From Library Journal
The holistic healing approach now popular in interior design here is applied to the use of color. Cumming begins by explaining how the energy produced by different colors affects ones moods and discusses how chakras, which are "power centres through which...white light from the sun is drawn into the body," are influenced by color. Rather than suggesting various color schemes, the majority of this book focuses on individual colors and how their use in a home can create different moods. Purchase where there is an interest in this holistic approach to interior design. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Book Description
"The holistic healing approach now popular in interior design here is applied to the use of color....begins by explaining how the energy produced by different colors affects one's moods and discusses how chakras...are influenced by color. Rather than suggesting various color schemes...focuses on individual colors and how their use in a home can create different moods."--Library Journal.



About the Author
Catherine Cumming is an interior designer who specializes in the art of decorative painting. She has run her own successful business in the UK and abroad for the past 10 years. A regular contributor to various lifestyle magazines, Catherine has written four previous books: Decorative Floors, Makeover Kitchens and The Little Books of Color Healing Calm and Energy. She is a trained color therapist and is concerned with the healing qualities of color and its practical application in the home, extolling the virtues of decorative healing.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Color and light, both basic to decorating, are also intimately connected with our feelings and emotions. In this first-ever guide to the latest trend in home design-applying color theory to interior style—fascinating text and hundreds of full-color photographs help transform your living space into a haven of health and happiness. Organized by moods, chapters enable you to select entire color schemes or simple accessories to calm or invigorate, assist meditation or promote passion. Revitalize by adding reds and vibrant pinks—colors of energy, vigor, and excitement—to busy, physically active areas such as kitchens and lively living rooms, for example. But, watch out—avoid these hot colors in bedrooms, home offices, or other areas set aside for contemplation or relaxation, where gentle, broken color on walls and pale glass panels are the ideal. Whatever your emotional or physical needs, the stylish ideas presented here are just what the doctor ordered.

FROM THE CRITICS

Library Journal