Farrow & Ball Recipes for Decorating

This book is absolutely amazing. The colors are beautiful and spot on. It also shows you how to blend colors throughout each room or how to add three colors in one room. Beautiful stunning pictures. Very happy about buying it. It's my go to book. For painting, the cool part is I get to take all the credit for the combinations I put together. I love this book❤️

I wish the colour grey wasn’t so dominant in the book ! I felt it was .

I really liked at the end of the book there was ideas for rooms based on styles and basically u could pick a style and each room had ideas for walls, ceilings, trims etc each room would compliment each other perfectly. I also loved the book offered guidance about white paint so yes if u wanted to keep woodwork white for instance u didn’t have to keep a stark white the list was there a cheat sheet if u will so u pick the perfect shade for the rest of your room. I’ve never seen that before. For most people paint or wall paper aside from carpets will be a big investment so these tricks of the trade are invaluable. I’m already planning to ditch the white ceilings and woodwork in my wee council flat. These tips would work in any home on any budget with any paint brand once u gain confidence just go with what feels right for your home.

We've just moved. Our new home is a bit of a blank canvas - great in some ways but it was difficult to know where to start. This book has spurred us on to make much needed decisions and stopped us just recreating our last place by helping us visualise all the new possibilities.It is easy to read and gives user-friendly information about design principles and use of colour. It provides a wide variety of case studies in different styles eg East London Elegance and Copenhagen. As you'd expect, the photographs are beautiful and the colours true. All paint colours for each scheme are named and listed. I think I will be using this as a reference for a long time to come.The book is good value for money. It arrived very promptly.

I recently refurbished my flat and found inspiration in this book. I think it's great for leafing through and getting a sense of how the F&B colours can help created mood and how the colours can tone and/or contrast. One section in the book is titled - Be your own consultant. I actually engaged a F&B colour consultant to help me but this book had helped me hone in on colour and mood for my flat.As another reviewer has commented the sections at the back are useful for showing how certain styles can be achieved with the F&V colour palettes.