Perfect Palettes for Painting Rooms: Plus Complete Decorating Guidelines

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Summary: Great Gift
Review: A friend gave me this book as a housewarming gift. It's just great! I've purchased five to give as Christmas presents.

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Summary: This book empowered me to take greater risks with color
Review: Anyone who looks at this book will see immediately how beautiful it is. But, for me, this book is much more. I feel that it elevates this genre of book to a new level. The rooms, the paint colors, the text and engaging quotes are a pleasure to the senses. It is clearly well designed and the color is exceptional. But even more importantly, this book empowered me to take greater risks with color. I do not see myself as a particularly creative person. Fear of choosing the wrong paint colors has been enough to keep me from incorporating my favorite colors into my home. I see fantastic color in friends homes and wish that my own home looked as interesting with the use of color. Reading and looking through this book gave me a heightened sense of my own color preferences and even my own sense of creativity. I have taken the leap into the world of color and am deeply satisfied with the results in my home and within myself. Without sounding too corny, I believe that this book changed me. I grew as a person and have acquired a new appreciation for what color has brought to my life.

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Summary: From Pathetic to Perfect
Review: Bonnie Krims has the eye of a fine artist and the writing ability of a gifted writer. Moreover, she has a practical and sensible approach to decorating that is highly user-friendly. Thus,her book is not only beautiful to behold and engaging to read, but also enormously helpful to those of us who lack a flair for decorating. With the help of this book, my husband and I took our seaside home from a pallid and unexciting place to eat and sleep, to a vivid and fun home to live in. We can't recommend this book highly enough. It is a true winner!!!

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Summary: Very Bold Color Palette
Review: I am one of those people who had all white walls in their home until I met Bonnie Krims and the Perfect Palette for Painting Rooms. This book is a must for those of us who get frozen at the idea of committing to a single color for a room and trying out different decorating ideas. I've already transformed rooms in my home and the results are nothing short of spectacular.

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Summary: Great book!
Review: I am one of those people who had all white walls in their home until I met Bonnie Krims and the Perfect Palette for Painting Rooms. This book is a must for those of us who get frozen at the idea of committing to a single color for a room and trying out different decorating ideas. I've already transformed rooms in my home and the results are nothing short of spectacular.

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Summary: Brilliant Book!
Review: I am one of those people who love home decorating, design magazines, TV shows and books. I always seem to get more helpful information and ideas from the magazines than I do from the books that I've read. But then I read this book.
This book is not just georgous photographs, but it is actually is packed with very practical content that I have been able to use with huge success. I feel like I can confidentely choose paint colors and put together a room. My rooms look amazing and I am very gratified. The colors feel very rich, and are not old fashioned or boring. While reading the book, I was constantly having "ahaa" experiences. I felt empowered to go for it. I felt like, "Now I get it. I can do this". I tend to be very picky about decorating. I don't want any loose ends, or lingering doubts about how I decorated a room, or whether the paint color is right or not. Using this book allowed me to feel as if I had "nailed it" in every room that I redid. I love it and recommend it highly! I bought five copies and have already given all away to friends who have bought houses or moved recently...

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Summary: THIS BOOK GIVES OUT THE COLOR NUMBERS!
Review: I have looked at a lot of home decorating books for help with my paint colors. Many have lovely photographs, but not a one of them gives you the paint color numbers that you see on the walls of the photographed rooms, EXCEPT THIS ONE. I couldn't believe it. I was still nervous going into the paint phase, not knowing whether the colors would look as good on my walls as they do in the book. Well, let me tell you, they look even better! I am as pleased as punch. If you don't want to look through paint chips, try this book.


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Summary: Very Bold Color Palette
Review: I just returned this book because I thought the colors were too bold, garish in some cases. For example, imagine a combination of black, salmon pink, and pistachio green. If you are daring this book could work for you. But if you are an all-white-wall person like me, just branching out, I think you better pick another book.

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Summary: THEY DON'T CALL IT PERFECT FOR NOTHING
Review: I was fortunate to have a color consultation in my home with the author of this book. Of all her books, this is by far my favorite. There are so many exciting and beautiful paint color choices for your home, and the paint numbers are in the book so there is no guesswork. I bought five copies to give to friends and family as gifts. The photographs and quality of color repreduction is fantastic. They don't call it "Perfect" for nothing.

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Summary: Helpful Book!
Review: My wife and I found this book very helpful in choosing colors for our house. We didn't go with any of the combinations in the book, but we were able to pick the color for the house and then came up with our own trim color. The book helped to clarify the process and inspired us to make the right choices.