title: Color Your Life: How to Design Your Home with Colors from Your Heart
author:  Elaine Ryan 
description: ELAINE RYAN, an interior designer for more than thirty years, is the cofounder of the Phoenix chapter of the International Interior Designers Association and is the inventor of the patented Color Bars color matching system. She has been featured in major publications, including The New York Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times for her expertise on color in the interior environment. She lives in Connecticut.
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  ### ALSO BY KATT ROSE
  
  
  
  
  
  THE LOSS
  
  
  
  
  
  BUILDING IT UP
  
  
  
  
  
  A FATHER’S DAUGHTER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # _Forget  
  Me  
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  KATT ROSE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Country Roads Publishing
  
  
  
  
  
  Vancouver Island
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  I’ve always hated these walls. They have no color. I crave color; I like the
  warmth but he has no patience for it. Everything in this house is arguably
  flawless, but it’s cold and it bears no character. The walls shine with white.
  Is white even a color? I don’t think it should have that right. White walls,
  white furniture, even the paintings that hang have no meaning, no life. They
  simply represent a number. And what is that number? Simple….expensive.
  
  
  I shifted my heavy eyes to the clock. The loud, ticking clock. Its incessant
  noise rang loud in my ears. It was just after three p.m. and here I was, alone
  at the kitchen table. I let out a heavy sigh; this was not how the day was
  supposed to play out. I was not supposed to sit here in our house so
  completely 