Choosing the Right Colours for Your Home
Most of you have trouble selecting the right colours to paint the walls of your homes. The root causes of this are because most of you are not able to mentally visualise the outcome, you’ve experienced that the colour charts provided by paint companies usually turn out a different shade than the colour on the chart, or you’re just too timid to make that bold decision.
If you want to have bold colours added to your living room or bedroom then here’s the rule of thumb: Choose 3 or 4 colours that you would like for a room. These are the colours you will apply to your walls and furnishings. 1 colour must be the dominant colour in the room and another colour should be used half as much as the dominant colour. The 3rd and 4th colours are used sparingly, as accents. If you’ve already gotten furniture in the room, then it may be wise to select a shade that is similar or complements the fabric colours on your sofa. Remember that contrasting colours will accentuate the structural details of your room but extreme contrasts will just mean that your guests won’t be able to enjoy the effort you’ve put into the room because they’ll be too distracted with the colours that surround them.
Here are some useful links to picking the right colours for your home:
Colour ideas from apartment-ideas.com
Five easy steps to choosing the perfect paint colour, by purecontemporary.com
Behr.com has an application which allows you to upload any photograph of your place and replace colours of any item/walls within the photograph to provide you an actual visualisation of your pad. Check out Behr.com’s Colorsmart Tool here. The downside to this excellent tool is that it requires a paid subscription.
All is not lost. If you’re keen on simulation but do not want to pay subscription for an online service then use Adobe’s Photoshop to perform colour replacement on your photos of your home! It’s easy- here are some links that teach the ‘colour replacement’ technique to help you get cracking simulating and testing colours for your home.
If you only want to simulate colours for furnishings in your home then may want to do so using the Icovia Space Planner.
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2 comments
Yup i always believe that colors play a good important role in providing the right mood/settings to a home. That’s why we had a tough time choosing paint color and wallpaper for our apartment. Good job with the site
Thanks, Cas! Well, with photo editing tools being very intuitive and user friendly these days, you can simulate colour choices on your PC to help choose the right colours for your home.
I chose a bright orange for the feature wall that’s facing my dining and it turned out great! Be bold with your colour choices. Paint is something you can always undo though one too many trial and error runs will cost ya quite a bit.
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