Complimentary Color Schemes The process of picking paint colors for your home may seem totally subjective--you simply select the colors you prefer. That is only partly true. Although it makes sense to get started on with the colors you like, other elements enter into play. For instance, do the colors you've preferred work well collectively? Do they work with furnishing, carpeting, and window treatments already in use? Picking paint colors is actually part artwork and part science. Let's start with the science part first.
Working with the Color Wheel The color wheel arranges the color spectrum in a circle. It is a sensible way to see which colors work 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 mixed to produce a tertiary color--in this circumstance, turquoise.
Now that you've got a color wheel in front of you, use it to help you envision certain color combinations. An analogous design entails neighboring colors that share an underlying hue.
Complementary colors lie complete opposite each other on the color wheel and often work well together. Say for example 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, soothing combinations. A double complementary color scheme involves an additional group of opposites, such as green-blue and red-orange.
Alternatively, you can select a monochromatic scheme which involves using one color in a variety of intensities. This ensures a harmonious color plan. When developing a monochromatic design, lean toward several tints or several shades, but avoid too many contrasting values, that is, combinations of tints and shades. This may make your design look uneven.
If you want a more technical palette of three or more colors, look at the triads formed by three equidistant colors, such as red/yellow/blue or green/purple/orange. A split complement is composed of three colors- one primary or intermediate and two colors on either side of its complete opposite side of the wheel. For example, rather than teaming purple with yellow, switch the mixture to purple with orange-yellow and yellow-green.
Lastly, four colors similarly spaced around the wheel, such as yellow/green/purple/red, form a tetrad. If such combinations seem somewhat like Technicolor, remember that colors intended for interiors are hardly ever 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 fall into both of these basic camps:
Harmonious or analogous; techniques, derived from close by colors on the wheel less than halfway around.
Contrasting or complementary; strategies, derived from colors that are directly opposite on the wheel.
Interior Complementary Colors Don't just choose one color; think in terms of picking a color structure. Review your furniture, curtains, draperies, and carpeting and rugs, and take note which colors might supplement them.
Next, be aware of just how many colors you think you may 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. Similarly it is true of other trim, such as windows casings and seat rail.
How about where the walls meet the ceiling? Do you want to install crown molding or various other kind of cornice treatment there? Or will you be 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 vary with paint companies, but they are essential because the sheen of paint impacts 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 finishes are stronger and better to clean than duller coatings.
Think in terms of groups of colors.
Paint manufacturers group like colors together like below:
Interior Wall Colors All paint stores can provide 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 will need to do more than take a look at color chips to obtain 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 select color chips in a scheme. If you choose a buttercup yellow for the walls, the sales rep can suggest color chips that are typically associated with a scheme that has buttercup yellow as its anchor color.
When you yourself have whittled down your color options, go through the color chips or swatches in different types of light including natural light at different times of the day and in varying degrees of artificial light. Even then, this color chip process is merely to get a concept of paints that you will sample in greater swaths of color. Hardly any 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 over a white background.
Color Changes Keep in mind that large surface areas make any paint color look darker than the color chip. The degree of variant 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 will look like when dried out. Also, paint always looks darker once it dries. So, when you finally apply the paint, don't stress if the color doesn't look right at first. Hold out until it dries.
If you are zeroing in on your final colors, paint a 2 x 3 foot poster board or fabric with the anchor color and stick it throughout the house so as to view it in different light and near different colored carpets and furniture.
Space and Color Colors can affect the way you perceive the size of a room. Warm colors like reds, yellows, and oranges can make a space seem to be smaller because they can offer a cozy feeling to the space. The so called cool colors like blues and greens appear to recede from you, making a room appear larger than it really is. If you really want to make a room seem large select a vintage standby like a shade of white (there are dozens) or a neutral color.
Size Estimation 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, glass windows, and other openings. Add every one 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 surface twice.
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