Choosing Colours

by Kevin McCloud

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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 on two different paper stocks 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.
  • ISBN10 1844002365
  • ISBN13 9781844002368
  • Publish Date August 2005 (first published 3 October 2003)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 28 May 2008
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Quadrille Publishing Ltd
  • Edition Export ed
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Language English