So you’re decorating a room. You have a particular colour in mind. But you can’t for the life of you find a physical example of that colour anywhere and it’s so frustrating.
I remember a paint company (Dulux?) recently running an advertisement campaign based on this very dilemma of ‘hunting colours’. In the commercials people would discover the elusive colour they had been searching for in an unexpected object, and they would take that object along to the DIY store to get the colour matched.
Well it looks like I’m going to be taking this book along to the DIY store, because the inner covers have exactly the shade of burgundy I’ve been searching for as the main colour for my study.
Now who said books were only for reading? 
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I guess this now begs the question: Have you ever been inspired to decorate anything based on the design or colour palette of a book?
Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears | Jonathan Cape | April 2009 (UK) | £18.99 | HARDBACK | 608 PP | ISBN 9780224081795
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that is a great color. really dark shades can be iffy but that one is, as the french say, magnifique!
i’ve never had a book inspire me to decorate but when i first read patrick suskind’s “perfume: the story of a murderer” i found myself copying a curling design on the cover which is rather odd since i never doodle.
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Magnifique indeed Brittney, and thanks for sharing your delightful little tale.
Thanks for the post which reminds me to invesigate Ian Pears’ latest! Hope you find the right colour scheme. Just remember that dark colour make the room look smaller!
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In this case the prospect of a room that appears smaller is no big deal. It should make it more snug too.
Warmest
Rob