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Color Pattern Texture: The Foundation to Make Your Home Your Own
Vern Yip, interior designer and television star, is ready to break down the fundamental interior design elements to help you create your dream space. This interior design book delivers clear and actionable advice that illustrates for readers how to work with the foundational building blocks of interior color, pattern, and texture. In the first part of the book, sections on each of these three elements explains the nuances and specific capabilities of each and delivers easy take-aways to can applied to any living space. The second part of the book helps readers apply these three design aspects throughout the home, through beautiful photography, case studies, and step-by-steps, helping every reader discover their own "home personality" that reflects who they are and how they live.
- GenresNonfiction
272 pages, Hardcover
Published October 14, 2025
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May 31, 2026
Lots of very practical, tangible advice in this, like specific recommendations for materials, as well as higher level guidance, like leaning on specific memories for inspiration.
It's divided into sections on color, texture and paint, then mini case studies showing how those were combined in real spaces, and finishes with full home tours of five different homes. There's a double page spread of common colors, which is echoed at the end of the book with names for each color in several common paint brands. Likewise, there's a spread of common textures and patterns with design notes. It concludes with a couple pages of tips, condensed, along with page numbers where you can go look up more advice.
The designer's style is too polished / formal / hotel-y for my taste, but the explanations and advice were interesting. This is very thoughtfully put together.
It's divided into sections on color, texture and paint, then mini case studies showing how those were combined in real spaces, and finishes with full home tours of five different homes. There's a double page spread of common colors, which is echoed at the end of the book with names for each color in several common paint brands. Likewise, there's a spread of common textures and patterns with design notes. It concludes with a couple pages of tips, condensed, along with page numbers where you can go look up more advice.
The designer's style is too polished / formal / hotel-y for my taste, but the explanations and advice were interesting. This is very thoughtfully put together.
January 11, 2026
I loved his designs on Trading Spaces and the information in this book is great but his actual designs are...not to my taste. In fact, the picture representing "Children's Spaces" i thought was either AI generated or a joke.
March 30, 2026
Great info for new home designers. Love his advice and comments. He has a distinct design style which is not to my taste. However the kitchen in his beach home is amazing. Recommend for his fans.
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