Color in Small Spaces: Palettes and Styles to Fit Your Home

Recently took an Interior Design class and this book has been very helpful to understand color in decoration. The pictures a little old so it could be great if the authors update it. The theory, very useful though!!!

Color is a powerful way to set a mood, shift an outlook and transform a space. When thinking about colors in a living environment, it's important to decide what atmosphere--what feeling--you'd like to enhance or amplify through colors in that room. The special challenges of a small space can make those decisions even more complicated. Color in Small Spaces : Palettes and Styles to Fit Your Home offers clear guidlines to help master the dizzying world of color! Whether you enjoy subtle and classic or rich and juicy, this book can help you to "color your life beautiful!"

As a resident of Manhattan--the world's capital of small living spaces--I have to say that just browsing this book for a half hour has given me a few dozen ideas for how to make my studio look less like a college dorm room and more like the backdrop for a Vanity Fair photo-shoot that I wish it were. A quick browse of this book will give you numerous fresh ideas, but this is no quick reference guide, nor is it some Martha Stewart/Macgyver-esque smattering of ways to turn your used band-aid wrappers into paint stencils. Color In Small Spaces is researched and written in so thorough a manner as to make a perfect classroom text for students of interior design, in addition to the spacially clueless like me. Highly recommended for anyone who would like to learn how to make a cramped and muted floor-and-wallspace sing.

I loved this book of color ideas. Not only are there great photographs that are achievable styles, but being of the not so brave of heart it opened me up to the use of color and texture to style my home in an affordable mannor.I am not afraid to try out some of the ideas presented by Brenda and Kimberly. There is truly something for everyone's taste.Easy to read and comprehensive, this book can also be used as a coffee table type book. I keep it a copy in my salon for clients to read and they love it too!!