Room Color Schemes

Attractive room color schemes can be the biggest visual asset of your home's interior - more important than furnishings or architecture.

If you're looking for inspiration, or for a selection of colors to paint a room, check out the following decorating color schemes and ideas for room colors.

French Room Colors

French Room Color Schemes:
All the colors for a "French" room!  Interior color schemes in France vary greatly by region, so you'll find information about them on different pages:

• French Country Decorating On A Shoestring
• French Country Colors
• It's also worth having a look at the pictures on the 'intro' page about French Country Decorating Ideas to get a feel for this simple yet sophisticated approach to color.
  

Tuscan
Room Colors

Tuscan Room Color Schemes:
Tuscany has glorious, earthy colors to paint a room - or the whole house - and fill it with the warmth and magic of a Tuscan summer.

Draw your inspiration from the colors of the countryside, the ancient homes and palazzi, and add color accents reminiscent of fresh, ripe fruits and flowers in full bloom.

All the pictures are original photos I took on a working trip to Tuscany. When you're done reading the page about Tuscan Colors, cast an eye over the photos on the other 'Tuscan' pages as well, starting with Tuscan Decorating Style Secrets, for more color inspiration.

Neutral
Room Colors

Neutral Room Colors:
Neutrals are an excellent foundation for most decorating color schemes. The more you know about them, the better use you can make of them!

Visit the Neutral Color Palettes page for a taster of the possibilities - and pitfalls - of decorating with neutral color schemes.

Neutrals are so important that I've written an e-book about how to use them. It's full of illustrated room color schemes, and takes you through different aspects of using neutral colors to paint/decorate a room, including themes like

• How to recognize what type of neutral color you need
• How to mix neutral color palettes
• Examples of neutral decorating color schemes, and
• Examples of neutral color palettes with added color.
  
  

The e-book is free, and comes with a subscription to my (equally free) e-zine, Dream Home News, which gets published every two months. Check out the e-book, Stylish Neutrals, here!

Or, if you're in a rush, go straight to the signup form in the top right hand corner of this page.

Monochromatic
Room Colors

Monochromatic Room Colors:
A seriously Monochromatic Room Color palette can only be based on a single (="mono") color (="chroma").

However, as you'll see when you follow the link, you may end up with really weird room color schemes if you stick to this rule. So this page is about
a) understanding the rules, and
b) breaking them properly ;-)

Bedroom Colors

Bedroom Color Schemes:
Create the exact bedroom you want and/or need, by infusing it with the right selection of colors.

Do you want your bedroom to be a zen-like retreat, or a sumptuous boudoir? Do you want it to exude sexy, seductive energy, or heavenly calm? Do you want to use it as a workspace during the day, or is your bedroom the ultimate fantasy space?

There are colors for all of these, and the page about Bedroom Color Schemes takes one 'model' bedroom through a series of color changes. You will see how different it makes a room look if you just change the room color scheme. (For yet another perspective on bedrooms, check out the antique Swiss Alpine homes on the page about Country Style Bedrooms).

Choosing
Color Schemes

Choosing Decorating Color Schemes:
It's easier said than done, and I can't tell you how many people get stuck and frustrated in the process.

So here's a page about Choosing Colors To Paint A Room. It takes you, step by step through the process of assessing

• what colors you really like
• what colors you already have in the room (checklist)
• what the room 'needs' (checklist), and
• how to pull all of the above together.

There's also a step-by-step guide to making sure you get the Right Paint Color For Your Walls - have a look at that if you want to refine your mastery of creating color schemes that work.

Paint Color Ideas

Ideas For Decorating Color Schemes:
If you're stumped for paint color ideas and don't know where to start looking, here are two pages for you.

Interior Paint Color Ideas gives you an idea how to 'collect' color inspiration, and specifically, what to do with that inspiration once you've found it.

The page has three full-color examples of incidental (holiday) snaps that were turned into working room color schemes.

Interior Color Scheme Ideas is about all the weird and wonderful places you can go looking for color ideas. If you follow every tip on that page, there's no way you're not going to end up with perfect room color schemes.