"Add a designer's touch to your home. Choosing colors for your home is a breeze! This pocket-sized guide showcases more than 450 colors that professional interior designers selected for their spaces..."--Back cover.

Offers almost five hundred paint colors for interior design, featuring personal insights from top interior designers on their favorite hues.

Based on House Beautiful’s popular color column, a guide to setting the mood and adding a designer’s touch in any room with a simple coat of paint. This gorgeous primer showcases more than 450 colors selected by top interior designers who explain how and why they chose these particular paints—along with swatches complete with manufacturer, name, and number, to help you pick the perfect pigment. Exploring everything from bold saturated hues to more soothing shades and essential neutrals, the designers offer special insight into what makes color work and how it influences the different spaces. The insider advice, plus stunning images of inspiring rooms, will help you select the ideal colors you’ll enjoy for years.

A complete guide to decorating with any shade of blue. Learn how to showcase blue throughout your home, and mix it with other colors and patterns.

An inspiring, accessible collection of the colorful interiors at the heart of the House Beautiful House Beautiful: Live Colorfully showcases a wide range of colorful homes, with an emphasis on spaces that have a distinctive “color point of view.” Maybe it’s how to pair multiple bright paints in one room, or how to build a palette from a prized textile or wallcovering—no color is off limits. In addition to super-pigmented lacquers and a rainbow of pastels, chapters also feature neutrals such as an all-wood interior and a home in creams and whites that still has tons of personality. Each of these homes are shown across multiple spreads that feature highlights from both the interiors and exteriors. Additionally, sidebars sprinkled throughout offer a wide array of tips for both the novice and expert interior designer, including smart paint pairings, how to read a room’s light before committing to a color, how to stencil paint onto a wall, and much more. House Beautiful: Live Colorfully will be a timeless collection of inspiring homes with all of the unexpected takeaways that readers of the magazine have loved for years.