Room Color Schemes: Great Interior Design
Colors & Decorating Color Schemes
Attractive room color schemes can be the biggest visual asset of your home - more important than furnishings or architecture.
Choosing
Color Schemes
Choosing Room Color Schemes:
It's easier said than done, and I can't tell you how many people get stuck and frustrated in the process.
The page about Choosing Interior Design Colors 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.
Interior Design Colors 101 is a step-by-step, illustrated guide to choosing room color schemes and interior wall colors:
- how to do a color inventory,
- how to deal with colors that don't fit in,
- how to create decorating color schemes from scratch,
- how to use neutral colors intelligently to make decorating easier.
To help you create room color schemes that work, there's also a step-by-step guide to choosing the right
Interior Paint Color combinations -
have a look at that if you're not sure how to put interior design colors together in a room.
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 a few pages for you.
Interior Paint Color Ideas is about 'collecting' color inspiration, and specifically, what to do with this inspiration once you've found it.
The article about researching Decorating Color Scheme ideas walks you through all the resources that could give you color scheme ideas.
And the page about Great
Color Combinations has a color combination chart - not just for room color
schemes and interior design colors, but for any occasion where you might need color decorating ideas:
giftwrap, table settings, or a craft project.
French
Room Colors
French Room Color Schemes:
Need decorating color schemes for a "French" room? Interior design colors in France vary greatly by region,
so you'll find information about French interior paint color combinations on different pages:
- French Country Decorating On A Shoestring
- French Country Colors
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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 to an earth tone color scheme.
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 neutrals to color a room. Themes include
- How to recognize what type of neutral color you need
- How to mix neutral color palettes
- Examples of neutral decorating color schemes, and
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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 Color Scheme
A seriously Monochromatic Color Scheme
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 seriously weird room color schemes if you stick to
this rule. So this page is about using interior design colors in loosely monochromatic color palettes. In other words:
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 interior design 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 room color schemes for all of these, and the page about
Bedroom Decorating Colors takes one 'model' bedroom through six color palettes (it includes seven
additional bedroom color ideas, but those are not illustrated). And there's more: the
Bedroom Color Schemes page
contains another five bedroom color ideas - you will see how different it makes
a room look if all you change is the interior design color scheme. (For yet another perspective on bedrooms, check out the antique Swiss Alpine homes
on the page about Country Style Bedrooms).
Living Room
Colors
Living Room Color Schemes: Living room colors can make or break one of the most-used rooms in the house!
You'll find 6½ color schemes for living rooms (including plenty of living room paint ideas) on the Living Room Colors page, and three more color schemes for living rooms in the article about Living Room Makeovers.
Also, do check out other Dream Home Decorators' Living Room Before & Afters for more color ideas!
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