The Perfect Palette : Fifty Inspired Color Plans for Painting Every Room in Your Home

In a unique, lavishly illustrated manual for selecting and combining paints, a consultant on color for major paint manufacturers shares her fifty foolproof color combinations for home interiors, along with painting instructions and more. 25,000 first printing.

There's nothing like a fresh coat of paint and a well-chosen color scheme to make interiors not only original and attractive, but places that make us feel good. Picking and combining colors usually means hours agonizing over a pile of paint chips. No more! Talented artist Bonnie Krims has done it for you, and here is her unique approach to making your home lovelier through color.

There is no other decorating book quite like this one. Each of its fifty exquisitely illustrated recipes offers a perfectly matched set of five colors--three main colors for use on walls, furniture, and accessories; an accent color to use on pillows, flowers, and lamps; and the recommended trim color. Paint rerference numbers from the major manufacturers are included--so you'll never stand glassy-eyed in front of a paint chip display or make a mess trying to mix paint color again.

From the indigo Grape Basket to the red Iceland Poppy, The Perfect Palette's color schemes were inspired by art and nature and were chosen to evoke tranquillity, excitement, and pleasure--all the many moods that color can express.

Over fifty beautiful four-color illustrations, glorious color photos of interiors, and quotations from the arts allow the reader to visualize each suggested color combination and reveal how important color can be. And you'll find indispensable guidance on choosing furnishings, fixtures, and accessories to go with your new walls...and make your room work as a uniform whole.

With practical advice on how to paint a room, a cross-reference color chart to three major paint brands, and a special section on "tuning in" to color, this book is an effortless guide to selecting the Perfect Palette: your key to a visually splendid home.