Complimentary Color Schemes The procedure of picking paint colors for your home may seem to be totally subjective--you simply pick the colors you prefer. That is only partly true. Although it makes sense to get started on with the colors you like, other elements come into play. For instance, do the colors you've determined work well collectively? Do they compliment furnishing, carpeting, and window treatments already in place? Picking paint colors is really part artwork and part science. Let's focus on the science part first.
Employing the Color Wheel The color wheel arranges the color spectrum in a circle. It really is a sensible way to see which colors work very well together. It includes primary colors (red, blue, and yellow), secondary colors (green, orange, violet), and tertiary colors (red-blue, blue-red, etc). Secondary colors are made by mixing two primaries together, such as blue and yellow to make green. A primary color such as blue and a secondary color such as green can be blended to make a tertiary color--in this case, turquoise.
Now that you've got a color wheel before you, utilize it to help you envision certain color combinations. An analogous design includes neighboring colors that share an underlying hue.
Complementary colors lie opposing one another on the color wheel and frequently work well in concert. For instance a red and green living room in full strength might be hard to stomach, but consider a rosy pink room with sage green accents. Exactly the same complements in differing intensities can make attractive, relaxing combinations. A dual complementary color design involves yet another set of opposites, such as green-blue and red-orange.
Alternatively, you might choose a monochromatic scheme that involves using one color in a number of intensities. This ensures a harmonious color plan. When developing a monochromatic scheme, lean toward several tints or several shades, but avoid too many contrasting values, that is, combinations of tints and shades. This may make your scheme look uneven.
If you need a more technical palette of three or even more colors, go through the triads formed by three equidistant colors, such as red/yellow/blue or green/purple/orange. A split complement comprises three colors- one primary or intermediate and two colors on either side of its opposing side of the wheel. For example, instead of teaming purple with yellow, transfer the mixture to purple with orange-yellow and yellow-green.
Finally, four colors similarly spaced round the wheel, such as yellow/green/purple/red, form a tetrad. If such combinations sound a little bit like Technicolor, remember that colors intended for interiors are almost never undiluted. Thus yellow might be cream; blue-purple, a dark eggplant; and orange-red, a muted terra-cotta or whisper-pale peach. With less jargon, the color combinations get into these two basic camps:
Harmonious or analogous; plans, derived from nearby colors on the wheel less than halfway around.
Contrasting or complementary; techniques, derived from colors that are directly opposite on the wheel.
Colors for the Interior Don't just choose one color; think in terms of deciding on a color plan. Study your furniture, curtains, draperies, and rugs, and take note of which colors might complement them.
Next, take note of just how many colors you think you might be using. Will the baseboards be considered a different color than the walls? They usually are unless the trim is in bad shape and you do not want to call attention to it. Exactly the same is true of other trim, such as windows casings and chair rail.
How about the area where the walls meet up with the ceiling? Do you want to install crown molding or some other kind of cornice treatment there? Or are you considering painting the walls and demarcating the ceiling and wall junction with a color change?
In addition to paint colors, you'll also need to look for the level of finish or sheen the paint will have. The choices range from the most shiny (high gloss and semi-gloss) to the dullest (eggshell and flat). These designations change with paint companies, but they are essential because the sheen of paint affects the color. A guideline claims that walls usually receive flat or eggshell surface finishes whereas ceilings are almost invariably decorated with a flat finish. Trim is normally painted with a semi-gloss or high gloss. These finishes are stronger and easier to clean than duller surface finishes.
Think in terms of groups of colors.
Paint manufacturers group like colors together like below:
Interior Colors All paint stores can offer color chips of the paints they sell. Color chips will give you a small scale idea of what the actual colors will look like once applied. You need to do more than look at color chips to obtain a true sense of your colors... nevertheless they are a good place to start. Actually, a seasoned sales person at your neighborhood paint store can help you decide on color chips in a scheme. If you choose a buttercup yellow for the walls, the sales person can suggest color chips that are typically associated with a design that has buttercup yellow as its anchor color.
When you yourself have whittled down your color alternatives, look at the color chips or swatches in various types of light including natural light at different times of your day and in varying levels of artificial light. Even then, this color chip process is merely to get a concept of paints that you will sample in much larger swaths of color. Very few professional designers pick from chips, even though they may start their color selection from chips. If they do examine chips, they examine them one at a time over a white background.
Changes in Color Keep in mind that large surface areas make any paint color seem darker than the color chip. The degree of variation is usually equal to two shades. If you pick the color chip you desire, step "back" two shades darker for a true representation of what the color can look like when dry. Also, paint always appears darker once it dries. So, when you finally apply the paint, don't worry if the color doesn't look right at first. Wait until it dries.
When you are zeroing in on your final colors, paint a 2 x 3 foot poster board or fabric material with the anchor color and place it around the house so as to visualize it in different light and near different colored carpets and rugs and furniture.
Space and Color Colors can affect how you perceive the size of an area. Warm colors like reds, yellows, and oranges can make a space appear smaller because they can offer a cozy feeling to the area. The so called cool colors like blues and greens may actually recede from you, making an area appear larger than it really is. If you actually want to make an area seem large go with an old standby such as a shade of white (there are dozens) or a neutral color.
Sizing the Area While you get nearer to buying paint, determine the square footage of the area you will paint. Multiply the length of each wall by the width. Subtract the area occupied by the doors, windows, and other openings. Add all of the measurements together to obtain a total square footage of the surface you must paint. If you're applying two layers which is normal for most paint jobs, you'll be painting the surface twice.
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