STOP, DON’T PAINT YOUR WALLS. To select wall paint color before you select other decorative items is wrong. The color you select for your walls should be based upon all decorative items in a room such as flooring, furniture, and most important fabrics.There are two very good reasons to select your fabrics first:
Fabric with patterns have more than one color, use the colors in your patterns as a guide in selecting wall color in your room.
Fabric selections for the most part are found on upholstered items, bedding and throw pillows. Stores have a limited inventory on the fabrics they stock, however; home improvement stores have unlimited paint colors they can create.
Here are a few tips to make your home color perfect.
Use no more than three colors per room. Neutral colors such as white, black, beige, or brown are not included.
Use colors from your fabrics to select colors for your surfaces.
Colors such as candy apple red has weight and is considered heavy, use these colors on smaller surfaces.
If your room appears to be tilted it is because there is to much color on one side of the room, distribute the colors more evenly.
All colors have many shades; make sure the shades you use in a room are the same. Mixing the wrong shades of blues can give your room a case of the BLUES.
When selecting paint colors from the color chips in the home improvement stores, be aware the sample is substantially smaller in size than your walls. If your selection is bright you might want to select two shades lighter on the chart.
Cecil says, “Colors can be the most powerful statement in your room, make sure you select colors that you love and can live with.”
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Using Color
The thing to know about color in a room is it is different than wearing your favorite color of clothing.
Number 1: Your room is hopefully larger than your body. Number 2: Full ensembles of clothing are approximately five items whereas a room has approximately fifteen items. The largest surface of color in a room is the walls. If you want bright colored walls go for it, just remember you have fifteen or more items to balance the color.
Bathrooms & Kitchens
Do not be robbed of drawer space in your kitchen. A drawer can be placed in every lower cabinet where there is a door. Drawers are very important in good kitchen design because drawers house silverware, cooking utensils, dish towels, placemats, containers for wrapping and storage items such as foil paper, and most important a junk drawer. For maximum silverware storage, look for a double decker compartment in your local home improvement stores.
Research shows that all furniture comes in standard sizes. Get It Right! furniture placement patterns were designed with this in mind. With Get It Right! you can:
- Plan your new space before you purchase furniture.
- Rearrange your present space before moving your furniture.
- Buy the right size furniture and avoid frustrating returns.
Every room in a home has an accent wall. The accent wall is usually the first wall viewed when entering the room or the anchor wall for the sofa or bed.
An accent wall is perfect for carrying a different surface than what’s on other walls in the room. Be adventurous and create your accent with either a change in paint color, texture, wallpaper, faux wall finishes or molding.
