wasn't really going to help me figure out colors for my house. There's nothing about working with pattern, either. Clever but not worth the money.

This book is attractive and cleverly packaged but not very helpful in terms of choosing color schemes for the home. I enjoyed flipping through the pages, however, the "rooms" are inexpensive sets that do not resemble actual rooms (especially the kitchen section) and the colors combinations are unconventional and unlikely choices. Also, the book refers to only one paint brand, and it is not one of the finer brands on the market. I would not recommend this book as a paint guide.

I think this book is great for decorating novices like myself. As a color-deprived, white-walled apartment dweller on the verge of buying a condo, I'm glad to have a tool to help myself decide what I love and what I hate. The only possible drawback I've noticed about the color palate is that it has a decidedly "Caribbean" flavor--neutrals combined with tangerines, aquas, fuscias, parrot greens, etc. Maybe that's a good thing--I would have never looked at cherry as a real wall color if I hadn't seen it in this book. Opens your creativity! Good for scaredy-cats! Cheap way to avoid an expensive mistake! Fun!

The Color Book claims to have 11,264 color combinations for your home. I don't know how the publisher did the math, but you'll never squeeze more than a couple hundred combinations from this book. That may still sound like a lot, but it isn't. For each room, you get maybe 20 color combinations, and that's if you tear or cut out the pictures and assemble your own pictures from the snippets, which is what you'd have to do if you want to get any use out of this book. For a color, it gives at most three shades, which is far from adequate, since every brand of paint has at least 30 shades of any color, and using a different shade can give a totally different look.

The concept of this book is very cool, and the execution is good. A lot of people who might otherwise stick to off white should enjoy this book. However, the color changes were not accurate; I am a designer and work with color and with Photoshop- which I'm pretty sure is what they used to create the color changes. Some of the colors- particularly the shadows- just don't work that way in real life. It's just a little too artificial for me.

As others have said, this book has almost zero how-to content. It is delightful to the eyes, however, especially for Marguerita lovers and Jimmy Buffet fans. ("Don't worry, be happy.")

It presents a lot of color combinations for those tired of off-white and beige, but too timid to make a change without reassurance. I agree that the colors are in the Carribean style, so the colors would be good for summer decorating or a decidely feminine style.

With this book, I found it easier to show my husband color combinations I liked and get his response very quickly (he even surprized me!).

A good book if you can accept its limitations. It has wonderful color combinations, but they are limited to foor rooms: living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens. It is spiral bound and each of three sections can be adjusted separately: floors, wall paints, and ceiling paint colors. Unfortunatley, the pages are printed on both sides, so sometimes it is impossible to get the color combinations you want. The pictures of the rooms are limited: all the furniture is examptly the same (e.g. all gray bath tubs and all birch kitchen cabinets.) It might be stretching most people's imaginations to pair a pale yellow kitchen with a purple ceiling! But the colors are beautifully and truthfully reproduced and the color combinations in the Color Key are wonderful!

Lime-green or tangerine-colored walls are not my idea of beauty. Yes, there's a lot of color combinations that you can choose from, but you'll have to remove every single strip in order to see what most of them will look like together. Otherwise, you're limited to the color combinations that have already been put together for you. Will be returning this one.