Choosing Colours - the book

With this book Kevin McCloud has taken the hard work out of home decorating by researching, selecting and combining over 700 colours into more than 60 tried-and-tested palettes that will transform your home. Printed in six colours for astonishing accuracy, each palette is the blueprint for a decorative scheme. Transfer any palette to your own home, confident in the knowledge that it has been sourced by a renowned authority on colour with an instinctive understanding of colour trends.

Taken from a wide variety of sources - historical, regional and cultural - each palette is made up of colour swatches accompanied by a photograph demonstrating how those colours can be used in period or contemporary settings. A palette based on eighteenth-century French porcelain, for example, is translated into a modern country setting.

With hints on how best and in what situations to use each colour, the swatches are individually matched to a commercially available paint so you can effortlessly achieve the look.

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