House Beautiful Colors For Your Home

Based on House Beautiful’s popular color column, a guide to setting the mood and adding a designer’s touch in any room with a simple coat of paint. This gorgeous primer showcases more than 450 colors selected by top interior designers who explain how and why they chose these particular paints—along with swatches complete with manufacturer, name, and number, to help you pick the perfect pigment. Exploring everything from bold saturated hues to more soothing shades and essential neutrals, the designers offer special insight into what makes color work and how it influences the different spaces. The insider advice, plus stunning images of inspiring rooms, will help you select the ideal colors you’ll enjoy for years.

Offers almost five hundred paint colors for interior design, featuring personal insights from top interior designers on their favorite hues.

What transforms a room from monotone to magical? Color! So, if you're nervous about splashing that white with bright, this primer will help. With special insider advice from top designers, plus a directory of actual paint swatches, this book is the most comprehensive and appealing color resource available today. All the colors are searchable by shade and by room, and every paint is accompanied by its manufacturer, name, and number, so you can match what you want right from the book. Noted designers with long and distinguished careers offer suggestions for every room and mood. They provide advice on which shades to start with and which to experiment with, the classic palettes they keep coming back to, and how the right colors can simply make us feel good.--From publisher description.

House Colors is the most comprehensive resource ever compiled on choosing exterior house colors. Sorted by architectural style, this format will allow the reader to pinpoint the colors that will best suit their style of home. It is the ultimate resource for those looking to achieve exceptional color combinations, from subtle to bold, that are so difficult to achieve without professional design assistance.

A complete guide to decorating with any shade of blue. Learn how to showcase blue throughout your home, and mix it with other colors and patterns.

House Beautiful’s follow-up to the popular Colors for Your Home A great book deserves an equally impressive sequel--and House Beautiful Fabrics for Your Home provides the perfect mix of practical information and inspiration for the home decorator. This conveniently portable primer will help novice and expert alike select and match the ideal fabrics for every room. Featuring advice from more than 60 top designers, along with actual swatches gathered by the editors of House Beautiful, it allows readers to select the fabrics that will add style and charm to their home. BOOK INCLUDES: - 24 mix-and-match fabric combinations, drawn from the well-received "Instant Room” columns that run each month in House Beautiful - 48 examples of fabrics blending harmoniously in beautiful rooms - Fabric swatches are identified by designer, distributor, name, color, and material--as well as by which other fabrics they’ll pair well with - A searchable index listing all fabrics by type: solids, florals, paisleys, prints, plaids, and more