Victorian Exterior Decoration: How to Paint Your Nineteenth-Century American House Historically

Victorian Exterior Decoration: How to Paint Your Nineteenth-Century American House Historically
by Roger W. Moss, Gail Caskey Winkler

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Author: Gail Caskey Winkler, Roger W. Moss
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-11-15
ISBN: 0805023135
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

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Book Review: Useful, but not quite as directional as the title suggests
Summary: 4 Stars

From the title, I guess I was hoping for some clear direction on what colours to use. Instead, the book gives an overview of colour usage during this period, and changing trends, supported by quotes from critics of the period and illustrated by many original images from contemporary paint companies, advertisers, books of architecture etc. So what the authors expect you to do is to study all of that material and make your own decisions on what colours to use. To help you, they provide a detailed list of equivalent modern paint colours from several major companies such as Sherwin. Although helpful, I would have appreciated something a bit easier to understand and some more direct suggestions of typical colour schemes for, say, 1880. It is fascinating to see the original illustrations but, despite the quality of the reproduction, it is not always easy to make out what colours they have used.

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Summary of Victorian Exterior Decoration: How to Paint Your Nineteenth-Century American House Historically

Victorian Exterior Decoration provides a foolproof system for choosing the colors that will best suit the particular style of any house.

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