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Even if you know what your favorite colors are, you may be unsure about covering your living space with them. Yet with the right approach, colors can greatly enhance--even create--the visual and emotional appeal of any room. Properly chosen, color can make a smaller room seem larger, a cavernous space seem cozy; it can add structure or introduce simplicity. Drawing on a palette of 26 full-spectrum colors, this book demystifies color properties, explaining how to plan a palette that will work wonders throughout a home. Learn how intensity, light and shadow, background tones, contrast, and architectural details all play a part in a successful color scheme. Find the colors for your walls, doors, and trim that will make everything in the room come alive. By adapting ideas from this beautifully photographed book, you can create an interior you love, enlivened with the colors that are both right for the space and for your own personal style. --Amy Handy

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  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Clarkson Potter; 1st edition (March 17, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 060960144X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0609601440
  • Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 9 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #365,479 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Kaufman--the ultimate colorist and color corrector, February 8, 2001
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For those who wrote reviews complaining of boring or limited color palettes in this book, you are not understanding the concept behind pigment color and the underlying potential dangers. Paint stores mute colors with black instead of the complement. Traditional paint stores also use just a few pigments in each color. This "easy formuating" by paint stores and muting with black gives you muddied and problem colors. Kaufman mixes with 10-15 colors in his paint and they are magical to see in person. (All mail orderable from L.A. or New Jersey, you can order a trial pint, too).

Kaufman paints are as he says, full of depth mixed with many pigments (instead of the 3-4 in paint stores). The results are astounding and almost intimidating when you see the colors on your walls. Reflected light changes the paint color in a fascinating way every 15 minutes.

I painted last night a troublesome northern room with an early morning east and early morning southern exposure. They room has vaulted ceilings and shadows. Usually ALL colors greyout with cold, then green reflected color. Yesterday this room was painted with DKC #3 and this morning I woke up to a prism on my wall on the new Kaufman color. Was there a mirror or glass to reflect this? No, I never saw it with former colors on the wall. Kaufman demystifies why wall colors are flat and uninteresting and makes them live by infusing them with many pigments.

He also tells you that you can mix your own colors as well. Using white base paint and using universal tints. This way, as he directs, you can mute with the color's complementary color and NOT black and have intriguing walls. Just write down the recipe.

This book needed more statements telling people how to correct for troubling light exposures and troubling rooms. The public is thirsty for this. But, alas, perhaps his latest books covers this area, I haven't been able to find it in a bookstore yet. Alaways sold out.

My only wish is that Kaufman is not my best friend. I have plenty of questions for him about nuances of color!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Conceptual color eye-opener, June 2, 2000
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Although I am an Architect, I find choosing and using colors still confusing, though I roughly know red from green. I have read some color books and am still confused. When I picked up this book, I thought, "Oh, another color book. Won't help me much." On reading it, I found the DK concept, that colors should reflect the real richness of color mixes found in the natural world, to be an eye-opener. The book goes on to give examples with explanations. The concept is refreshing, but the examples and explanations is quite conceptual, and not as specific as I would have liked, on choosing the actual colors. Still, I find my eyes slowly opening more and more as I read and reread the book. I intend to get the other two related books.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars worth every penny, November 6, 2000
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I bought 4 books on color, and this is my favorite. I just bought a new house, and I had to choose a color scheme for the entire house. This is the book that de-mystified colors for me, and helped me through the entire process. The best part of this book for me is the "Forward". I could read it again and again. Another valuable thing about this book is the emphasis throughout on the surrounding environment of each room, and how this environment impacts the color choice. Wow! Thanks to this book I considered the view from each window and doorway when I chose my colors. I came up with an entirely different scheme than I would have had I not read the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent - If you understand color and art
I understand why many readers have given this book a thumbs down; readers need a fine art background and strong understanding of color theory to follow this book. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars "Atmospheric" ?
Well, this book was a big waste of money. If you want to live with all the "atmosphere" of a brown paper bag, buy this. If you want to put color into your home, don't.
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This book is very good for those that realize normal colors exist. I can't decorate a home like a magazine because I live on earth. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Colors that aren't boring but are livable
The person who wrote the review saying she was trying to get away from builder beige may not understand what these colors look like in person. Read more
Published on July 18, 2003 by Jill S.

1.0 out of 5 stars Sadly old looking
This book is old looking and is not giving me the inspiration and help I was looking for. I'm trying to get away from my "builder beige" house so the idea of... Read more
Published on June 2, 2003

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book for color
DK's color palatte is the best.
Published on October 9, 2002

1.0 out of 5 stars A dud
The reviewers who love this book must be looking at a different book than the one I received. Or maybe those reviews were written by the author's mother! Read more
Published on March 15, 2002 by Sandy Van Note

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
This book is a beautiful and practical guide to selecting a palette from Donald Kaufman's wonderful and luminous paint line. Read more
Published on March 13, 2002

1.0 out of 5 stars Depressing
We got this book as a housewarming gift. I appreciated the thought but not the book. I moved into a "builder beige" house, and we're working to put color on the walls... Read more
Published on February 26, 2002 by Mary Beth Pasteur

1.0 out of 5 stars Just a commercial
I didn't know that this book was all about beige until I received my copy. Wish I'd read some of these reviews sooner.I want COLOR in my home. Read more
Published on September 7, 2001 by Merilee Pinkerton

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