- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Clarkson Potter (Mar 17 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 060960144X
- ISBN-13: 978-0609601440
- Product Dimensions: 22.5 x 1.9 x 26.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #430,320 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
Product Details |
Product Description
From Amazon
Even if you know what your favorite colors are, you may be unsure about covering your living space with them. Yet with the right approach, colors can greatly enhance--even create--the visual and emotional appeal of any room. Properly chosen, color can make a smaller room seem larger, a cavernous space seem cozy; it can add structure or introduce simplicity. Drawing on a palette of 26 full-spectrum colors, this book demystifies color properties, explaining how to plan a palette that will work wonders throughout a home. Learn how intensity, light and shadow, background tones, contrast, and architectural details all play a part in a successful color scheme. Find the colors for your walls, doors, and trim that will make everything in the room come alive. By adapting ideas from this beautifully photographed book, you can create an interior you love, enlivened with the colors that are both right for the space and for your own personal style. --Amy Handy
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Real color for real life,
By Ron (Irvine, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Color Palettes: Atmospheric Interiors Using the Donald Kaufman Color Collection (Hardcover)
This book is very good for those that realize normal colors exist. I can't decorate a home like a magazine because I live on earth. Color Palettes helps provide information on how to paint and decorate a home for those that can't afford $25k a room for bright reds and blues. It provides excellent suggestions and pictures for basic colors. I am very satisfied and highly recommend Color Palettes.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Colors that aren't boring but are livable,
By Jill S. "author" (Larchmont, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Color Palettes: Atmospheric Interiors Using the Donald Kaufman Color Collection (Hardcover)
The person who wrote the review saying she was trying to get away from builder beige may not understand what these colors look like in person. They are anything but typical and boring. Donald Kaufman understands how mix colors with enough depth and luminosity that a neutral feels beautiful and not blah. I think Suzanne Butterfield's book is prettier and explains his precepts even better than his own books. I have a DKC blue in my living room and a DKC green in my dining room and I love them. The paint companies would like you to think that you should try bolder colors, but they're hard to choose and they're not all beautiful colors you'd want to live with. The DKC (and also Martha Stewart) palettes are limited for a reason. Not every color out there will look good up on your walls.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Sadly old looking,
By A Customer
This review is from: Color Palettes: Atmospheric Interiors Using the Donald Kaufman Color Collection (Hardcover)
This book is old looking and is not giving me the inspiration and help I was looking for. I'm trying to get away from my "builder beige" house so the idea of "atmospheric interiors" sounded great. Unfortunately, this author seems to think that "atmospheric interiors" ARE beige or variations thereof. Depressing, dated.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Want to see more reviews on this item?
|
Most recent customer reviews |
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Building Types & Styles > Residential
- Books > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Interior Design
- Books > Home & Garden > Crafts & Hobbies
- Books > Home & Garden > How-to & Home Improvements > Decorating > Interior Design
- Books > Home & Garden > How-to & Home Improvements > Decorating > Painting & Wallpapering
- Books > Home & Garden > Interior Design > Decoration & Ornament
- Books > Home & Garden > Interior Design > Style
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Architecture
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Humanities > Architecture
- Books > Professional & Technical > Architecture > Building Types & Styles > Residential
- Books > Professional & Technical > Architecture > Interior Design
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
