Discover dozens of imaginative ways to combine colors, creating schemes to suit every mood and every room. This inspiring guide will easily allow you to add character that reflects your individual taste and style to every room in your house.
Armed with the basics of color theory, you'll be ready to create a variety of painting techniques, including sponging, stippling, rag rolling, and dragging, creating a rainbow of effects -- all demonstrated in step-by-step detail. Full-size stencil patterns allow you to use your own inspiration, including ornamental effects that accentuate or complement distinctive features of a room.
By revealing all the potential uses of color in creating a decor, Decorating with Color helps you bring out the best in your home.
Date Published 10/1/2000
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Rated By: A reader
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Comments: excellent resource for faux! I have dozens of books on faux and color theory. This book is the best one. It combines both subjects. It covers the different faux techniques as well as how to apply color. The photos of finished rooms are great, and the photos of each step make learning very easy. Even though I am a professional decorative painter, I still am learning more from this book.
Rated By: Esther Schindler
From: Scottsdale, AZ
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Comments: Two books in one, neither especially effective Although it isn't immediately apparent from a flip through the book, Decorating With Color has two sections. The first, on applying color theory, is pretty good, and made me want to learn more. Ah, I thought. Now that I have the basics, the rest of the book will go into the subject in more depth.
But it didn't work that way. Instead of extending the initial overview (which covers the effects of different color palettes on decorating rooms), the second section switches into an introduction to faux finishes and how to apply them. That's very nice, but it it's no longer about decorating with color; it's now about decorating with paint.
More formally, the sections of the book include: A sense of color; the color palette; color effects in your home (which sounds like color theory but the first subhead is "quick paint effects"); color and style (primarily the use of stencils).
I took the book out the library, so I'm happy to have picked up the bit of wisdom this book had to impart. However, I suspect there are much better books out there to serve my initial impulse: to learn how to choose colors for my new home.
