House Beautiful Color [Hardcover]

Sally Clark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2001

Color is perhaps the most frightening and difficult aspect of home decorating. But it can also be the most personally expressive, affordable, and rewarding. This new volume offers advice, information, and examples from decorators and homeowners throughout the country. 150 color photos.

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Color - perhaps no other aspect of interior decorating is as exciting, affordable, expressive, or rewarding. Or intimidating. How many of us ever follow our impulse to paint the dining room bright blue, or to slipcover the sofa in a boldly patterned print?

This new volume from the editors of House Beautiful is filled with enough information, advice, and examples from designers, architects, and homeowners to inspire just the right degree of decorating confidence.

The first step is understanding what color is and how it can be incorporated in every scheme, large and small, for every room of the house. More than 140 beautiful color photographs, profiling homes throughout the country, illustrated the full spectrum, from saturated jewel tones and the lovely pastel tints that can be derived from them, to the soft and soothing tones that take their cue from nature. The dramatic pairings of lights and darks that have become design classics are explored, as well as rooms done entirely in tones of white.

The second pat of the book is devoted to ideas for using these colors and color combinations - painted surfaces, fabrics, and those all-important finishing touches that truly bring a room to life, from pillows to lamps to personal collections.

House Beautiful Color will surely make you think and feel differently about color.

About the Author

House Beautiful has reigned as America's leading decorating and style magazine in the United States for more than 100 years.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Hearst; Revised edition (December 31, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588160122
• ISBN-13: 978-1588160126
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,646,221 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not So Colorful, August 22, 2008

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Classicdude (River City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: House Beautiful Color (Hardcover)

Despite a promising but tight view of the cobalt blue walls of the living room of architect/decorator duo Peter Pennoyer and Katie Ridder that appears on the dust jacket, there really are not many colorful interiors in this book; only the same shot of this room appears within the book. The Long Island living room of the late decorator Mark Hampton appears in several pictures; it is a handsome room but with dark brown walls and white furniture, it is relatively neutral along with the rest of the rooms in the book. Part of the Great Style series from projects previously published in HOUSE BEAUTIFUL magazine, this edition is not up to the standards of some of the others in the same series. Someone looking for ideas and/or advice for color in interior design would be better served elsewhere.

3.0 out of 5 stars Limited Color, August 22, 2008

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Classicdude (River City) - See all my reviews

See my review of another edition of this same book which was first published in 1993. Although attractive, the rooms presented in this book, culled from earlier editions of HOUSE BEAUTIFUL magazine, are not particularly colorful. Those looking for inspiration for use of color might be better served elsewhere.