Determining Your Color Scheme
Collecting pictures from catalogs and magazines and organizing a collage often helps get your creative juices flowing. Also, you should visit area decorating stores for the latest ideas. Borrow paint strips and fabric swatches from the stores, which lend them out days at a time. Spread these collections around a room and mix up the colors to get a feel of every possible variation.
Room Size On the other hand, if you have a great room, darker shades will work well. Sometimes a large room appears stark and unfriendly. The use of warm, darker colors makes it cozier. Contrasting colors can also deceive the eye. In older homes where ceilings are usually taller, rooms appear even larger. Wainscoting in contrasting colors in this case can help “shrink” a large room. The walls become the center of attention and divert attention to the largeness of an area.
Light Again, it’s important to determine the light source when you are determining a “look” for a room. For instance, don’t choose a room with big trees blocking natural sunlight to be a romantic, fresh and airy bedroom. Nature will work with you or against you in certain instances. A sunny location will not entirely brighten up a home if it has small windows and low ceilings. Good lighting systems, of course, provide plenty of artificial light, but it’s more costly, too.
Lifestyle. Written by the editors of HouseNet Inc
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