Living with Color

Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home | Rebecca Atwood

It‘s here! #BookMail and #BlameItOnLitsy selection I saw @TheAromaofBooks post about. I peeked inside at various pages and it‘s gorgeous. May just read in small bites. I‘m not painting any time soon, so I can savor the advice here.

TheAromaofBooks Oh YAY!! I hope you love it!! If nothing else, the book itself is so pretty 😂 2d

DogMomIrene @TheAromaofBooks It‘s definitely gorgeous! Excited to start reading it. 2d

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Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home | Rebecca Atwood

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I first bought, read, and loved this book back in 2020. Now that we're getting ready to move and I have an entire house to update, it seemed like a great time to revisit it. Atwood just does a fantastic job with this book. She gives you the science behind color and our perception of it, then moves into the more emotional aspect of it - somehow, she stays out of woo-woo land by encouraging readers to ground the way they feel about colors with ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) practical application. There is a section visiting homes of various people who work with color (as home decorators and the like), and even with the homes that I didn't like, Atwood still points out tips for incorporating the methods used. The final section talks about how to create your own color wheel and palettes for different spaces. Just like when I read it the first time, this book immediately had me looking at everything around me ⬇ 1w

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) differently, looking at undertones, connecting colors, the way textures can change color, etc. Even if you aren't getting ready to redecorate your house, I still high recommend this one as it goes beyond just slapping some paint on walls, with tips on making small changes (even things like putting a bowl of fruit on your table) to brighten spaces and tie things together. A perfect balance between science, feelings, and practical ⬇ 1w

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DogMomIrene This book sounds fantastic! We‘re not ready to paint…yet…so may be the perfect read to start thinking about wall colors. Thanks! 1w

TheAromaofBooks @DogMomIrene - She has lots of ideas for testing colors using other items in your space, plus seeing how you feel about those colors at different times of day and different lighting. So I think it's a great book to read while you're still in the thinking stage!! 1w

AnnCrystal Does this talk about precisely which colors affect which mood (orange can encourage eating and conversation, green can calm you, blue can make you feel safe)? Or is it vague about direct emotional affects and more about how colors work together to appease the eye? 1w

Lcsmcat We‘ve been trying to decide what color to paint the dining room for YEARS. Sounds like I need to read this book. 😀 1w

TheAromaofBooks @AnnCrystal - Both, but I would say more the latter than the former. There is a section where she talks about each color, its history, and an overview of how it generally impacts mood and space, which leads into how combining different colors can be appealing, sometimes because it's also combining two feelings (blue for comfort + orange for warmth & energy). The author definitely believes that color is personal and encourages the reader to think ⬇ 1w

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) about memories and places that may influence how YOU feel about a color beyond how it is “supposed“ to make you feel. (I.e. I got teased wearing a red dress when I was little and still don't like the color red.) So while she does give the broad strokes to general color+mood theory, she talks more about discovering what appeals to you personally and how to help focus that into a harmonic whole. 1w

TheAromaofBooks @Lcsmcat - The author is so warm and friendly and I love the tips that she gives for experimenting with color before making big commitments. 1w

AnnCrystal @TheAromaofBooks perfect, Thank You! 👏☺️👍📚🎨💝. 1w

DogMomIrene @TheAromaofBooks Totally where we are! We‘ve been in this house for just over a year and we haven‘t hung any art because we‘re still moving things around, making sure we like how we‘re moving around various spaces. I checked my library and they don‘t have it, so I‘m buying it and savoring it🥰 7d

TheAromaofBooks @DogMomIrene - I hope you love it!! It has sprayed edges and a wonderful matte finish on the cover, so many pictures - I find it a joy to handle as well as read haha 7d

julieclair This looks SO interesting! Stacked! 6d

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Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home | Rebecca Atwood

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We're in the process of doing some work on the house and painting is one of the next steps. So this was really helpful in thinking about color theory and how we want our house to feel with different color choices.
#Nonfiction2023 purple rain @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Great choice! I hope it helps you pick great colors. (edited) 2y

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Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home | Rebecca Atwood

No, it's fine. I didn't want to read that book anyway 😂
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Leftcoastzen 😁👏😻 2y

dabbe It's time to love da kitty! That's what time it is! 🤣❣️🐾 2y

Ruthiella #KittensagainstLiterature 😻 2y

persephone1408 Your cat and my cat must be talking lol 2y

Dragon 😹😻💚🐉 2y

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Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home | Rebecca Atwood

I love this idea!! The #Pantone2022 challenge is all about finding covers that match Panton's spring/summer colors (fall/winter pallet coming later in the year). Check out @Clwojick's page for more details!!

