Carolyn Warrender’s Book of Colour Scheming

by Carolyn Warrender (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $3.25

  An illustrated guide to understanding, choosing and using colour in your home. The colour spectrum is divided into seven groups, named after natural elements - earth, fire, air, water, wind and mineral (plus natural) - and helps the reader identify the colours which they are happy to live with. The book is divided into two main sections: Understanding colour , which explains the seven elements in terms of warm and cool tones, and how these colours affect us; and living with colour which contains photographs illustrating the choice of colour schemes for different rooms. With its practical approach and the use of colour photographs, this book should give its readers confidence in their decorating decisions. By helping them to choose the home furnishing colours which are right for them, it should enable everyone to become their own interior designer.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.25

  A fully-illustrated guide to understanding, choosing and using colour in your home, this book adapts the 'Colour Me Beautiful' approach and applies it to home furnishings. In Colour Scheming Carolyn Warrender divides the colour spectrum into seven groups, named after the natural elements -- Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Wind and Mineral (plus Natural) -- and helps the reader identify which colours they are happy to live with. The book is divided into 2 main sections: UNDERSTANDING COLOUR explains the seven elements and how colours affect us. It shows how to put colour schemes together that really work. LIVING WITH COLOUR illustrates the practical use of colour shown through photographs and colour artworks of stage-by-stage painting sequences and other techniques. With its practical approach and the use of inspirational colour photographs throughout Carolyn Warrender's Book of Colour Scheming will give readers confidence in their decorating decisions and enable everyone to become their own interior designer.