1001 Ideas For Color & Paint

by Emma Callery

For a fresh collection of stylish color schemes, look no further than 1001 Ideas for Color & Paint. Featured ideas range from contemporary treatments to traditional looks, in everything from bold colors to pretty pastels. Readers will also find professional advice for choosing paint and color, descriptions of numerous popular paint techniques, and variations on color themes on a room-by-room basis presented in sketchbook-style illustrations. Over 1,000 color palettes, photographs, and illustrations provide inspiration and tips for success. With 1001 Ideas for Color & Paint readers can give every room in their home a brand new look.

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2006

Reviews

[Debbie Wentworth Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

1001 Ideas for Color and Paint offers the reader aid in determining how to put the colors together in your home in a variety of ways. Callery offers chapters on different styles of combinations, such as Mediterranean, Classic, Period and others. In each chapter she shows sample rooms and how the paint choices affect the perception of the room: makes a small room seem airy and larger, makes a room more or less formal, lends sophistication, makes it seem warmer or cooler, etc. Then she offers a photo of a room decorated in that chapter's style and drawings of how other color combinations change the atmosphere. Next, she shows color swatches that go together.

Toward the end of the book, she has chapters on painting, including faux finishes, and other techniques. Her final section is on what type of paint or wallpaper to choose and benefits and disadvantages of doing it yourself or hiring it done.

For my purposes, it is a useful, attractive and practical book. My only criticism is that I don't think the colors came through true. Sometimes Callery would comment on the blue wall and the red sofa, but the wall looked purple to me and the sofa orange, so the problem may have been my perception.

[Aimi Nadiah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. It guide us how to chose colour to our house

[Jacqui Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I checked this out from the library for my grandma to look at and help her pick some paint colors. This book is FANTASTIC! There are so many color swatches put together for this book. There's a section that tells you popular schemes for certain time periods. And this book has COLOR. This book is not shy on the color choices. Very helpful if you're struggling with design.

[A.K. Snyder · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the best for piecing together interesting color schemes that are both cohesive and unique.

[Christine Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

I need to remeber this book for the next time that I change our paint colors.

Subjects

House painting

Interior decoration

Color in interior decoration

[Jill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great book for trying to pick out color combinations