Bold Colors for Modern Rooms: Bright Ideas for People Who Love Color

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	You can't go wrong with the clean, crisp look of white walls and neutral furnishings... right? Boooring!!! says interior design expert Sarah Lynch. In this book she provides a bold and inspirational guide for splashing rooms with lots of color. While most books on color offer strict palettes for established decorating schemes, Lynch instead encourages a refreshing "use-what-you-love" format that puts personal taste ahead of conformity and rules. For readers who want to liven things up, but don't know where to start, Lynch includes helpful guidance on colors that complement versus those that collide. She also includes color "Fact Files" that clue in readers on the impact specific hues have when used in quantity or over a large surface. Offering practical color advice for the real world, this book will help readers create exciting, high-impact living spaces they'll love.

		Date Published 10/1/2001

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Rated By: Stephen McHenry

From: Olney, MD

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Comments: Current but timeless
The main problem with a book such as this is that it can become outdated so quickly (if you have ever seen a used book from 20 or 30 years ago that was current and hip and modern to that time and horrible outdated now, you know what I mean). Sarah Lynch is concious of that potential problem and presents the material in such a fashion as to avoid being outdated, gives wonderful examples, explains colour principles, displays good photographs, and warns that there are rules for current fashion/interior decoration trends, but you can go ahead and break them if you want to, with guidance on what to watch for by the way of results. Also helpful is the last few chapters on how to correct mistakes if you don't like the results after all. If you have an inkling that you want to go bold but are hesitant, or looking for helpful direction, this is a good book.

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