Painting is affordable and quite easy to do. And changing the color in a room changes the atmosphere. For years white or cream paint where common wall colors throughout the house. But finally people have realized how boring that is and have turned to color for their walls.
Choosing the right paint can be a bit overwhelming if you aren’t use to working with color. Choosing the right color for a room is not as difficult as you might think.
Your paint, furniture fabric, window coverings, rug, and accessory colors will play a large role in what color you can choose. If you have your heart set on a certain color you can always change out some of the other items in your room.
One of the best clues you can have for choosing the right color is knowing what colors make you feel relaxed and happy. You’ll probably already find these colors in your home because they are the colors you’ll be drawn to.
Not sure what’s your best color? Look at the color of your pottery, your home accessories, your jewelry, and the clothing in your closet. You’ll quickly know what your color is!
Now that doesn’t mean that you have to choose that color but it does make you aware of what colors work best for you. Different colors elicit different feelings and moods. If your color isn’t appropriate for the living room it doesn’t matter. Chances are there is a room that it would look really good in. Don’t be afraid to mix colors. A yellow kitchen, a blue living room, and a red den will all look great. You do not need to use the same color throughout the house.
Feature walls always look great especially if the color you have chosen is too dark for an entire room. You can do one or two walls in your color and leave the other two white or cream. Don’t be afraid to experiment.
You should also make a trip to your local paint store. Pick up sample cards of colors you think you would like to use, or you can also pick up a color wheel. Grab as many samples as you like. That’s what they are there for. Then when you get home you can see how these colors look. Don’t forget to try them in different lighting and at night. Colors can look really different when sunlight hits them and when the lamp is their lighting. Make sure you like both affects.
Take your time choosing the color. Make sure after a week or so it’s still your favorite choice. It’s much easier to change your mind prior to painting the walls.
Here’s some color tips that will help you understand how color works. Complimentary colors are colors you will find directly across from each other on the color wheel. Harmonious colors are colors that are each side of the main color. Tint is color that is added to white and shades are colors that have had black added. Saturation is the amount of color. The more color the more vibrant the color.
Let’s say you are going to paint all four walls – two a dark blue and you want the complimentary color on the other two walls. You would take your color wheel, look straight across from your dark blue and have your complimentary color.
Let’s say you want one wall to be vibrant and bold then you would have a deeper saturation in the color. Perhaps you are going to paint the top half of a wall blue and you want to have a harmonious color for the bottom. If you looked on your color wheel you would see that purple is a harmonious color for blue.
How you use the color in your room is as important as what color you choose. Too much color or the wrong color can leave you feeling stressed and overly excited all the time. Too little color can be dreary and unmotivated.
Never be afraid to experiment. If you really hate the color you can easily change it with more paint. When it comes to painting nothing has to be permanent.
So isn’t it time to paint your home with color? Bring your home to life and give it a character all of its own!
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WallDreams Paint Ideas!Rarely do I see a room done in a white paint on purpose that truly works. Many of our homes and apartments are quickly painted in a white or offwhite to give it a "clean" look, but for me a white wall is just waiting for the right color, it is a blank stretched canvas, unfinished or even begun. A basic white wall feels unwelcoming and cold. Outside of our door, in nature is every color imaginable - the color of sky, earth, water, stone; every growing thing; flowers, trees, animals. There are colors and combinations of colors that you love.
If you can put together an outfit that makes you look and feel great, you can pick a wall color!
For some help in understanding color better, here are some very helpful links.
http://www.writedesignonline.com/resources/design/rules/color.html
http://interiordec.about.com/cs/artic12/a/des_decordos.htm
http://www.interior-design-it-yourself.com/decorating-with-color.html
http://www.makedecor.com/
Now, get a bucket of paint and get started!
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