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House Beautiful Colors for Your Home: 300 Designer Favorites (House Beautiful Series)

Creator: The Editors of House Beautiful Magazine
Publisher: Hearst
Category: Book

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Format: Illustrated
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 5.3 x 0.9

ISBN: 1588167399
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.94
EAN: 9781588167392
ASIN: 1588167399

Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
What transforms a room from monotone to magical? Color! So, if youre nervous about splashing that white with bright, this conveniently portable primer based on House Beautifuls most popular column will help. With special insider advice from top designers, plus a directory of actual paint swatches, this book is the most comprehensive and appealing color resource available today. All the colors are searchable by shade and by room, and every paint is accompanied by its manufacturer, name, and number, so you can match what you want right from the book. The guides unique format makes everything easy. Noted designers with long and distinguished careers offer suggestions for every room and mood. They provide advice on which shades to start with and which to experiment with, the classic palettes they keep coming back to, and how the right colors can simply make us feel good. Gorgeous room shotssuch as Paula Perlinis delphinium blue bedroom and Amanda Keysers merlot red wallsare accompanied by the exact brands of paint and their swatches, so you can examine the colors closely.

Customer Reviews:

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could have used more colors November 9, 2009
Margaret Heine
I wasn't completly thrilled with this book but I cant completly complain about it either. It gave me alot of insight about what colors you should just with what rooms, and how different lights make colors look different. But they claim you will find the color you've been looking for in this book (which is why I bought it) and I did not, but it did give me what colors to look for.

5 out of 5 stars

Great paint Ideas November 4, 2009
Jane Kummel
If your thinking of painting this book is great. Confused about whites it goes into details, brands etc. Shows compatible colors. Buy it!

4 out of 5 stars

Inspiring! November 3, 2009
Deborah Chester (Norman, OK)
One of my favorite features in HOUSE BEAUTIFUL magazine is its monthly column on paint colors. Granted, the interior designers wax so eloquent about some of these colors that you can't help but be disappointed when you see the actual paint chip and think, that's blue? But it looks gray!

The point is, of course, that paint is totally subjective and relative to where you're trying to put it. Everything depends on the light that comes into the room and how it changes during the day. I've read some of the other reviews that complained about how a few of the real paint chips don't match the colors in the book. So what? There are limits to photography, and one of the first things to know about choosing a paint color is that you must test it in your own house, in the room you intend to paint. A photo may or may not be true to color hue. And light varies from region to region and from house to house.

Recently a friend of mine added on a new, upstairs room to her house. She painted it the most luscious, buttery yellow tint -- Sherwin-Williams "Gardenia." Inspired, I went to the store where she bought the paint and picked up a chip. To my astonishment, "Gardenia" turned out to be peach, not soft, creamy yellow. And in my house it looked horrid, nothing at all like the result she'd achieved.

Although I've been living with my builder-grade beige walls for the past six years in complete dislike, I'm still too chicken to choose color schemes for the house. So instead, I explore my inner decorator through this book's enchanting little essays on color. The small format makes the book easy to carry about. The organization is loose enough that you can dive into it anywhere, in no particular order. I don't think it's intended to be strict decorating advice for what to do with your own rooms; instead, it's simply fun and inspiring. It makes me consider color combinations that I might never otherwise examine on my own. And one day, I hope I'll be brave enough to make a decision and actually paint my walls.

My only disappointments with the book are these: too short, because I'm always greedy for more essays, and not enough photos of rooms painted in some of the color schemes.

1 out of 5 stars

Off-color Printing of Dated Decks October 14, 2009
rlhouseh (Riverton, UT)
Even the verbal descriptions don't quite match up with the way that many colors appear in the book. I understand that there's a chance of this happening with a book, so I turned to my local Sherwin Williams store and purchased two color decks. Many, many of the colors in this book come from Sherwin Williams, but not a single one of the colors I like is in the color deck anymore. How helpful is that? :(

1 out of 5 stars

colors way way off August 31, 2009
renoir (Boston, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have never written a review but felt I had to this time. I really had my hopes up about this book and am sorely disappointed
I absolutely agree with the post titled "repainting again" I bought the book because I love the House Beautiful color feature. The color representation is so far off in this book I can't believe it, and this supposed to be a book about color!
I have a room with woodwork painted "String" by farrow and Ball...The color chip in this book is nothing like it at all...I hope no one actually buys paint based on this book!!

I know that people in the field have written in about how you can't trust chips and I am well aware of that, but this book doesn't even come within the ballpark on many of these colors. The magazine represents the same colors quite nicely on the printed page..so it CAN be done.

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