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The Color Scheme Bible: Inspirational Palettes for Designing Home Interiors

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Manufacturer: Firefly Books

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A practical guide to using color successfully.

The power of color is its ability to influence mood, create atmosphere, and enhance perception. As a result, one of the most effective ways to transform any room is by changing its color. Which colors to use is the challenge.

The Color Scheme Bible is a practical, yet inspiring reference for those who want to take advantage of different colors without clashing. It contains 150 color scheme ideas for home decorators and interior designers.

The book explains how to choose colors that will complement each other for a subdued effect, and which colors and combinations will energize the room.

Topics covered include:

• How color creates ambiance and atmosphere
• Using color to give a small room the illusion of space and depth
• How to create the feeling of warmth and light with color
• Distinctive color schemes inspired by nature, art, travel and even a favorite possession.

The book also includes a variety of color combination palettes that can be used with different materials for refreshingly original color schemes.

The Color Scheme Bible is an essential handbook for home decorators and interior designers.

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Spiral-bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.94
EAN: 9781554070329
ISBN: 1554070325
Label: Firefly Books
Manufacturer: Firefly Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2005-04-02
Publisher: Firefly Books
Studio: Firefly Books


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Color Schemes Made Easy (Better Homes & Gardens)
• Decorating Idea Book (Idea Books)
• Choosing Colors: An Expert Choice of the Best Colors to Use in Your Home
• Interior Design Color Wheel Helps You Harmonize You Interior Design Projects. (Pkg. of 2)
• Color in Interior Design


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Best Money I've Spent -
Over the years, I have purchased many, many books from Amazon but this is my first review. I found this book to be so complete and so useful and practical that I had to give it kudos! I have been thinking about a remodel project on my home and studio for a few years but each time I make a serious effort to get started, I get tripped up by color combinations. This book has solved my problem. It is very complete, containing information on color theory as well as page after page of color palettes that really work! This book will stretch your imagination about how colors can work together and complement each other. On my own, I would never have chosen many of these color combos, but seeing them together in this handy spiral-bound book they look like they were made for each other. This is the most useful book I have purchased in a very long time, and, as others have mentioned, the spiral binding is very convenient. If you feel overwhelmed with the hundreds (maybe thousands) of color swatches offered at your local home improvement store, buy this book. It will turn an indecisive do-it-yourselfer into a productive home improver.

Inspiring -
I found "The Color Scheme Bible" at the library and a quick browse told me this was a book I needed to own. . While it certainly doesn't contain every possible color scheme it does give a remarkable range of them, and inspires me to create some of my own.

I'm also using it in Real Estate, to show my clients inexpensive ways to work with hard to change features in order to adjust the mood of a room.

Dissappointed -
Was really looking forward to this book as all the reviews were so positive. My wife and I wanted to get some color scheme ideas for our new house. Unfortunately i just was not that impressed with the schemes laid out in the 'bible'.

Great Resource for the Color-Challenged! -
This book gave me the courage to paint the crown molding in my master bedroom a color other than white! And, wow, what a difference. Plus, the book provided me with an entire color scheme for the room: sheets, flooring, pillows, etc.

You can use the book in two ways: choose a scheme and follow it religiously or use a scheme as a jumping-off point. Either way, you can't lose. This book is well worth my $30 investment.

Insightful Bliss... -
I found this book to be informative and very easy to relate to. As I had purchased this title along with another great book, Your Home A Living Canvas: Create Stunning Faux Finishes & Murals with Paint - to gain as much insight into using color to cozy up my old home. Both books far exceeded my expectations, as both authors explain in detail the impact particular tones have upon a space. The warm and inviting interiors featured in these titles offer the reader much inspiration and visual reference to borrow from. Highly recommended for those wanting to discover the secrets to using vibrant color to transform the drab to the fabulous!!!!!

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