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

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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.

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.

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.

I was a bit dissappointed in this book, for two main reasons and several minor ones.

As a usability professional, I had bought it for the psychophysical effects of color on humans. This was my mistake, it does not advertise itself for this but was recommended to me for this purpose by another individual. It does have some of this, but inconsistantly. As I am interested in color both jobwise and for decorating, I read it regardless.

COLORS WERE OFF IN CHIPS FOR PREFERENCE CHECK: The major thing I find fault with, was the color chips it uses in its test for personal preference, were poor representatives of the colors it was meant to represent. Ironically, there is a disclaimer on the book that this may not be a true representation, but I would think a book about color preferences should go out of its way to be sure this is done well. All the color chips appeared to be washed out. As I do not like pastels, I feel this "colored" my impressions significantly. Also I feel some were quite a bit off either too much yellow or green etc.

INDIVIDUAL COLOR SUBTOPICS INCONSISTENT: The other major complaint I has was that under the specific color topics (there were 11), the subtopics were inconsistent. If I wanted to compare the physiological responses of Red to that of Brown for instance, I would be out of luck as the subtopics from one color to another were not consistent. Some had one type of information and another had others. I also found the information provided on each color to be more of just a memory dump of information on each color and not necessarily entirely pertinent or stuff I would really want to know.

COLOR COMBINATION EXAMPLES NOT NEAR DISCUSSIONS: Another thing I found particularly frustrating is that examples of color combinations showing various moods were interspersed in the book, and not near the discussion. It made is hard to compare and you were always turning pages.

COLOR MOOD DISCUSSIONS SHOWED NAMES INSTEAD OF COLORS: Besides having the examples not near the color mood discussions, there were names of colors used, that weren't even repeated in the examples or elsewhere in the book. I did not check all, but the several I did check this was the case. If nothing else even the RGB equivalents would have helped. Maybe these were Pantone names (it didn't indicate this), but unless you have a chart this would not help.

PUTTING THE COLOR MOOD EXAMPLES INTERSPERSED IN THE BOOK WAS CONFUSING TO THE AREA IT WAS PLOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF: Even when reading, since you would read the first part on color moods before that of the individual colors, it was confusing when you ran into the color mood discussions while reading about a specific color that it was not pertinent to. On top of that in order to refer back to the color mood examples, you had to find their discussion area to find their page numbers instead of being able to refer just to a specific area to go back to. I used post it note tabs to keep track, but I shouldn't have to.

This book could've been so much more. It suffered poor execution in the colors and bad organization.

Lee is THE expert when it comes to color. I met her at a "colorful" lecture she gave for interior designers, and this book is as wonderful as she is. So often it is hard, especially for the novice, to figure out what we want our interior spaces to look like! This book is the right place to start. It will help you figure out what atmosphere or feeling you want your space to have by beginning with the color mood. The photos are great, and the color combinations are very well done and a provide a great springboard for the imagination. While the text is well done and very useful, you can get a lot accomplished by just looking at the pictures of the color combinations and the great photography.

This is an excellent book for beginners, designer-wanna-bes as well as professionals who deal with color and color-combinations for a living. Interior designers will find it helpful in that it is a great resource to show a client who can't verbalize what colors/moods they want you to create for them. I highly recommend this book!

Colors have always been a great mystery to me. I love them, but have never been able to make them Work!

This book is my solution. It provides not only indept information about each color and what part of the house to use it, it provides information on the emotional use of color.

Now I must decide if colors in my rooms should be traditional, whimsical, rustic, etc.

I am adicted to this book. I wake up at night and turn on the light to look at certain colors again.

Wonderful book!

I love the book because it gives you so much inspiration and it is so well explained.
The pictures are beautiful and you learn so much about colours just by enjoying reading the articles.
As a Colour Designer I find it very easy to follow and ressourcful of informations. I get more confident to talk about colours and passionate too, because this book was written by someone loving colours and it simply feels good.

Colors for your every mood is the best book ever. I have been a Eiseman since a long time and have all her books. This is her best work yet.

The book not only talks about color combinations but also the history and personalities of colors. Although this book is for interior and how to color your homes being a textile designer i found it insightful and a guide for my work. Keep up the good work.

As a web developer I spend most of my day writing code and worrying about the code working on all browsers, etc. Up until recently I had no desire to learn about color and the feelings behind it. If you are in a similar situation look no more. This book has made a permanent position on my desk and will continue to help me with the design and development of my future projects. Hats off to the authors....
I have fully recommended this book to the entire Long island Flash User's Group (LIFUG).

Leatrice Eiseman is the founder and director of the Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training and spokesperson for Pantone Inc. In Colors For Your Every Mood, Leatrice draws upon her many years of experience and expertise to provide the reader with an informative, accessible reference for discovering one's true decorating colors to create calm and soothing or dramatic and excitement for the apartment or home interiors. Illustrated with more than 150 color combinations representing the entire spectrum of "moods", Colors For Your Every Mood is replete with practical, highly recommended information and psychological insights for the do-it-yourself room designer seeking to evoke feelings of whimsy, nurturence, tradition, romance, contemplation, dynamism, tranquilly, sensuality, the exotic, or the natural in their living and working spaces.