Color Your Life: How to Design Your Home with Colors from Your Heart - Hardcover

Ryan, Elaine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312368194 ISBN 13: 9780312368197

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007

Synopsis

Inspired by the need to feel comfortable and confident about the colors in our homes, COLOR YOUR LIFE teaches readers how to experiment with beautiful, bold and ageless color schemes for the home without ever making a mistake. ELAINE RYAN'S specially designed color matching system instructs homeowners how to pick colors that won't clash or bore. Filled with practical advice and designer tips to create the home of your dreams COLOR YOUR LIFE speaks to the emotional connection we have to our homes.
 
Inside there are dependable tips on:
--How to design every room of the home to reflect your lifestyle
--How to work with your child to design a bedroom you both will love
--How to transform an ordinary bedroom into a sensuous bedroom
--How to bring color into your home and life if you've become suddenly single
--Plus much more.
 
Through fun worksheets- like the amusing and practical "Supermarket Test", tips and other useful analysis sprinkled throughout the book, the reader learns to discover their favorite colors and how to incorporate them in their home.  In addition, this home decorating how-to includes a set of punch-out COLOR BARS, ELAINE RYAN'S unique color matching system that makes choosing colors easy and fun.   And because the colors have already been coordinated for you it is impossible to make a color mistake. They are a proven fool-proof way to COLOR YOUR LIFE!

About this title

From the Back Cover

NOTHING PRODUCES AN ENVIRONMENT OF PERSONAL SATISFACTION AS COLOR CAN

Easy and fun to read chapters such as:
THE SENSUOUS BEDROOM will show you how to create your romantic bedroom where all your senses are awakened. The sensuous bedroom is a hideaway - a retreat - for whomever occupies it. You'll find out why it's the most important room in your home.
YOU AND YOUR MOTHER will help you discover why you feel unsure that the colors you love wearing may "clash" if you used them in your home.
THE SUPERMARKET TEST will show you the key to your own color preferences - and you'll have fun in the process of discovering those colors you'll never tire living with.
YOU AND YOUR CHILD helps you to understand your child's view of his or her room. You'll see how they see. You'll feel as they feel.
SUDDENLY SINGLE will give you a new awareness of your life and your home as a newly single person. Whether divorced, recently out of an important relationship, or widowed, this chapter gives you what you need to create your own healing environment in your new life.

About the Author

An interior designer for more than thirty years, Elaine Ryan is the co founder of the International Interior Designers Association. She has been featured in major publications, including The New York Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times for her expertise on color in the interior environment. she lives in Connecticut.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312368194
• ISBN 13: 9780312368197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206