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The Color Palette Primer: A Guide To Choosing Ideal Color Combinations for Your Home

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The Color Palette Primer is the single best book on color out there. First of all, it has the largest number of palettes (aside from the color book--but YOU have to make your own palette--here you are given the color palette picked by an expert). There are dozens of choices no matter what your taste. This is so different than most other color palette books that give you a couple dozen palettes, and where only one or two appeal to you at most. It also has an amazing introduction that explains the basic principles of color and how to apply them to your particular situation (what kind of light you get, when you use your room(s)). I bought this book because I have Eckstut's other book, Room Redux, which is phenomenal as well. You simply can't go wrong with this one.

I was very excited to get this book, but was very disappointed after reading/looking at it. I found a pallete I liked, so off to the paint store I went with book in hand. Turns out most of the colors in the book did not come close to matching the actual paint chip. I found the colors in the book to be browner than the paint chips at the store. Then the color codes for the paint did not match the codes in the store. I could not match most of the Ralph Lauren or Glidden paint color codes to what was on the paint chips. I had to ask the store to look up a color and give me the code so I could find the paint chip.

Maybe it was a printing error that caused almost every color in the book to be browner than the paint chip at the store, but I expected the colors to at least be close. They were note even close.

Bottom line, this book was not worth the money.

While the concept for this book is great, its execution falls short of fulfilling its potential. The book is divided according to the colors of the color wheel and lists palette combinations of three colors relative to such hues. My biggest disappointment stems from the fact that each combination is illustrated in the form of a "flat" CAD-like sketch which lacks real-life depth and is limited in conveying the "feel" of the combination. The ilustrations are sterile and insipid looking. I believe that this book would have been ideal if, instead, a photograph of an interior, utilizing the color palette, would have been used.

This interesting book is a highly informative and useful field guide to the world of color. Not only did I get useful theory and a handy book of palettes for decorating and fashion....but I also found it so much fun to browse through. After we bought a house, I kept this book at my bedside for several weeks and every night enjoyed looking through the pages, thinking about color combinations and possibilities. This will be a reference book I'll always keep.

The only inspiration I got from this book was to write a review to warn others not to buy it.
Many of the color combinations seem completely off--and I'm very color oriented and progressive!
Although it offers specific manufacturer paint references, I did NOT find the colors to be true when I compared them to the actual paint chips at the paint stores. So, that was completely useless, not to mention frustrating.
This book, with its flat ideas was such a waste of my money I wouldn't even 'resell' it through Amazon because I would feel guilty.

I don't know very much about color. I just know what colors I like. And this book helped me work with those colors and match them with others so that my rooms look phenomenal. I painted two rooms before I had The Color Palette Primer and I paid to redo them once I bought it because I saw what a difference it made. Thank you to the author for creating such a great resource!

This book is nothing but some color swatches. There are no photos to show how the combinations can be used and the combinations are not even interesting - - just the same basic stuff over and over again, I would not buy this book again and it's one of the few books that I have ever thrown away.