Color
Humans can roughly distinguish about 10 million different colors. With so many combinations, it can be easy to mess up putting colors in your home and suddenly, it does not look as good as that one bedroom on Pinterest that had a similar scheme. Knowing how to work color and what looks good and what doesn’t can be crucial in taking your house from regular home to an envied design. Here are easy ways to use a color wheel to design your home.
The color wheel.
Work the color wheel
The color wheel can be your best friend when it comes to deciding a color theme for any design because the color wheel is the law for what works well in a scheme and what does not.
Complementary colors are colors that are across from each other on the wheel. For instance, beiges, browns, and blues work together because they are complementary. Similarly, pink and green also work well together, and can look good when used in muted tones.
Color
Monochromatic colors are essentially shades of one color. This can be especially helpful for accents. As an example, one wall could be red and the curtains, pillows and rug would be different shades of red so as to not look harsh against the other relatively neutral environment. Using different shades can keep a room from getting boring, lessen a harsh color, or make a calm shade like blue even more relaxing.
Analogous colors are colors that are on similar sides of the wheel and usually fall into the warm or cold categories. Warm shades include orange, yellow, red, whereas cold colors are purple, blue, or green. Using analogous colors is an easy way to tie a room’s design together. It is also a way to keep the room from looking too rigid in its design – for instance, if the accent pillows were blue and the paintings on the wall are purple, the theme is clear without everything needing to be the same shade.
A green couch could make a colorful statement.
Whether you want to have one color and a mostly neutral design or many options, using the wheel can be a helpful tool in deciding the swatches you could use. Once you decide on a scheme, stop by a Baumgartner’s location and one of our knowledgeable sales associates can help you find the perfect accents or furniture to match the vision in your head.