{"id":12677,"date":"2011-08-10T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=12677"},"modified":"2011-08-05T09:22:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:22:36","slug":"home-decorating-help-at-your-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/home-decorating-help-at-your-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Decorating Help At Your Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I recently decided to paint a couple of rooms in my house, but I have the hardest time choosing colors.\u00a0 It’s just too hard to look at those little square samples and imagine what that color will look like in a whole room!\u00a0 And as it turns out, the library can help with that.\u00a0 We have lots of home decorating books that include painting ideas and tips.\u00a0 I checked out a few, and lo and behold I found the perfect colors for my bathroom and guest bedroom.\u00a0 My favorite ideas came from Home Rules: Transform The Place You Live Into A Place You Love<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Nate Berkus, and Robin Strangis’s Color Idea Book<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 I hate constantly using “boring” neutral colors, but I’m never sure how to add color without making the house look schizophrenic.\u00a0 Luckily, both of these books helped me figure out how to make it work.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here are a few more books we have that might help you\u00a0with\u00a0your latest painting\u00a0project.\u00a0 For more, stop in at any of our three locations and browse under the call number 747.<\/p>\n

Design on a Dime<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Amy Tincher-Durik and HGTV<\/p>\n

Paint Can! Techniques, Patterns, and Projects for Bringing Color Into Every Room<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Sunny Stack Goode<\/p>\n

Paint Style: The New Approach to Decorative Paint Finishes<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Lesley Riva<\/p>\n

Perfect Palettes: Inspirational Color Schemes for the Home Decorator<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Stephanie Hoppen and Joanna Copestick<\/p>\n

Easy Paint Makeovers: Crackling, Leafing, Sponging, Antiquing, and More<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kass Wilson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently decided to paint a couple of rooms in my house, but I have the hardest time choosing colors.\u00a0 It’s just too hard to look at those little square samples and imagine what that color will look like in a whole room!\u00a0 And as it turns out, the library[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[1695,1696,1697],"class_list":["post-12677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","tag-home-decorating","tag-interior-design","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3it","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12677"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12792,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions\/12792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}