The Home Decorator's Colour and Texture Sourcebook: 180 Schemes for the Home

The Home Decorator's Colour and Texture Sourcebook: 180 Schemes for the Home

by Adrienne Chinn (Author)

Synopsis

Colour can dramatically alter the look and feel of a room, but interior surfaces also have an enormous impact on a space. This unique book features 200 failsafe recipes for combining colour and texture in the home, to ensure that the scheme you choose will work with more permanent, expensive and hard-to-change features. Carefully selected palettes include paint colours and accents, fabrics for furnishings and drapes, and suitable surface colours, textures and materials. Large swatch photographs clearly show how walls, floors and furnishings will work together to create a coherent scheme. Discover how to enliven a room with a dark wooden floor, create a rustic theme to complement natural state or bring a feeling of comfort and warmth to cool marble. Whether you want to enhance the existing features within your home or are filling a room out from scratch, this is an invaluable practical resource.

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More Information

Format: Spiral-bound
Pages: 256
Publisher: Apple Press
Published: 01 Oct 2007

ISBN 10: 1845432207
ISBN 13: 9781845432201

Media Reviews
Designed for young users... a good visual dictionary has a place on the ready-reference shelf.
[Chinn's] multitude of combinations are sure to inspir -- Karen Turner, CanWest News Service The Calgary Herald (12/22/2007)
Chinn's easy-to-use [and] practical manual will help homeowners pull together every room.... There are also tons of tips. -- Cecily Ross The Globe and Mail (Metro Ed) (12/22/2007)
The page layout ... allows for easy access to the ideas. ... Recommended for public libraries. -- Gayle Williamson, Interior Design Library Journal (01/01/2008)
Decorating ideas that will floor you. -- McClatchy Newspapers syndicate The Telegraph (Macon, GA) (02/14/2008)
A guide to selecting those decorative pieces, which are simple to use and install. -- Martha Phifer Times Union (Albany) (09/28/2008)
[It] is a compact handbook with instructions and adbvice on working with color. -- Tribune wire services/McClatchey newspapers Chicago Tribune-City, The Telegraph (Macon), (03/20/2008)
Who wouldn't like to have an interior designer pick out the colors, fabrics and flooring for your rooms? -- Tribune wire services Chicago Tribune-city; The Times (Munster, IN) (01/24/2008)
The book's most practical application will be to inspire fresh color combinations with the upholstery and flooring you already have. -- wire story The Virginian Pilot (02/28/2008)