Color

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From cool blues to warming reds, from natural browns
to sea greens, choosing the most suitable colors for your
home can be both exciting and rewarding. So, whether
you want a complete color theme for a whole room or
simply wish to add a dash of vibrant color to an existing
scheme, Color is packed with inspirational ideas for
introducing color to every room in the house.
Color guides you through some basic lessons in color
theory and explores the fundamentals of color, light,
space, texture, materials, proportion, and paint and
shows how different colors influence a room's atmo-
sphere.There is advice on drawing inspiration from the
colors and textures of the natural world as a starting
point for a whole color scheme as well as tips on using
difficult colors such as black, white, and gray. Further
subtleties can also be achieved depending on the type of
light, whether natural or artificial, and on the time of day
and the season; there is helpful guidance on... Tovább

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From cool blues to warming reds, from natural browns
to sea greens, choosing the most suitable colors for your
home can be both exciting and rewarding. So, whether
you want a complete color theme for a whole room or
simply wish to add a dash of vibrant color to an existing
scheme, Color is packed with inspirational ideas for
introducing color to every room in the house.
Color guides you through some basic lessons in color
theory and explores the fundamentals of color, light,
space, texture, materials, proportion, and paint and
shows how different colors influence a room's atmo-
sphere.There is advice on drawing inspiration from the
colors and textures of the natural world as a starting
point for a whole color scheme as well as tips on using
difficult colors such as black, white, and gray. Further
subtleties can also be achieved depending on the type of
light, whether natural or artificial, and on the time of day
and the season; there is helpful guidance on choosing the
perfect color for a particular room—warm colors, for
example, are ideal for a north-facing room. Armed with
these simple rules, you can then apply color to your own
home—to walls, ceilings, floors, and furniture—and
create the desired mood with just the right shade.
The theories are then put into practice with a stunning
portfolio of decorative schemes that really work.
Organized into five main color groups—Linen, Paper,
and String; Chocolate, Amber, and Silver; Ice Cream,
Sherbet, and Biscotti; Sea, Sky, and Driftwood; and Red
Wine and Roses—this book provides an enticing range of
successful color combinations. With inspiring large-scale
photographs of whole rooms combined with guidance
on incorporating striking soft furnishings and other
accessories to add that indefinable finishing touch, there
is a color scheme for every taste.
With 200 color photographs, useful color swatches and a
directory of suppliers for many of the materials featured
in the book, Color is perfect for the would-be decorator,
giving you the confidence and know-how to transform
your home with color. Vissza