Complimentary Colors The procedure of picking paint colors for your home may appear totally subjective--you simply pick the colors you prefer. That is merely 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 decided on work well together? Do they compliment furnishing, carpeting, and window treatments already in place? Picking paint colors is actually part skill and part science. Let's focus on the science part first.
Using the Color Wheel The color wheel arranges the color spectrum in a circle. It really is a good 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 created 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 make a tertiary color--in this circumstance, turquoise.
Now that you've got a color wheel before you, make use of it to help you envision certain color combinations. An analogous plan requires neighboring colors that share an underlying hue.
Complementary colors lie complete opposite each other on the color wheel and frequently work well in concert. 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. The same complements in varying intensities can make attractive, soothing combinations. A double complementary color scheme involves yet another set of opposites, such as green-blue and red-orange.
Alternatively, you can opt for a monochromatic scheme that involves using one color in a number of intensities. This ensures a harmonious color plan. When developing a monochromatic design, 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 need a more complex palette of three or 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 part of its opposite side of the wheel. For example, rather than teaming purple with yellow, transfer the mix to purple with orange-yellow and yellow-green.
Finally, 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 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 fall into both of these basic camps:
Harmonious or analogous; strategies, derived from neighboring colors on the wheel less than halfway around.
Contrasting or complementary; plans, derived from colors that are directly opposite on the wheel.
Interior Colors Don't just choose one color; think in terms of picking a color scheme. Survey your furniture, curtains, window treatments, and carpets, and take note which colors might go with 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 don't want to call attention to it. The same will additionally apply to other trim, such as home window casings and couch rail.
How about where the walls meet the ceiling? Will you install crown molding or various 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 will also need to look for the level of surface 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 important because the sheen of paint impacts the color. A rule of thumb says that walls usually get flat or eggshell surface finishes whereas ceilings are almost invariably coated with a flat finish. Trim is typically decorated with a semi-gloss or high gloss. These finishes are stronger and easier to clean than duller 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 colors will look like once applied. You need to do more than take a look at color chips to get a true sense of your colors... but they are a good place to start. In fact, 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 usually 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 different types of light including natural light at differing times of the 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 bigger swaths of color. Hardly any professional designers select from chips, even though they may start their color selection from chips. If they do examine chips, they examine them individually over a white background.
Color Changing Keep in mind that large surface areas make any paint color show up darker than the color chip. The degree of variant is usually up to two shades. In the event that you select 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 panic if the color doesn't look right initially. Hold out until it dries.
When you are zeroing in on your final colors, paint a 2 x 3 foot poster board or fabric with the anchor color and place it throughout the house so as to see it in various light and near different colored carpets and rugs and furniture.
Color and Space Colors can affect how you perceive the size of a room. Warm colors like reds, yellows, and oranges can make a space appear smaller because they provide 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 an area seem large go with a vintage standby such as a shade of white (there are dozens) or a neutral color.
Estimating Area Size While 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 area occupied by the entrance doors, windows, and other openings. Add every one of the measurements together to obtain a total square footage of the surface you must paint. If you are applying two layers which is normal for most paint jobs, you'll be painting the area twice.
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