Colorscapes: Inspiring Palettes for the Home |  | Author: Susan Sargent
Creators: Jill Connors, Eric Roth
Publisher: Bulfinch
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 431,466
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 0821228684
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.94
EAN: 9780821228685
ASIN: 0821228684
Publication Date: November 9, 2006
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Product Description
COLORSCAPES builds on the success of Susan Sargent's highly-acclaimed Bright House Color Workshops, and includes secrets heretofore only shared with workshop attendees. In this book, Sargent explores how to create a personal color palette and presents an original approach to the often mystifying process of picking a color. She discusses how to use color to solve room challenges, how to use mood boards to plan the elements of an entire room, how to achieve a harmonious color balance, and how to use such familiar tools as paint, fabric, artwork, glass, and tile. Each chapter of the book is devoted to a different color concept in various locations and spans many decorative styles. Sargent conveys her belief that with color, anyone can create a home full of inspiration, serendipity, and personal style.
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 Colorful Homes May 9, 2007
Deb (usa)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am a Susan Sargant fan and a lover of color... Her new book Colorscapes is a true inspiration. If you are tired of decorating around beige then this is the book for you! Here you are guided to find your own personal color's,put together your own design board, and forge ahead with confidence in creating the colorful spaces you have always wanted to live with! It is a wonderful addition to your home library.
A must buy book before repainting your walls white.... February 14, 2007
Cocodrie (MA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is another great book by Susan Sargent!
A lot of pictures to give you ideas to design your home, and it looks doable! No oversized mansions with 20ft high ceiling and gigantic rooms full of antiques and paintings you expect to find in a museum.
Real pro advice from a pro designer to help you achieve your own dream home design.
And you will read this book like a good novel, there are stories behind those homes beeing redone.
Susan is definitely the best when it comes down to put together bright colors without beeing tacky!
Simply Brilliant... November 29, 2009
esbee
To quote from the intro chapter, while the authors believe color is 'intensely personal' and that rules are meant to be broken, the book provides numerous 'almost-formulas' to relieve anxiety, get organized and stop us from getting overwhelmed. Splendid photo displays cover a broad range of moods, tastes, styles - a treat to the eyes. Kudos to the photographer. So glad to have discovered Susan Sargent with this book.
 Colorscapes: Inspiring Palettes for the Home January 3, 2007
Cirestra (Palatine Bridge, NY USA)
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
Made me less shy with color, that's for sure!
 Rushed to press? June 19, 2007
wrenn (Atlanta, GA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Susan Sargent has a brilliant eye for color, and the book is filled with fabulous pictures of vividly-colored interior spaces. Where the book falls short is in the text. The descriptions of what, why and how are all too brief and poorly related to the photos. The text and the photos often do not match each other, and too often there is no corresponding picture. In one chapter, the author describes how a family painting inspired the entire color pallette of the home, but the painting is never shown. In another, the photo caption lists the colors used in the room but omits the most dominate color. At one point, the text just stops mid-sentence, and the reader is left wondering how the book ever went to press in this condition.
The photos are inspiring, but the book suffers from a lack of editorial effort. Matching text and photos on the same page or using the common convention of including a page reference or 'not shown' would have been most welcome. If you want more than eye candy, you have to work at understanding what is going on in the mind of this brilliant decorator.
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