The Perfect Palette: Fifty Inspired Color Plans for Painting Every Room in Your Home
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0446523488 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 137 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Good For Inspiration Only Joseph Boone The basic idea of this book is one that really appeals to me. Faced with the desire to decorate a new home and overwhelmed with the choices of color, I was hoping to find a palette that would work for me. In actuality, it's unlikely you'll find a palette that matches your tastes so perfectly that you'll choose to use the exact tones offered in the examples. What you will find is a collection of 50 palettes that should help give you some idea which color combinations are most pleasing both to your eye and are approved by a professional decorator. While you might not want the exact green and . Good Concept but needs photos, better color reproduction Dave I bought this book recently because the concept seemed very inviting: a book with 50 tried & true color schemes for painting rooms in my house. Unfortunately, I'm afraid I was expecting more than I received.The book has 50 "recipes" of colors, each consisting of three major colors that would work well together, and recommendations for accent and trim colors. Each color recipe occupies two pages in the book.The three colors are painted in rectangles on the top of the right page along with a text only description of recommended trim and accent colors. On the left page is either a photograph o. Boring, BOring Jood Ugg--should have checked the publishing date before I purchased it. Boring, BOring, BORING! Dated, palettes that looked like the same washed out sets of colors over & over again.
Color photos & illustrations.. Reminiscent of the successful "Laura Ashley: Using Color to Decorate Your Home", this book, the "only" guidebook available for selecting and combining paint color, includes 50 fail-safe color combinations for home interiors
"The Emerald Isle," a green/yellow/violet combination with accents of dark orange and white trim, is "sassy, lush, luminous," and will make darker wood furniture "look lovely." Color Palettes is both intensely practical and utterly lovely, and will almost certainly inspire some brave experimentation. Even though paint is one of the least expensive ways to change the look of a room, most people find those little cards of color chips too intimidating. Each page describes a palette of three Benjamin Moore paint colors, thou