Colors For Your Every Mood: Discover Your True Decorating Colors (Capital Lifestyles) [Paperback]

Leatrice Eiseman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Capital Lifestyles | Publication Date: August 25, 2000

America's leading color expert shows how to choose the right color combinations for all your rooms based on Color Moods from your own personality, nature, and travel. Most decorating books start out telling readers how to achieve someone else's notion of how a room should look. This book is different. It helps you determine how you want yourself, your family, and your friends to feel when entering each room in your home. It combines psychology with a practical how-to and reveals which colors and color combinations will achieve the feeling and personal style you want to project in each room.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Eiseman (Alive with Color, LJ 6/15/83) presents a comprehensive reference for the amateur and professional to use in choosing color schemes for interior decorating. She provides ways to identify responses to color, looks at color's use in creating a mood, and provides different settings that can help inspire color choices. The psychological, sociological, and historical meaning of each color is then detailed, as is its use in particular rooms. A good companion to The Color Book: 11,264 Color Combinations for Your Home (LJ 1/98); highly recommended for all interior design collections and public libraries.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

Looks at the emotional meanings of color, and provides color palettes aimed at evoking certain moods in a room --Chicago Tribune

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Capital Books; 1st Capital Pbk. Ed edition (August 25, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189212338X
• ISBN-13: 978-1892123381
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #216,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Leader at the Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training and also executive director of the Pantone® Color Institute. I am the author of seven books on color, among them:  Colors For Your Every Mood which was chosen as a Book of the Month Club selection and received an award from the Independent Publisher's Association, thePantone® Guide to Communicating With Color, Color Answer Book, More Alive With Color, and my most recent book, Color:   Messages & Meanings, a Pantone® Color Resource which won the Create Awards' Best of Industry award. I have also written chapters in one of web page flash guru Hillman Curtis' works as well as in a book published in Japan titled the Power of Color, written by Kaori Mukawa.

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great color resource, October 24, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Colors For Your Every Mood: Discover Your True Decorating Colors (Capital Lifestyles) (Paperback)

This is an excellent book, written by someone who is truly a “color expert.” After reading this book, you’ll be able to select a color scheme to create an intended effect. In my opinion, one of the most helpful aspects of this book was Ms. Eiseman’s list of 15 neutral colors listed on page 59. It’s easy for most of us to pick one or two colors that go together pretty well, but after that things get pretty confusing. These 15 neutral colors, which go with absolutely any color scheme, are wonderful for selecting colors from across the spectrum that will remain harmonious with any color scheme. And you might be surprised to find that colors like True Red or Midnight Navy are “neutral colors.” You will find lots of interesting details like this in the book.

Although this book is in and of itself an excellent resource, I don’t believe that it can be considered a complete resource without the reader also having a copy of the Pantone Textile Color Guide Paper Edition as its companion (and the author makes reference to that on page 173). As with any printed book, the colors of this book are not reproduced exactly as they were intended. However, the Pantone guide gives you a dead-on perfect rendition of the colors Ms. Eiseman cites in the book. This is important if you want to match up paint swatches or fabric colors to those in the book.

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An indepth guide to understanding color, December 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Colors For Your Every Mood: Discover Your True Decorating Colors (Capital Lifestyles) (Paperback)

Lee Eiseman's book really helped me understand why certain colors and color combinations work in a home. Once you understand how certain colors affect you, then your decorating choices become clearer. This is a great book to have if you are buying a new home, remodeling, or simply redecorating. The Pantone color chips that are printed in the books are very helpful in illustrating various color combinations. I especially enjoyed Lee's rich descriptions of color.

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Color Reference "MUST HAVE" for the Professional or Novice, December 11, 2000

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J M.H. Schwanke, aaf, AIFD PFCI (Comstock Park, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Colors For Your Every Mood: Discover Your True Decorating Colors (Capital Lifestyles) (Paperback)

As a Design Industry Education Specialist who gives over 70 design related workshops and educational events every year, this Leatrice Eiseman offering(now available in paperback too) is THE Top of my recommendation list.

Offering a simple defined test to allow you to select the colors best suited for your presonal mood and preference, whether for your home or work environment.

However COLORS FOR YOUR EVERY MOOD is soooooo much more!

With detailed descriptions and discussions about how each color affects the way we feel as human beings. Also discussion on how color combinations are effectively used to persuade the buying public, combat aggressive behavior, influence our appetites and more.

A wonderful preceeding read to the NEW "Communicating with Color" just out in the market now (another must read)!

Colors for your every mood gives exactly what it promises...colors for YOUR every mood. The detailed description of each color is fascinating and enthralling putting your specific colors into an interesting unique perspective.

I have had the opportunity to see Leatrice Eiseman in action on several occasions. She is a fascinating, education expert. This book is a close representation of experiencing her wonderful insight in person. One of the foremost color experts in the world shares and divuldges her vast color expertise and education for everyone.

Easy to read, in short bits or to completely digest in one sitting...(I always find it hard to put down) you will find yourself returning to this fascinating color reference tool time and time again...as your colors for your every mood change and evolve.

Kudos to Ms. Eiseman for creating a book that transends other color methodology and "boring textbook references", colors for your every mood is ALIVE with Color and full of color secrets that will change the way you experience color in your business, professional or home environment.