House Beautiful Blue: 350 Inspiring Ways to Decorate with Blue

The definitive book on the most popular color in decorating–beautifully wrapped in gorgeous blue fabric.
Filled with hundreds of decorating ideas that professional interior designers have used successfully in their own rooms, House Beautiful Blue explains how to showcase blue throughout a home and how to mix it with other colors and patterns. From wall paints and fabrics, furniture and accessories, the stunning blue palette you’ll live with happily for years is right here.

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L. M. Keefer says:

July 3, 2011 at 11:30 am

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

350 Ideas on Using Blue in Your Home, April 14, 2011

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This review is from: House Beautiful Blue: 350 Inspiring Ways to Decorate with Blue (Hardcover)

For lovers of the color blue, this is a handy little reference book sure to spark some ideas. I love blue as an accent color to cool my favorite shades of pink, red and yellow down and provide balance. The book provides a room-by-room tour starting in the foyer, travelling through the living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, family rooms, bedrooms and baths. You really see how the different shades of blue impact mood of a room. Blue can seem super cool and sometimes even warm with enough cream in it. One of my designer friends sponge-painted her bathroom in blue, and you felt like you were in the ocean when you were in the room–how cool and refreshing!

The book should be helpful for those who love blue and want to see which shade of it they like most, which room or rooms they want to use it in and how much blue they like in a room. The book also pairs blue with other colors such as green, salmon, beige, yellow so you can see which other colors you like it with. Blue paints with their names and manufacturers’ names (Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams etc.) are listed as a reference.

I loved the suggestions on accents with blue as that’s how I like to use the color: there were pages featuring party tables, lamps, vases, pillows, rugs, wallpapers, fabrics and tiles.

There’s quotes by designers on blue which are fun to read and provoke thought on the use of blue. If HOUSE BEAUTIFUL does more books on color–and hope they do–would consider doing a slightly larger book in a paperback cover–some of the rooms the reader may like to see more of the room or a slightly larger photo of it although you could see enough of most of the rooms to satisfy.

This book is a great resource for the price, and will be invaluable if you love the color blue and want to include it in your environment in a fresh and stylish way.

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E. Spragins "Author of If I'd Known Now" says:

July 3, 2011 at 12:19 pm

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

“Blue Heaven” of a decorating book!, April 3, 2011

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This review is from: House Beautiful Blue: 350 Inspiring Ways to Decorate with Blue (Hardcover)

I love this book! I’m a shelter magazine fan and have been reading Lisa Cregan in House Beautiful for years. She has a fantastic eye and has collected inspiring rooms, objects and other elements all involving the color blue. From teal and aqua to royal and navy blue, all shades are represented here in a range of settings. It’s most helpful that so many paint brands and colors are identified. I especially love the decorators’ quotes, which illuminate why they chose a color and the role it performs in a room. So, in addition to being a visual feast, Blue is super resource for any decorating project involving this wonderful color. I’m going to give copies to my sisters, who are both imaginative decorators.

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jiemac says:

July 3, 2011 at 1:11 pm

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Amazing!, June 19, 2011

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This book is so unbelievably well done! It is just absolutely perefect. The set-up is wonderful. The photos are superb and the writing is as good as it gets. I would recommend this book to anyone!

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