Customer Reviews

Color Palettes: Atmospheric Interiors Using the Donald Kaufman Color Collection

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1 star:		(9)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

DK's color palatte is the best.

The reviewers who love this book must be looking at a different book than the one I received. Or maybe those reviews were written by the author's mother! This book is so dull and the color choices are so limited that I don't see how the book's contents begin to match the title. Color palettes? It's all variations on beigy colors-everything the subdivision builder put in our new home and everything we are now trying to get rid of. Atmospheric interiors? If you like the atmosphere of a brown grocery bag, then you might like this book. Give me COLOR, please, and not variations on a safe, dated beige scheme that my mother would like.

This book is a beautiful and practical guide to selecting a palette from Donald Kaufman's wonderful and luminous paint line. The previous reviewers' comments that the interiors are nothing but beige couldn't be further from the truth. Kaufman shows that walls painted deep red or apricot orange can actually read as a neutral -- which I guess to some people is the equivalent of "beige."

We got this book as a housewarming gift. I appreciated the thought but not the book. I moved into a "builder beige" house, and we're working to put color on the walls and in furniture and accessories little by little. You don't need a book to tell you how to decorate with the beige colors that this book promotes. I would be so depressed living with these "Donald Kauffman" colors.

I didn't know that this book was all about beige until I received my copy. Wish I'd read some of these reviews sooner.I want COLOR in my home. I also learned too late thath this person is simply selling his own paints and claims that you can't achieve what he is promoting, design wise, unless you buy his expensive paint. I feel as if I paid good money for a commercial! This book is a waste.

This is the most unhelpful book on color I've ever wasted money on. It did not help me come up with my own "atmospheric" palette, as I had hoped it would. I agree with the other reviewer who said the book is fine if all you want is variations of beige. If you want COLOR, then do NOT buy this book.

This is a fine book IF YOU LIKE BEIGE and variations thereof. If you want color in your home, then this is NOT the book for you.