The home decorator's color & texture bible 180 complete schemes for a harmonious home

Adrienne Chinn

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Published
Buffalo, N.Y. ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books 2007.
Language
English
Main Author
Adrienne Chinn (-)
Physical Description
256 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9781554073153
  • Introduction
  • Using Color and Texture
  • The color wheel
  • Harmonious schemes
  • Complementary or contrasting schemes
  • Split complementary schemes
  • Monochromatic schemes
  • Accent colors
  • Neutral schemes
  • Cool schemes
  • Warm schemes
  • Vibrant schemes
  • Texture and pattern
  • Section 1. Naturals
  • White Floors
  • 8 schemes
  • Cream and Beige Floors
  • 16 schemes
  • Ocher Floors
  • 8 schemes
  • Terra-cotta Floors
  • 16 schemes
  • Green Floors
  • 8 schemes
  • Light Brown Floors
  • 16 schemes
  • Mid-Brown Floors
  • 8 schemes
  • Dark Brown Floors
  • 16 schemes
  • Gray and Black Floors
  • 16 schemes
  • Section 2. Hues
  • Red Floors
  • 12 schemes
  • Orange Floors
  • 12 schemes
  • Yellow Floors
  • 12 schemes
  • Green Floors
  • 12 schemes
  • Blue Floors
  • 12 schemes
  • Purple Floors
  • 12 schemes
  • Suppliers
  • Source List
  • Index
  • Credits
Review by Library Journal Review

Choosing the appropriate color palette to enliven a home's decor can be a daunting task for an amateur, but these two books will make the challenge easier. Interior designer Chinn supplies some 180 color schemes, each with swatches of color, fabric, and flooring. The page layout, with fabric swatches along the page fore edges, allows for easy access to the ideas. Unfortunately, only a few photographs show how color, fabric, and flooring are used in an entire room. However, interior designer Strangis includes a multitude of photographs depicting various rooms with captions that clearly point out how to combine the elements into a pleasing decor. Interspersed throughout are full-page photographs of a room, which are accompanied on the facing page with color and fabric swatches that show in better detail how to create a look. Both books are recommended for public libraries. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

(c) Copyright Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Introduction You've just unlocked the front door to your brand new condo, walked into the terra-cotta-tiled hallway, across the oak plank living room floor and into the kitchen where, with a huge sigh of relief, you set the box of dishes down onto the faux limestone ceramic floor. Your new home has been painted pristine white throughout, and sisal-effect wool carpet has been laid in all the bedrooms. The bathrooms are tastefully neutral with white fixtures and stone-effect vinyl tiles on the floor. Congratulations! You have a blank canvas upon which to stamp your own personal style. But where do you start? Or you've just bought an older home. The hallway has a black and white tile floor laid on the diagonal. A mint green carpet decorates the living room. The kitchen has been given another jolt of color with a bright blue rubber floor. Upstairs the bedrooms reflect the personalities of the previous occupants -- pink shag-pile carpet in 10-year-old Lisa's bedroom, walnut-effect vinyl in sporty teenager Matthew's room and lilac velvet-pile carpet in 16-year-old Lori's room. The parents, in a burst of East meets West enthusiasm, have gone tastefully neutral with taupe carpet in their master bedroom. Pulling up all the flooring just isn't an option, what with the college fund, the car loan and the new mortgage, but you're just not sure how to decorate your new home to your own taste. What do you do? This book will guide you through the sometimes daunting task of decorating your home. Whether you live in a newly built condo, a 1950s ranch-style bungalow or a Victorian townhouse, the starting point is often flooring. This book features more than 180 decorating schemes, incorporating paint colors and fabrics in neutral, cool, warm and vibrant tones. The schemes are inspired by a wide range of flooring, from natural materials like stone, wood, linoleum, sisal and wool carpet through colorful man-made products like rubber, vinyl, poured concrete and resin. So whether you prefer contemporary neutrals or country color, you'll find a scheme here to suit you and your home. Excerpted from The Home Decorator's Color and Texture Bible: 180 Complete Schemes for a Harmonious Home by Adrienne Chinn All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.