Four Tools for Choosing Colors

Home Décor taught us about different types of color schemes and provided inspiration for a previous blog post, and we're back to share some tools to help you pick the specific colors to bring your vision to life. It was helpful to learn about monochromatic, complementary and triadic color schemes in that earlier post, but we'd like to make it even easier to pick the perfect color scheme for your home by sharing the following links:

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June 30, 2009

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Tips on Choosing Color Schemes for Your Home

Have you ever imagined how a certain color scheme will look in your home and decided to go forward with it only to end up having your home looking entirely different than you originally imagined? Never again. These great tips we found on this Home Decor site will help you prepare better next time you decide to paint. First, consider a color scheme. Here are three common ones:

• Monochromatic: Uses only one color throughout. Variety is introduc » READ MORE

April 21, 2009

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Color advice

While most of us may not spend a lot of time thinking about room color, it affects every day of our lives. Room color can influence our mood and our thoughts. Colors affect people in many ways, depending upon one’s age, gender, ethnic background or local climate. Certain colors or groups of colors tend to get a similar reaction from most people - the overall difference being in the shade or tones used. So it’s important to choose wisely. » READ MORE

February 28, 2009

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To many different metal finishes in Kitchen?

I have a Kitchen/dining room with apple green walls, white cabinets, and some red accents. I originally wanted to have cast iron/black as the metal on the light above the table, curtain rods, etc but I do not like the look of black hardware on the cupboards. Can I use a brushed stainless steel or other matte silver hardware or is that introducing to many colors/finishes? (Note, I do not have stainless steel appliances - they are white)

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March 08, 2008

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curtain color

Is there some rule of thumb for deciding on the color of curtains?  I've seen white on white, dark on dark, dark on light... in magazines they all look good but I can't seem to figure it out.  I have navajo white walls.  It seems that whatever color combination I choose I feel like there is room to criticize.  If it choose something similar to my walls, "it's too much like the wall".  If it's too dark there's too much contrast.  If I choose somet » READ MORE

May 11, 2007

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Tools That Help You Choose Colors...for anything!

I love color.  But in my house -- using color is a relatively recent development.   So, I've been searching around for things that would help me figure out what might work, what definitely won't when choosing color.

When I bought my house the former owner had painted the kitchen and dining room the EXACT colors of Blockbuster -- electric blue and yellow.  It's made me cautious!  <grin> 

So this might help you if you're like me and are trying » READ MORE

February 02, 2007

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