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Summary: Blends style and practicality
Review: Finally. I found a decorating book on color that blends style and practical advice. I like the Q&A approach, and there is more than one answer to every question, which is a unique feature in my opinion. The book has gorgeous pictures but real life advice also. It's an idea book I like flipping through but it solves problems too. The examples must be from real homes and I like that aspect. Highly recommend this one for people who want to put more color into their houses.
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Summary: Blends style and practicality
Review: Finally. I found a decorating book on color that blends style and practical advice. I like the Q&A approach, and there is more than one answer to every question, which is a unique feature in my opinion. The book has gorgeous pictures but real life advice also. It's an idea book I like flipping through but it solves problems too. The examples must be from real homes and I like that aspect. Highly recommend this one for people who want to put more color into their houses.
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Summary: Finally!
Review: I grabbed this at the bookstore as soon as I saw it over the weekend. This practical book seems to be talking to me personally about decorating. It's like the author read my mind. It's a kind of Q&A book, and the realistic questions are so typical of the problems or questions my friends and I have had in decorating our houses. This isn't about color theory or one person's philosophy of color. It simply covers everyday questions that ordinary people like me have when we try to put our homes together. Love the beautiful photos. It looks like they are showing real homes. I don't like the gimmicky graphic design too much, but that's a minor thing.
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Summary: Excellent. Beautiful and helpful.
Review: 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.
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Summary: This book is very helpful and beautiful to look at.
Review: 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.
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Summary: Full of ideas and answers
Review: 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!
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Summary: Best Color Book Around
Review: 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!
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Summary: Highly recommend
Review: This book is answering all the color questions I have now, and I know I'll use it again and again in the future. A friend told me about the book, so I bought my own copy. It's excellent. It talks about decorating with color from my point of view. It start with problems regular people have when they decorate their homes (instead of starting from the point of view of a designer who is selling one point of view or someone who is selling a line of paint). The book is organized around the kinds of questions that my friends and I ask each other all the time. This is a refreshing point of view and a really helpful one. No hype but just good information and lots of great color photos showing optional solutions to each question.
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Summary: This book is very helpful and beautiful to look at.
Review: This book is refreshingly helpful and "to the point." I found the question-and-answer format wonderful because the questions mirrored my own. It's obvious that the author researched what people like me need when it comes to color advice, and I love the fact that alternative answers to the same question are put into the book. This book is uniquely practical and yet it is full of great pictures too so I like just flipping through the book to get ideas.
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Summary: Not bad, but not terribly helpful for me
Review: This is a really helpful book. It's gorgeous to look at also. I have bought many decorating books in the last few years, and most of them are a disappointment but this color book is wonderful. I'm getting idea after idea from the book. I really like the setup they used of having questions and then more than one answer or solution. Multiple ideas or solutions helps me work out my own decorating plans. This is a book I keep going back to. It's worth more than www.amazon.com charges for it in my opinion. Uniquely helpful.
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