Color Healing Home: Improve Your Well-Being and Your Home Using Color Therapy [Paperback]

Catherine Cumming (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2000

Transform your house into a haven of health and happiness by applying color theory to interior style.  Organized by mood, fascinating text and hundreds of color photographs present color schemes to calm, invigorate, assist meditation, or promote passion. Revitalize busy areas such as living rooms with lively reds and vibrant pinks—but avoid hot colors in contemplative or relaxing spaces, where gentler hues and pale glass panels are ideal. These stylish ideas are just what the doctor ordered.
 
 

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The holistic healing approach now popular in interior design here is applied to the use of color. Cumming begins by explaining how the energy produced by different colors affects ones moods and discusses how chakras, which are "power centres through which...white light from the sun is drawn into the body," are influenced by color. Rather than suggesting various color schemes, the majority of this book focuses on individual colors and how their use in a home can create different moods. Purchase where there is an interest in this holistic approach to interior design.
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About the Author

Catherine Cumming is an interior designer who specializes in the art of decorative painting. She has run her own successful business in the UK and abroad for the past 10 years. A regular contributor to various lifestyle magazines, Catherine has written four previous books: Decorative Floors, Makeover Kitchens and The Little Books of Color Healing Calm and Energy. She is a trained color therapist and is concerned with the healing qualities of color and its practical application in the home, extolling the virtues of decorative healing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: MITCH (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1840003650
• ISBN-13: 978-1840003659
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #257,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a fun book, March 29, 2001

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A. Hefner (Berkeley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Color Healing Home: Improve Your Well-Being and Your Home Using Color Therapy (Paperback)

This is one of my all-time favorite books ... and I have a HUGE collection of books on color and decorating. Whenever I look through these pages, I want to do my rooms in every color I see, loving each page more than the next. If you ask me which was my favorite color, I will say, "All of them!" But then, my passion for color is the reason I bought this book in the first place. As soon as I opened it, I had to have it.

The book is broken down according to the colors of the spectrum and the color therapy use of each color (i.e., there are sections for "energizing," "uplifting," "balancing," "refreshing," "calming," "meditative," "romantic," and "grounded"). Each individual color has two or three photos. But this book doesn't just separate the colors as simply as red, orange, yellow, etc. It elaborates by breaking each color down into numerous shades and tones of that color. For the violet part of the spectrum alone -- which is classified as "meditative" in terms of color therapy purposes -- there are pages for the shades "very violet," "deep purple," "mood indigo," "fresh lavender," "lilac time," and "purple haze." Each has several photos.

Throughout the book, there are pages (and photos) for such luscious colors as "sunflower," "aquamarine," "fruit pastels," "sugar candy" ... and there are natural/neutral colors represented as well.

Just looking through this book cheers me up and inspires me. It is intelligently written as well. I highly recommend Color Healing Home to anyone who would like to bring more color and joy into their life.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First Rate, April 26, 2002

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secrethalo (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color Healing Home: Improve Your Well-Being and Your Home Using Color Therapy (Paperback)

Tangerine Orange. Shocking Pink. Azure Blue. These are just a few of the colors offered in Color Healing Home. For those of you who love modern interior design but would like something other than beige and variations on white, then this is THE book for you. The book is divided by color and each color is showcased in beautiful modern rooms. Worth its weight in gold!! A+++++++++

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and Inspiring, September 1, 2001

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Kelley Hunt (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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I really like this book. The photos are beautiful. The author discusses what effect different colors have on your mood, i.e. paint your bedroom deep blue for restful sleep, red can cause exhaustion if it's not used sparingly, magenta-pink encourages introspection, etc. This book gives you lots of interesting ideas for adding color to your home, beyond just slapping paint on a wall.