"Think of a place outside that contains a mood you want to bring into your home, such as the beach or a garden you saw on your travels. Identify the colors in its landscape and you can choose a room’s paint colors. Pick out its textures and you can decide what materials--rugs, wallpaper, upholstery fabric--to bring into the room. The harmonious home walks you through six different landscapes--dunes, ocean, field, forest, garden, and city--and shows you how to pull together color and pattern combinations you might not have imagined on your own that evoke the feeling of the place without looking overly thematic"--