Finding The Best Color Palette For Your Walls
Unless you were born with a natural eye for all things design, color, and décor, interior decorating your home probably leaves you stressed. The fact that styles come and go in popularity and even colors are deemed either passé, or trending doesn't make it any easier. Additionally, decorating magazines and popular home décor websites offer conflicting advice.
Nowhere is this conflicting advice perhaps more glaring than when it comes to deciding which color you should paint your rooms. One source will insist all the rooms should be painted a neutral color, especially if you plan on selling your home within the next five years. Other sources — especially paint companies — encourage you to paint the rainbow. After all, if all they sold were various shades of the same drab builder's beige, their profits wouldn't be too impressive. Here's how to decide what is best for your home.
Is Your Style Traditional?
Assess your most favorite furniture and decorative pieces. Are they whimsical and trendy, or are they pieces that are classic and can stand the test of time? Next, open your closet. Do you see a wide array of colorful clothing, or is it primarily a palette of gray, taupe, brown, and black, with maybe a splash of the occasional red sweater or navy blazer? The answers to these questions will help you determine your comfort zone when it comes to color in your life.
Make A Monochromatic Color Scheme Exciting
If you decide a neutral backdrop is the best way for your home and personality, you can add interest by choosing several shades of the same color. When you look at the paint chip palettes at the store, there are usually a series of four or five colors on one strip of paper. The colors move from darker to light. The darkest color can be used for the woodwork, the center shade for the walls, and the lightest shade for the ceiling. By looking at the next two paint chips in the color series — one lower, one higher — you can repeat this process with slightly lighter or darker tones in the other rooms of the house.
Coordinate Color With Ease
After assessing your current furnishings and wardrobe, you may feel a colorful home will better suit your style. But while you may love the colors lime green, dark burgundy, and burnt orange, they aren't going to go together no matter how hard you try. Choose two or three of your favorite colors that do coordinate with one another, as though you were putting together an outfit. Then, just as you were choosing a monochromatic scheme, choose a darker accent shade and lighter ceiling shade, moving from room to room by varying the same palettes.
For more information, contact a company like Walls-N-All Painting.