Color Your Home Beautiful [Paperback]

Martha Gill (Author), Mark McCauley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2002

Color Your Home Beautiful shows how to use color to create style and atmosphere in your home. Guiding the reader through many styles and hundreds of color combinations, the book explores how the right colors on walls, furniture, and fabrics can create harmony and a sense of well being in the home. Full color photographs and trademarked Color Harmony color palettes are used throughout to illustrate the various mood and lifestyle associations that color combinations can create. These illustrations, along with decorating tips, historic and artistic origins of color, and more help the reader to come up with the right combination for specific rooms and styles.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA) (September 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571458476
• ISBN-13: 978-1571458476
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,023,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Color Your Home, February 24, 2005

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This review is from: Color Your Home Beautiful (Paperback)

This book had some great color combinations. The rooms showed punches of color in a variety of styles, however, most of the rooms were contemporary/modern. If you aren't timid about using color you could definitely draw some ideas from this book.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Room Colors, January 8, 2006

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Sonya "readaholic" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color Your Home Beautiful (Paperback)

The color photographs in this book are incredible. Most of the rooms are decorated with either bright, dark or medium tones of color. There are some more muted colors too, so something for everyone. There are various styles represented in this book, mainly contemporary, traditional and modern looks.

I'm not a color expert, but some of the colors used for the Serenity section, did not really seem serene, i.e. bright orange. In the Choosing the Right Color section, the chapters are divided either by color or mood (red, spicy, exotic, natural, green, dynamic). Along with a discussion of some possible color combinations, there are gorgeous photographs. When the section discusses a particular color, there are side panels from various interior designers or "experts" on their experience with the use of the color. Each color section ends with sample color palettes for monochromatic, complementary, split complementary, analogous and neutral color selection options.

I liked this book mainly for it's gorgeous pictures, decorating tips and color combination ideas.

5.0 out of 5 stars Creative and beautiful color, November 29, 2011

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This review is from: Color Your Home Beautiful (Paperback)

I just love this book...I was having trouble figuring out what color combinations to use for redecorating my home...this book is a keeeper..