"Add a designer's touch to your home. Choosing colors for your home is a breeze! This pocket-sized guide showcases more than 450 colors that professional interior designers selected for their spaces..."--Back cover.
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.
This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.
No decorating tool has come into its own in recent years more strongly than paint. Always the simplest, least expensive way to change the look of a room - today, thanks to the availability of thousands of colors and finishes, painting is one of the most complex as well, bringing color, texture, and pattern to every kind of surface. 'House Beautiful Paint', a new volume from the editors of House Beautiful magazine in their Great Style series, explores all the decorating possibilities that paint offers. More than 120 color photographs illustrate the wonderful ways in which it can be used to strike a mood, manipulate space, fool the eye, surprise and delight, transforming walls, floors, ceilings, furniture - even the smallest accessories. Advice from decorators and homeowners alike serves as a guide to choosing tones and finishes, incorporating techniques such as sponging, ragging, stenciling, and trompe l'oeil, and using paint as a backdrop for artwork or to create the effect of carpeting or wallpaper. An illustrated glossary explains the most commonly used paint terms to take the mystery out of this rich, and readily accessible, design resource.
No decorating tool has come into its own in recent years more strongly than paint. Always the simplest, least expensive way to change the look of a room -- today, thanks to the availability of thousands of colors & finishes, painting is one of the most complex as well, bringing color, texture, & pattern to every kind of surface. House Beautiful Paint, a new volume from the editors of House Beautiful magazine in their Great Style series, explores all the decorating possibilities that paint offers. More than 120 color photographs illustrate the wonderful ways in which it can be used to strike a mood, manipulate space, fool the eye, surprise & delight, transforming walls, floors, ceilings, furniture -- even the smallest accessories. Advice from decorators & homeowners alike serves as a guide to choosing tones & finishes, incorporating techniques such as sponging, ragging, stenciling, & trompe l'oeil, & using paint as a backdrop for artwork or to create the effect of carpeting or wallpaper. An illustrated glossary explains the most commonly used paint terms to take the mystery out of this rich, & readily accessible, design resource.