Complimentary Color Schemes The procedure of picking paint colors for your home may appear totally subjective--you simply select the colors you prefer. That is merely partly true. Although it makes sense to start with the colors you like, other elements come into play. For instance, do the colors you've determined work well collectively? Do they work with furnishing, carpeting, and draperies already in use? Picking paint colors is really part artwork and part science. Let's start with the science part first.
Using the Color Wheel The color wheel arranges the color spectrum in a circle. It 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, and so on). 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 produce a tertiary color--in this circumstance, turquoise.
Now that there is a color wheel in front of you, put it to use to help you envision certain color combinations. An analogous design involves neighboring colors that share an underlying hue.
Complementary colors lie complete opposite one another on the color wheel and frequently work well together. For instance a red and green living room in full intensity might be hard to stomach, but look at a rosy pink room with sage green accents. Similar complements in differing intensities can make attractive, relaxing combinations. A dual complementary color design involves an additional set of opposites, such as green-blue and red-orange.
Alternatively, you might opt for a monochromatic scheme which involves using one color in a variety of intensities. This ensures a harmonious color design. When creating a monochromatic scheme, lean toward several tints or several shades, but avoid way too many contrasting values, that is, combinations of tints and shades. This can make your design look uneven.
If you want a more complex palette of three or even more colors, look at 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 part of its opposite side of the wheel. For example, rather than teaming purple with yellow, change the mixture to purple with orange-yellow and yellow-green.
Lastly, four colors equally spaced round the wheel, such as yellow/green/purple/red, form a tetrad. If such combinations sound a little like Technicolor, understand that colors intended for interiors are rarely undiluted. Thus yellowish 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 fall into these two basic camps:
Harmonious or analogous; techniques, derived from neighboring colors on the wheel less than halfway around.
Contrasting or complementary; schemes, derived from colors that are directly opposite on the wheel.
Interior Paint Schemes Don't just choose one color; think in terms of picking a color structure. Review your furniture, curtains, window treatments, and rugs, and word which colors might complement them.
Next, make note of 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 condition and you don't want to call attention to it. Similarly it is true of other trim, such as window casings and chair rail.
How about where the walls meet the ceiling? Will you install crown molding or various other type 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 surface finish or sheen the paint will have. The options range from the most shiny (high gloss and semi-gloss) to the dullest (eggshell and flat). These designations fluctuate with paint manufacturers, but they are important because the sheen of paint influences the color. A guideline claims that walls usually receive flat or eggshell surface finishes whereas ceilings are almost invariably painted with a flat finish. Trim is typically decorated with a semi-gloss or high gloss. These coatings are stronger and simpler to clean than duller finishes.
Think in terms of groups of colors.
Paint manufacturers group like colors together like below:
Interior Color Chips All paint stores can provide color chips of the paints they sell. Color chips will provide you with a small scale idea of what the colors can look like once applied. You need to do more than look at color chips to get a true sense of your colors... nevertheless they are a good place to start. Actually, a seasoned sales rep at your local paint store can help you decide on color chips in a scheme. If you choose a buttercup yellow for the walls, the sales rep can suggest color chips that are usually associated with a scheme that has buttercup yellow as its anchor color.
When you have whittled down your color options, look at the color chips or swatches in several types of light including day light at differing times of the day and in varying levels of artificial light. Even then, this color chip process is just to get a concept of paints that you'll sample in bigger swaths of color. Very few professional designers pick from chips, even though they could start their color selection from chips. If they do examine chips, they examine them one at a time on a white background.
Changes in Color Keep in mind that large surface areas make any paint color look darker than the color chip. The degree of variation is usually equal to two shades. In the event that you pick the color chip you want, step "back" two shades darker for a genuine representation of what the color can look like when dry. Also, paint always looks darker once it dries. So, when you finally apply the paint, don't worry if the color doesn't look right initially. Hold out until it dries.
If 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 throughout the house so that you can visualize it in different light and near different colored floor coverings and furniture.
Size and Color Colors make a difference how you perceive the size of a room. Warm colors like reds, yellows, and oranges can make a space appear smaller because they can provide a cozy feeling to the area. The so called cool colors like blues and greens appear to recede from you, making an area appear larger than it really is. If you actually want to make an area seem large choose an old standby like a shade of white (there are dozens) or a neutral color.
Sizing the Area When you get nearer to buying paint, determine the square footage of the room you will paint. Multiply the length of each wall by the width. Subtract the space occupied by the doors, windows, and other openings. Add all of the measurements together to obtain a total square footage of the area you must paint. If you're applying two coats which is normal for some paint jobs, you will be painting the area twice.
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