Clwojick Thanks for sharing! The more I look at it, the happier I get. Such fun colours. 3y

TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick - I definitely didn't find each of these colors as a separate jpeg so I could print them out and create a multi-page spread in my 2022 bullet journal 😂 3y

Just_reading What a clever idea! 3y

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Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home | Rebecca Atwood

The hardest part of singing up for #NewYearWhoDis is narrowing down the books I would recommend, especially since my genres hop around a lot. For instance, I definitely included the tagged book, which as it's a nonfiction book about using color in your home decor, is really outside my usual realm - but I LOVED It!

Limited spaces for this fun booklist exchange, so head over to @monalyisha 's page for more details & the sign-up link!!

Clare-Dragonfly I think getting a list that‘s outside your usual reading is part of the fun of the event! 4y

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Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home | Rebecca Atwood

@emilymdxn is hosting a readathon next week!!! Check out her original post for more details.

It's really hard to pick a book that's taught me something, since I feel like every book teaches me something (even if it's just, “Wow, don't ever read that book again“ haha) The tagged book is one I read recently that seemed like it should have been fluff, but it ended up being really engaging. I've been using my color wheel a lot since I read it!

Geenie 😂 funny 5y

Emilymdxn I‘ve definitely read books where the message was that I don‘t like books like this lol 😂 that book sounds so interesting I‘d love to read more books like that 5y

TheAromaofBooks @Emilymdxn - Living With Color was a lovely book!! I don't really have a natural knack with colors or decorating, so I really appreciated the way she laid it out both scientifically and in a more touchy-feely way. Looking forward to your readathon!! ❤ 5y

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Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home | Rebecca Atwood

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So obviously I thought I would like this book, or I wouldn't have bought it. But I ended up genuinely loving this one. Atwood starts with a scientific look at color, terms, the color wheel, texture, etc. The rest of the book is rather on the touchy-feely side, but because she has set everything up so well, I didn't mind. Color IS very emotional and visceral, and Atwood very thoughtfully takes her readers through the spectrum of colors ⬇️

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) exploring their history and usage, and encouraging her readers to reflect on their personal history and feelings with each color. The next section visits several homes owned by interior decorators, clothing designers, artists, and other people whose livelihood deals with color. I wasn't expecting to like this section as much, as none of the home styles really appealed to me, but again Atwood pulls practical information & tips that can ⬇ 5y

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) be used even by someone who likes things quiet and boring like me. In the final section of the book, Atwood gives readers multiple steps to follow to really think about how to use color in our own homes, including making your own color wheel and color palettes, and exploring color and texture all around you. All in all, while touchy-feely, this book also had so much useful, interesting information that I ended up loving it. Recommended! 5y

TheAromaofBooks This is my #CoverCrush for #Booked2020 - I honestly bought this book because it appealed to me at a tactile level. The cover is a matte finish, the page edges are sprayed blue, the pages are glossy and beautiful - I love absolutely everything about the physical aspect of this book!! ❤ @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @barbarathebibliophage

Also my Nonfiction Book for #WinterBookBingo @Honeybeegirl and L for #LitsyAtoZ @bookishmarginalia 5y

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TheAromaofBooks Purple on the Cover for #TurningPagesBingo and FINALLY found a title with No E for #BackwardsAtoZ!!! 5y

Cinfhen I was just gonna write how gorgeous this photo is 💟 5y

TheAromaofBooks @Cinfhen - thank you! The artwork I picked up an Meijer last year just because I couldn't resist it. We had just finished painting the room and I NEEDED this picture against my lavender wall!! 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage I definitely think color changes everything. As I recline on my sofa in our sage green room with bright paintings on the walls ... 5y

TheAromaofBooks @BarbaraTheBibliophage - yes! It's just such a personal thing, and I loved the way this author encouraged everyone to embrace that, whether you love bright colors, or neutrals, or small pops of color or vibrant walls, or whatever. As someone who was a renter for years and not allowed to paint walls, changing to home ownership has been challenging and a little scary when it comes to painting and decorating. Slowly coming together now though! 🤗 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @TheAromaofBooks I hear you. We lived in our house for a long time before we painted the major spaces. 5y

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Living with Color: Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home | Rebecca Atwood

Although I didn't have much reading time yesterday, it was enough to send me over my goal of 34hrs for #JumpStart2020!!

I've been spending some time soaking in this gorgeous book. Everything about it makes it SUCH a pleasure to read and handle. While I am fond of my Kindle, I can't imagine trying to read a book like this on it.

@Clwojick @Lizpixie

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