Color Therapy at Home: Real-life Solutions for Adding Color to Your Life will show you how to surround yourself with colors that bring you the most happiness, harmony, and well-being. Unlock the secrets of color therapy and use them to release your inner self.

Bring color to the forefront of your home's décor and explore how the right tone can be an antidote for stress and tension.

--Learn the properties and associations of each color.

--Discover hands-on design advice for decorating with color in your house or apartment.

--Find the color underpinnings of calm, stimulating, soothing, or inspiring spaces.

--Determine your personal color preferences, and pick the dominant, secondary, and accent colors for each room of your home with an ingenious color quiz.

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Color Therapy at Home presents an imaginative investigation into the subtle yet powerful effects of color in our everyday lives. Mark McCauley, an accomplished interior designer, explains why we associate certain emotional, physical, or intellectual traits with reds, yellows, greens, or blues. Blues, for example, provide feelings of restoration and clarity. Reds, on the other hand, lend an active, dynamic energy to a room. Dozens of dramatic photos illustrate how colors work alone and in combination to achieve desired effects. A clear vase of vibrant red cherries, for example, forms a witty complement to a wall painted a nurturing pale green. McCauley's writing is extremely associative, as when he asserts that "brown is the homburg hat of life. It is the furtive sip from the little brown jug that provides momentary warmth on cold winter afternoons."

Practical designer tips, such as how to test your color choices, tint ceilings, or dress your interiors in colors you love to wear, enhance the inspiring photographs and engaging text. The book closes with a chart of 264 traits one may wish to increase in one's life--such as healing, trusting, or understanding--then keys each trait to specific colors. For anyone planning to redesign an entire home or simply repaint the kitchen pantry, Color Therapy at Home is provocative guide to color's profound effects on our interior well-being. --Mary Ribesky