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| Perfect Neutrals: Color You Can Live With | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephanie Hoppen
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 194041
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 9.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0823039951
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.94
EAN: 9780823039951
ASIN: 0823039951
Publication Date: December 1, 2006
Release Date: December 1, 2006
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Product Description
Use color with confidence! * Personalized decorating without the stress
* Sourcebook of product information, plus how to match and coordinate colors
* Hundreds of color photos plus swatches of paint and fabric eliminate guesswork Think neutrals are beige, cream, taupe, white, and black? Think again. In a new world of color and design, neutrals go beyond these basics to embrace real colors that real people can live with. In Perfect Neutrals, Stephanie Hopper showcases the vast variety of new neutrals--from sage green to soft lilac, from cool silver to whispered gold. With her help, anyone can put these tones together and add accents to create dramatic effects. Rich photographs demonstrate how to balance colors, how layering works with different shades of color, how to add texture with fabric, and more. Case studies feature paint and fabrics that are widely available from such national brands as Restoration Hardware, Benjamin Moore, Farrow & Ball, and other companies. In the past, choosing just the right neutral to suit a room or a mood was hard. Perfect Neutrals makes it easy.
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Astonishing August 11, 2008
So it is a nice book -- well printed, good in the hand, and done on quality paper.
I can't stop staring at this thing. There is something so utterly correct and compelling about the color sense that underlies the work here. Quite a remarkable achievement.
Exceptionally beautiful and practical design advice January 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am delighted with this book, which is very current since it was just published in 2007. It covers every color in the palate, but in their muted, neutral versions. It's divided into several sections that show ideal ways to blend each neutral color family, including reds, purples, blues, yellows and greens, in addition to several shades of white, beige, gray, taupe and brown. Each section has fully referenced pictures of swatches of paints, fabrics, and flooring material. The paints are readily available in the USA from Benjamin Moore among other suppliers.
The quality of the photography is outstanding, with crisp, clear detail. The book focuses on the work of a handful of designers in USA, England and South Africa. It is nice to see the geographic dispersion -- the South African rooms, for example, contain feather headdresses on the walls which are just extraordinary and something I've never seen in USA.
If you are doing your own design, you can easily replicate what is presented here. Not only are there schemes to copy, but the author clearly presents a practical methodology to create lovely interiors using the "neutral" fabrics, paints and materials that are widely available today.
I own lots of design books. This one ranks among the very best.
 Beautiful Book! September 1, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book shows how many muted colors can become beautiful, new neutrals for your decorating. Each section is broken down into color palettes. Easy to flip to hues you are interested in. Colors used in photos (of famous int. designers) don't always agree with paint, fabric and rug swatch examples used in each section. Paint colors are all referenced, but furniture, etc are not.
Excellent Book!!!! June 26, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I don't know much of decoration and having this book makes me feel like I have the best decoration book I could wish for...full of pictures and great ideas.
CMG chairholder recomended May 14, 2007
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
The book is well priced and full of beautiful color photo's showing this neutral concept that is always in style. Nice work on color boards of real materials that you can research. I see this influncing many of us to use more neurtalized colors in our palettes for our homes and places of work. As big user of the Munsel, color theory is alive and well and it shows in this book neutrals will always be in style they are the canvas and background that enhances the higher chroma colors.
This will become a resource book for me.
MS (Industral designer and colorist)
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