The New Home Color Book: Decorate With Color Like a Professional Designer (Best of Brochure Design) - Softcover

Kasabian, Anna

9781564968098: The New Home Color Book: Decorate With Color Like a Professional Designer (Best of Brochure Design)

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ISBN 10: 156496809X ISBN 13: 9781564968098

Publisher: Quarry Books, 2001

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A guide to decorating with color provides advice on color schemes for every room in the house.

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About the Author:

Anna Kasabian is a writer and editor whose byline frequently appears in Design Times magazine and the Boston Globe, where she writes about interior design, garden design, and travel. The author of East Coast Rooms and Designing with Tile (both from Rockport Publishers), she lives in New York State.

Introduction:

Too many of us feel like deer in headlights when it comes to choosing a color theme for our rooms. And, too often, we stick with the safe choices In paint or wall coverings to avoid taking a big design leap.

I am convinced part of that fear of making a colorfaux pas comes from a lack of Inspiration. Studying paint chips in a fluorescent—lit store is enough to set anyone into permanent color daze!

So in the spirit of inspirations in color, The New Home Color Book presents an immense array of rooms divided into color—denoted chapters to give you a fresh look at ways to use color in your home, and ultimately, motivate you to take a color path you’ve never ventured down before.

To enjoy, appreciate, and then move on to experimenting with new color palettes takes practice and exposure. Remember the first time you tasted an unusual ethnic dish while traveling? You were perhaps hesitant at first, but the more dishes you tried and the more you came to understand the people, their culture, and their culinary ways, the more excited you became to sample more dishes. And maybe when you came home, you started experimenting in your own kitchen with a new herb or sauce from that trip.

Color is no different. It takes some getting used to, and sometimes it’s easier to start with little bites! If you’ve always had white wall and a white couch with beige pillows, perhaps this book will give you the confidence to toss the beige pillows for a medley of red, orange, and yellow ones.

Get ready to be drenched in the color expe4rience, and listen as the experts cheer you on to take a new color leap.

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