Color Schemes Made Easy (Better Homes & Gardens) (ISBN 0696221268)

Good color combos:
This is a good book on color for your home. The first part of the book covers the color wheel and basic color theory. It's nothing new, and not really detailed, but a nice overview. Then each chapter focuses on a different main color. The pictures of the rooms are beautiful - very much like you might see in Better Homes, Country Home, or Country Living magazines - and usually show a good use of the color scheme they are portraying. It is not too trendy, most seem like you could live with them for many years. I would have liked to see deeper and brighter oranges though. Leaned heavily toward apricots and corals. Also needed more warm-toned browns. The end of the book has all the color schemes used in the book, for matching to paint chips or fabric samples. Also a nice way to match color schemes if you were planning a whole house, since the main color in a plan turns up as an accent in other plans. This book could also be useful to crafters looking for new colors to try together. I'm thinking of using some of the color schemes in knitting.

Very helpful:
This is a great reference book. Having just built our home, I needed some professional help in the coordination of the colours I wished to use and it gave me some fresh great ideas I would never have thought of on my own. Highly recommended.

A good reference book:
Learning from experience takes too long. It is better to read this book so that designing with the right combination of colours is more cost effective and less hassle.

wish I knew where they bought some of their materials!:
I love this book. It was really helpful to have explanations not just of what colors work together but why. Didn't always love all the interior design styles in all the pictures, but even if I didn't care for a particular kind of furniture or style of room, their explanations helped me see how and why the COLORS of that room worked. Liked the color scheme "paint chips" at the back of the book - makes it possible to think about how to put together rooms in those same palettes without necessarily copying the same style of decor the authors used in their sample room. But... does anybody have any idea where they got that gorgeous tablecloth on page 51?!

Not as informative as other books:
If you are trying to figure out how to pull the color scheme for your home together you may find other books to be more helpful. Unfortunately, the title did not live up to its name as it was not "easy" to follow and I then suggested 1001 Ideas for Color and Paint to my clients.