The First Home Decorating Guide to Address Love, Loss, and Passion

Combining home decoration and self-help, Ryan has mapped a territory of the human heart where no interior design book has gone before.

Color Your Life is a revolutionary new home decorating guide that empowers the reader to create the home they have always wanted. In a down-to-earth, conversational voice, interior designer Elaine Ryan embraces the truth that creating the comfortable and personal home is inextricably linked to our sense memories, our life stages, and is always accomplished with our hearts—not with our heads. With abundant humor and compassion, Ryan empowers people to trust their hearts, their intuition, and their instincts in creating the home that fits their particular style and their life.

Ryan, a syndicated columnist and popular lecturer, has helped thousands of ordinary people seeking harmony between their homes and their selves. Although audience questions in Ryan’s public appearances and columns ostensibly deal with home decorating issues, her empathy invites them to share their deepest desires and personal experiences, which are inextricably bound to their sense of home. Color Your Life is as much about fostering well-being as it is about designing a beautiful home.

Adding color your life is all about discovering the colors that resonate with you personally. Too often people end up defaulting to white and beige in their homes because they are afraid of picking colors that clash or making an expensive mistake that they will regret or grow tired of. To address this common fear, Ryan spent eight years developing her foolproof COLOR BARS color matching system that takes the anxiety out of combining colors. All the even-numbered colors on one side go together and all the odd-numbered colors on the other side go together. It’s that simple. The COLOR BARS, included with Color Your Life are a revelation for professionals and ordinary people alike.