Comfort Colors: Palettes for Liveable Rooms

This is a wonderful book that shows you how to use color to create comfortable living spaces. It is packed with great color pictures with brief captions plus a more detailed text for each chapter and sprinkled with insightful comments from experienced designers.The book starts out discussing color and how it affects our well-being. It also explains color theory and then shows rooms including triad, complementary, monochromatic and analogous color schemes. An entire chapter is then devoted to neutrals. I liked one room with a wood floor and black furniture that was accented with a variety of brightly colored bowls and vases. Each of the primary and secondary colors is explored in it's own chapter. Here we have rooms in which the design centers around one major color and can see varied moods and styles that can be created with that color. My favorite was a little girl's bedroom with violet walls and a fantasy castle mural. I also like one with yellow chairs and Asian character throw pillows.The book wraps up by showing you what colors designers use most for living rooms, dining rooms, family rooms, kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms. This can be very important if you want to redecorate your home, but may need to resell it and some point. In the back there is a bibliography and an index of both designers and photographers with contact information.

The book is easy to follow. Chapter and photos are logical, the room scenes are inspiring, and the book is quite affordable. It is easy to scan, or read carefully for the educational value within the data and descriptions of color theory.