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The New Color Book: 45,000 Color Combinations for Your Home

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List Price: $24.95
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With almost 200,000 copies sold, The Color Book has proven itself the must-have color manual for the home decorator. Now completely revised and updated, and featuring all-new colors in fresh and contemporary palettes, this new edition invigorates the best-selling classic. Professional designers and decorators know what effect a change in color will have, but for many of us, choosing paint still feels like a bit of a gamble. We may love that deep rose color on the paint chip, but what will it actually look like on the wall, against oak flooring and a cream ceiling? With The New Color Book, anyone can instantly see what colors will work, and what colors won't. Ninety-six pages, each cut horizontally into three sections -- floor, walls, and ceiling -- can be flipped separately to instantly mix-and-match a vast array of colors. Covering the bathroom, bedroom, living room, and kitchen, The New Color Book visually demonstrates 45,000 different color combinations, offering near endless inspiration and tangible assistance in selecting the perfect color scheme for every room. The accompanying text presents an accessible guide to choosing and mixing colors, while a color key and practical directory offer additional resources. Decorators will like using the unique mix-and-match method to help clients make smart choices, while the do-it-yourself crowd can use it to identify the best color combinations for every room, without resorting to the expense and frustration of trial and error.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Spiral-bound
Brand: Remainder
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Amazon Remainders Account
Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2004-04-30
Publisher: Amazon Remainders Account
Studio: Amazon Remainders Account


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• The Color Scheme Bible: Inspirational Palettes for Designing Home Interiors
• Interiors by Design: Advice and Inspiration from the Professionals
• Choosing Colors: An Expert Choice of the Best Colors to Use in Your Home
• Color Schemes Made Easy (Better Homes & Gardens)
• The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live (Susanka)


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Not worth the money
Comment: I wish I had read the comments before I bought this! I just assumed it would be color combos for decorating (like couches, pillows, curtains, accessories, etc.). Instead, you get ceiling color (who paints the ceiling something other than white?), wall color and floor color (in the bathroom, the only material options are wood and rubber -- where's the tile?). I was totally disappointed. I don't want a book of wall colors that have been changed via computer! If I wanted that, I'd just go to Home Depot or Lowe's and get the little cards that the paint manufacturers produce.

Bleech! Don't buy this book. It's a waste of money. I'm sorry I bought it. I'll probably never even reference it again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: not as useful as expected
Comment: I purchased this book with the hope it would give me some ideas on how to paint my condo. Unfortunately, I spent more time fussing with the pages so they would line up instead of getting ideas. I think the concept is good, but the execution could be done better. Overall, I would look elsewhere for ideas on painting your interiors.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty cover, but totally useless
Comment: I ordered this thinking it would be a great reference book for quick color palettes. I am a paint color specialist and I think it is the worst book I have ever encountered published on color for your home. There are far too many choices for homeowners in here and the photo's to help you work with your floor and wall colors are less than inspiring. I would purchase Choosing Colors, by Kevin McCloud -- by far the best color reference book I have ever used.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not as helpful as I would have liked
Comment:
As I stated in the title, this book was not as helpful (to me) as I would have liked.

The format of this book is as a "flip book".What this means is that each chapter has a specific color scheme and then you can flip the top or the bottom part of each page until you find a color combination that you prefer.

The negative part of this book is that the author shows very few "settings" by which a person can flip through. Therefore, in each chapter the same couch and wood trim are shown over and over again and the only thing that changes is the top or the bottom of each page. At first I found this was a bit interesting, but after just a few page flips I realized that I needed more settings in order to visualize each color combination. Thus, the pages are just too stagnant.

I paid full price for this book and I kick myself for doing that. I wish I had either personally reviewed this book first , or paid a lot less for it. So I suppose that if you can find this book for a cheap price, then it may be interesting to own.However, I think there are so many other more valuable books out there on the subject of "decorating & choosing interior home colors",that I would explore those first.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Interesting to flip through, but not very useful
Comment: This is a fun book. Kind of like the flip books where you make funny cartoon characters. But this is colors for walls, ceilings, and floors.
It's neat to see how different a room (same furniture) looks with pink walls and yellow ceiling as opposed to blue walls, green ceiling.

But while it's kind of neat to play with, I don't see how it is very useful. There are sections for living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens. Each section has two different rooms - one more country-style decorated, the other a little more modern.

The furniture pieces in the living rooms and bedrooms are very neutral. Both bedrooms and both living rooms however feature light colored furniture, I would have prefered one option to show darker woods since that is mainly what I have in my house.

The floor color choices are not that great either. Not enough neutrals for the floor choices, since most people would be working with what they already have on the floor, and using this mainly to choose a wall color.

One of the bathrooms features a grayish-green counter and tilework. One kitchen has white cabinets, one kitchen has yellow cabinets. Those colors really affect how you see the other colors in the room. Great if you have that color already in your house and are trying to work around it, but not so great if you are trying to actually choose colors for your house.

So if you can get a used copy for not much, it is fun to look through. Not worth full price, unless you have a houseful of very light colored furniture or are completely starting from scratch.

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