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Summary: rkorb15
Review: A good book if you can accept its limitations. It has wonderful color combinations, but they are limited to foor rooms: living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens. It is spiral bound and each of three sections can be adjusted separately: floors, wall paints, and ceiling paint colors. Unfortunatley, the pages are printed on both sides, so sometimes it is impossible to get the color combinations you want. The pictures of the rooms are limited: all the furniture is examptly the same (e.g. all gray bath tubs and all birch kitchen cabinets.) It might be stretching most people's imaginations to pair a pale yellow kitchen with a purple ceiling! But the colors are beautifully and truthfully reproduced and the color combinations in the Color Key are wonderful!
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Summary: rkorb15
Review: A good book if you can accept its limitations. It has wonderful color combinations, but they are limited to foor rooms: living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens. It is spiral bound and each of three sections can be adjusted separately: floors, wall paints, and ceiling paint colors. Unfortunatley, the pages are printed on both sides, so sometimes it is impossible to get the color combinations you want. The pictures of the rooms are limited: all the furniture is examptly the same (e.g. all gray bath tubs and all birch kitchen cabinets.) It might be stretching most people's imaginations to pair a pale yellow kitchen with a purple ceiling! But the colors are beautifully and truthfully reproduced and the color combinations in the Color Key are wonderful!
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Summary: VISUAL, not content
Review: As others have said, this book has almost zero how-to content. It is delightful to the eyes, however, especially for Marguerita lovers and Jimmy Buffet fans. ("Don't worry, be happy.")It presents a lot of color combinations for those tired of off-white and beige, but too timid to make a change without reassurance. I agree that the colors are in the Carribean style, so the colors would be good for summer decorating or a decidely feminine style. With this book, I found it easier to show my husband color combinations I liked and get his response very quickly (he even surprized me!).
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Summary: VISUAL, not content
Review: As others have said, this book has almost zero how-to content. It is delightful to the eyes, however, especially for Marguerita lovers and Jimmy Buffet fans. ("Don't worry, be happy.") It presents a lot of color combinations for those tired of off-white and beige, but too timid to make a change without reassurance. I agree that the colors are in the Carribean style, so the colors would be good for summer decorating or a decidely feminine style. With this book, I found it easier to show my husband color combinations I liked and get his response very quickly (he even surprized me!).
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Summary: VISUAL, not content
Review: As others have said, this book has almost zero how-to content. It is delightful to the eyes, however, especially for Marguerita lovers and Jimmy Buffet fans. ("Don't worry, be happy.") It presents a lot of color combinations for those tired of off-white and beige, but too timid to make a change without reassurance. I agree that the colors are in the Carribean style, so the colors would be good for summer decorating or a decidely feminine style. With this book, I found it easier to show my husband color combinations I liked and get his response very quickly (he even surprized me!).
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Summary: Good starting point
Review: I agree with other reviewers that this book is not high on content - BUT it is a good starting point for those wishing to add some elements of color to their lives. You can get this book in Pottery Barn (& such) so this should give you an idea of the content. I think it is worth a few bucks as a jumping off point for some color ideas. And why not rearrange the pages yourself - it makes it a little more useful!
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Summary: GOOD, QUICK IDEAS OF HOW COLOR IMPACTS A ROOM
Review: I think this book is great for decorating novices like myself. As a color-deprived, white-walled apartment dweller on the verge of buying a condo, I'm glad to have a tool to help myself decide what I love and what I hate. The only possible drawback I've noticed about the color palate is that it has a decidedly "Caribbean" flavor--neutrals combined with tangerines, aquas, fuscias, parrot greens, etc. Maybe that's a good thing--I would have never looked at cherry as a real wall color if I hadn't seen it in this book. Opens your creativity! Good for scaredy-cats! Cheap way to avoid an expensive mistake! Fun!
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Summary: Not for the "classic-minded" decorator
Review: Lime-green or tangerine-colored walls are not my idea of beauty. Yes, there's a lot of color combinations that you can choose from, but you'll have to remove every single strip in order to see what most of them will look like together. Otherwise, you're limited to the color combinations that have already been put together for you. Will be returning this one.
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Summary: The Color Book is not likely to be helpful.
Review: The Color Book claims to have 11,264 color combinations for your home. I don't know how the publisher did the math, but you'll never squeeze more than a couple hundred combinations from this book. That may still sound like a lot, but it isn't. For each room, you get maybe 20 color combinations, and that's if you tear or cut out the pictures and assemble your own pictures from the snippets, which is what you'd have to do if you want to get any use out of this book. For a color, it gives at most three shades, which is far from adequate, since every brand of paint has at least 30 shades of any color, and using a different shade can give a totally different look.
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Summary: Interesting but not too color accurate
Review: The concept of this book is very cool, and the execution is good. A lot of people who might otherwise stick to off white should enjoy this book. However, the color changes were not accurate; I am a designer and work with color and with Photoshop- which I'm pretty sure is what they used to create the color changes. Some of the colors- particularly the shadows- just don't work that way in real life. It's just a little too artificial for me.
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