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Decorating With Color - Inspired Ideas for Your Home
Decorating With Color Inspired Ideas for Your Home Author:Country Home & Gardens Decorating With Color, third in a series of decorating books created exclusively for our members, offers a brilliantly varied palette of ideas and techniques for enhancing a home's decor, lending warmth to uninspired spaces and liveliness to dull ones. The book illustrates dozens of imaginative ways to combine colors, creating schemes to suit ev... more »ery mood and every room, from nursery to bath. See how color combinations can harmonize with particular space and light conditions, and how the calculated use of contrasting colors can add character and interest to a room. Each primary color has its own personality, which you can use to reflect your mood, taste, and style. Once armed with the basics of color theory, you will be ready to experiment with all manner of painting techniques, including sponging, stippling, rag rolling, and dragging, creating a rainbow of effects, all demonstrated in step-by-step detail. Included with the book is a set of five acetate stencil forms to use in projects presented within the text or based on your own inspiration, including ornamental effects that accentuate or complement distinctive features in a room. By revealing all the potential uses of color in creating a decor 'Decorating With Color' makes it possible to bring out the best in your home.« less