- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd; New edition edition (2 Mar 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1844004406
- ISBN-13: 978-1844004409
- Product Dimensions: 26.8 x 21.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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An inspirational book which will make you want to reach for the paintbrush --Home Beautiful
A unique colour manual. The decorator's ultimate resource. --Publishing News
A unique colour manual. The decorator's ultimate resource. --Publishing News
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Choosing the right colour for your home can be fraught with difficulties, and with literally thousands of shades of paint available in DIY stores the choice can be overwhelming. With this book, Kevin McCloud has taken the hard work out of home decorating by researching, selecting and combining over 750 colours into more than 60 tried-and-tested palettes that will transform your home. Stunningly well produced and printed in six colours for astonishing accuracy, each palette provides a blueprint for a decorative scheme that you can transfer to your own home confident in the knowledge that they have been sourced by a renowned authority on colour with a brilliant visual eye. Taken from a wide variety of sources - historical, regional and cultural - each palette is made up of a collection of 3-16 colour swatches and features a photograph demonstrating how the colours can be used in period or contemporary settings. With hints and tips on how best and in what situation to use each colour, the swatches are individually matched to a commercially available paint so that you effortlessly achieve each look.
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Warning: this book can become addictive. I've just been renovating a whole house and I spent so much time with my head in this book, friends started to tease me. It's beautiful, but it's also thoughtful and brilliantly creative. I can't believe some reviewers on here don't find it useful. McCloud covers so much, from every shade of each colour to period colours (like the 1930s palettes I ended up using) to colours for beach homes or cold climates or loft style apartments. In short, there is a wealth of knowledge in this book and it's written with the passion one has come to expect from McCloud. To those who find this book hard to use, what do you want Kevin to do, come round your house and choose the colours for you? Be creative, pick what you like and experiment. That's the whole idea of the book! I did and I've ended up using colour in a way that I never thought possible.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I love color in interior design but have never been a whiz at deciding whether this exact blue in conjunction with that exact red will give me this exact effect. McCloud's book ingeniously solves my problem by presenting beautifully simple double-page spreads dedicated each to a particular color scheme with explanation. There are sophisticated schemes based on variations on a single color, well-researched and amusingly explained period palettes, palettes for northern or southern exposures, neutral palettes, vibrant palettes, and probably some I'm forgetting. Possibilities range from pale eggshell sophistication to primary blue on red modern shock. Throughout, McCloud educates the reader about the history of color and its effect on the emotion, always with a light touch and never dipping into dullness. The color reproduction, as you'd expect, is perfect.
33 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a superb book.
I am an amateur who's tried to use colour in my home but with disappointing results. I love colour and, over the years, I've looked at many books on interior design and on colour. There are a few good books for painters and graphic designers (Itten's Elements of Color, Color Star and Art of Color) but I've never before seen such a sophisticated but at the same time (elegantly) simple book that goes well beyond the basic colour charts and in a very usable way. I can't wait to try one of the suggested combinations.
I wish Kevin McCloud (whom I've watched in many Grand Designs programmes since we've always wanted to have our own home built but a) can't face the torture involved and b) can't find the land near London) would do something at a similar level of quality for lighting (his 1995 book is out of print).
P.S. In 2009 his new book "Colour Now" was published and he again puts together various palettes that create different moods and effects, explaining as he goes. Lovely.
I am an amateur who's tried to use colour in my home but with disappointing results. I love colour and, over the years, I've looked at many books on interior design and on colour. There are a few good books for painters and graphic designers (Itten's Elements of Color, Color Star and Art of Color) but I've never before seen such a sophisticated but at the same time (elegantly) simple book that goes well beyond the basic colour charts and in a very usable way. I can't wait to try one of the suggested combinations.
I wish Kevin McCloud (whom I've watched in many Grand Designs programmes since we've always wanted to have our own home built but a) can't face the torture involved and b) can't find the land near London) would do something at a similar level of quality for lighting (his 1995 book is out of print).
P.S. In 2009 his new book "Colour Now" was published and he again puts together various palettes that create different moods and effects, explaining as he goes. Lovely.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
My copy went missing so had to get another...this book is great
I have found this book absolutely riveting. I am not so much into interior design I guess, so much as I am very interested in living spaces, light and how we interact with our home... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Jane
Renata
I love Kevin McCloud and this book has all the colors you can possibly think of. Also the pallets are great and the interiors too.
Published 10 months ago by Renata
Useful and inspiring
Having just moved to a new house where all the walls are either white or extremely vibrant, I wanted a book that would guide me through how to use colour in a more 'intelligent'... Read more
Published 20 months ago by clare
Just to let you know the website isn'tavailable
I bought this along with Colour Now and love them both for different reasons. I think when this was first published one could link directly to a paint website to allow you to find... Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2009 by Lovemi Diy
What a great book!
After having taken this book out of our local library about half a dozen times we decided to buy our own copy, and are so glad we did. Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2009 by E. Edwards
Help me visualize a more daring and efficient colour combinations.
I'm in the process of openning a new store. This book was an excellent guide to design my logo, shop color scheme plus business colour ID. Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2009 by Simone Lavie
Recomended
Well put together. An interesting read as well as a useful reference in helping with colour choice.
Published on 20 April 2006 by PAB
Very pretty.. and pretty useless
This book is a very pretty book. It has lots of nice colours and pictures. But it is very hard to use & I don't feel I've learned much about how to use colour! Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2005 by Tracy
Too cool
Great if you have a house like some of the exotic examples in this book. Not so good if you don't. A little bit too cool for its own good I did not find this to be very user... Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2005
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