The Harmonious Home: Using Landscapes to Create Peaceful, Personal Spaces

＂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＂--

Rebecca Atwood received her BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design before beginning her career designing and consulting for major retailers. Today, she is a textile designer, an artist who blends traditional techniques with hand painting, and the author of Living with Pattern and Living with Color. Her interest in pattern is deeply rooted in her childhood on Cape Cod and her everyday observations of life in Charleston, South Carolina, where she lives with her family.