Color is one of the most important elements in your home interior. All sorts of research has been done on color psychology and how color affects us.
Once you’ve started to see a pattern of what you seem to be attracted too while shopping and looking through books you should put some time into specifically looking at colors. At this point don’t worry where you will put these colors just
start pulling together a family of 3-7 colors. You can have light and dark shades
of the same colors but you should have at least 3 basic colors. Some colors will be more important than others and these are decisions that you can make later.
First it’s just important to start the process.
There are different families of color and you can get an idea by looking at samples in the paint stores, or even Home Depot and Lowe’s have a pretty good selection of colors in the paint department that will help you to start pulling some colors together.
There are also some on line sources like Colourlovers
http://www.colourlovers.com/
And Paint companies have some good suggestions for colors palettes too.
http://www.behr.com/
http://www.sherwin-williams.com/do_it_yourself/index.jsp
Really feeling comfortable Wikipedia has lots of info on the subject of color.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_symbolism_and_psychology
Just remember to give yourself time. Get a few colors that you like and tape them up around your house in places that you will see them everyday---like the bathroom or the kitchen---maybe even your front door!
Once you’ve started to see a pattern of what you seem to be attracted too while shopping and looking through books you should put some time into specifically looking at colors. At this point don’t worry where you will put these colors just
start pulling together a family of 3-7 colors. You can have light and dark shades
of the same colors but you should have at least 3 basic colors. Some colors will be more important than others and these are decisions that you can make later.
First it’s just important to start the process.
There are different families of color and you can get an idea by looking at samples in the paint stores, or even Home Depot and Lowe’s have a pretty good selection of colors in the paint department that will help you to start pulling some colors together.
There are also some on line sources like Colourlovers
http://www.colourlovers.com/
And Paint companies have some good suggestions for colors palettes too.
http://www.behr.com/
http://www.sherwin-williams.com/do_it_yourself/index.jsp
Really feeling comfortable Wikipedia has lots of info on the subject of color.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_symbolism_and_psychology
Just remember to give yourself time. Get a few colors that you like and tape them up around your house in places that you will see them everyday---like the bathroom or the kitchen---maybe even your front door!
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