Hardie Grant Books
Published 2004
Softcover 102 pages
AUD$39.95
ISBN: 1740661559

The many sensitive psychological effects that are brought about by colour translate into the ability to create very specific ambient moods in an interior space. Whilst we may intuitively associate oranges and reds with warmth, blues with freshness, greens with rejuvenation, calm in creme, it is combinations of colours in a single room that can create highly satisfying and sensual complementary effects. The New Colour Book serves as a useful companion in designing a colour scheme for the home that both explains the concepts of chromatics and colour contrasts and provides a practical colour sampling feature for the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living room settings.

This is where the book really gets clever. The pages are arranged in a trisected split page design, allowing for the arrangement of thousands of colour scheme samples across the four rooms. This interactive medium will no doubt give the user a firm grasp on colour composition theory as well as explicitly modeling scheme possibilities for a new or existing home. The colour keys provided identify the featured colours with their corresponding paint codes, making a favoured scheme easily obtainable.