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Perfect Palettes for Painting Rooms: Plus Complete Decorating Guidelines

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Manufacturer: Quarry Books

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Homeowners spend hours staring at color swatches at their local paint stores. How can they make sure that colors that look great on a 2 x 2 square of paper will also look great on the walls of their favorite rooms?

This is the book for every home decorator who’s never painted before and for those who swore they’d never paint again. Written by professional paint color consultant Bonnie Rosser Krims, this is the foolproof guide to choosing the best color scheme for every room, the first time, every time.

Krims unveils 40 new color recipes, all chosen from top manufacturers and tested in the homes of real clients. She walks readers through rooms painted bright, neutral, and everywhere in between, and provides tools and tips for getting exactly the look you want.

Like having a professional paint consultant in your home, this user-friendly guide can make anyone an instant color expert—and every room a showcase by offering simple, no-nonsense decorating guidelines that will help you reevaluate, reorganize, and revitalize every room in your home.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.94
EAN: 9781564969965
ISBN: 1564969967
Label: Quarry Books
Manufacturer: Quarry Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2003-10-01
Publisher: Quarry Books
Studio: Quarry Books


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• The Color Scheme Bible: Inspirational Palettes for Designing Home Interiors
• Choosing Colors: An Expert Choice of the Best Colors to Use in Your Home
• Color Schemes Made Easy (Better Homes & Gardens)
• Perfectly Painted House: A Foolproof Guide for Choosing Exterior Colors for Your Home
• The Perfect Palette: Fifty Inspired Color Plans for Painting Every Roomin Your Home


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

indeed helpful -
This is a very nice book. It gives you ideas of shades and colors. It also gives various scheme options of how you would want to color each room.

Helpful book -
I found the book to be helpful, but I would have liked more "color recipes". There were ideas for all types of rooms.

Vibrantly Colored Rooms -
This book has good, clear photos and include the paint brand (Glidden, Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams) and color number. Always helpful when you are trying to match colors. Most of the rooms are very vibrant in color and the rooms are decorated in a mostly traditional style. Very nice book if you like vibrant colors, but my taste leans to a more subdued color palette.

THIS BOOK GIVES OUT THE COLOR NUMBERS! -
I have looked at a lot of home decorating books for help with my paint colors. Many have lovely photographs, but not a one of them gives you the paint color numbers that you see on the walls of the photographed rooms, EXCEPT THIS ONE. I couldn't believe it. I was still nervous going into the paint phase, not knowing whether the colors would look as good on my walls as they do in the book. Well, let me tell you, they look even better! I am as pleased as punch. If you don't want to look through paint chips, try this book.

Disappointing -
This book was a disappointment to me. Ms. Krims is certainly talented--but in a sort of loud and juvenile way, at least for my tastes. My wife said it best, after flipping through the book: This looks like what you do when you are in college, trying to disguise an ugly room. The book lacks subtlety. Her color palettes for the most part are too loud for my tastes--and I like color (I have a mango kitchen and apple green office). I agree with my wife: most of her color schemes would work best to disguise an ugly space or to distract the viewer from cheap furniture or some other bad feature in the room. I can't imagine using many of her color palettes in designing a room with great architectural features or a room that will be filled with beautiful furniture. Also, if you are looking for theory, this book has scant if any of it. This was not what I was looking for.

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