Color Solutions (Better Homes & Gardens)

By Better Homes and Gardens

Book Overview

By starting with the elements that make the colour statement -- walls, woodwork, ceilings, fabric, furniture, and floor covers -- this book helps you to identify the look you want to create and chart... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0696212404
• ISBN13: 9780696212406
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Better Homes & Gardens Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

This book is very helpful and beautiful to look at.

I'm very pleased with this book. I wanted something that would help me figure out what colors to use, whether or not to paint the molding, and how to make one room flow with another. This book addressed all of those issues and more! I am very pleased with the layout and how the book is set up as a Q & A format. I would highly recommend this book.

Full of ideas and answers

We love color but had not found a decorating book about color that actually helped us and showed real homes until we got this one. It's the kind of book we can flip through for ideas because the photos are great. But we also can get answers to the kinds of decorating questions other books never seem to address. Finally, the book presents optional solutions for each common decorating question, so we can begin to see how we might actually decorate our own rooms. I highly recommend this book for anyone, like me, who is stuck in a builder beigs house or apartment and is yearning for some color. It's also a great guide if you're ready to buy some new carpeting or repaint your walls, because it tells you how to pull rooms (or your entire main floor) together.

Best Color Book Around

If you're looking for practical answers to common questions about color, this is the book for you. The author takes 10 questions that are very broad and represent almost universal issues for people interested in decorating. The book answers each question with specific advice that is extremely helpful. Even better, it offers multiple answers for each question so that you can choose which style appeals to you most or is the best fit for your overall decor. There are also over 200 pictures of rooms in varied styles and colors to help you visualize what you're reading about.The end result is a book with great information that is very flexible and useful. The authors present their ideas very clearly and concisely and have excellent design sense. This book gets my highest recommendation!

Excellent. Beautiful and helpful.

I just got my copy of this book a few days ago. We recently moved and I've been going a little crazy in trying to figure out how to put everything together. The first thing we need is color. No more white or beige! I got three color books and returned two. This was the only one I could find that read my mind. It's sort of built around questions that we all have and then it gives several answers to each one. Some other color books I looked at were pushing a particular style or "pallette" of colors instead of helping me figure out how to pull my home together. The first thing I'm working on with the help of this book is how to blend or contrast colors all through our big first floor. I'm learning how to think about where to stop and start various colors and I've already learned that all the color "schemes" in rooms on that floor don't have to match. This is a very helpful book that seems to start with what ordinary people need to know. It's also fun just to flip through because the photos are great.