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Color as a particle of
interior design
Color is a very
important decorating tool. It is the first thing you notice
about a room and its furnishings. Color has the power to
change the shape and size of furnishings as well as the shape
and size of the room itself. This key to your decorating plan
is exciting and fun to work with, but frightening, too. To
have a beautiful home, you do not have to worry about trends.
Color trends will come and go. The people who live in a home
make it beautiful by choosing colors that reflect their likes
and their personalities. The trick is to blend those colors
you like into a pleasing combination. |
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Present furnishings
Suppose you plan to keep all the furniture in a room, but you
want a new window treatment. If there are one or two printed
fabrics in the room, select a plain fabric that brings out one
of the colors in the prints. If everything in the room--the
floors, the sofa, and the chairs--has no pattern, then you
might choose a printed fabric with the colors from the sofa,
chair, and floor in it.
Nature
Look around you in the flower gardens, the woods, the fields,
and the streams. Nature has the best combinations of colors
you will ever find.
Accessories
A picture or a vase with nice colors may give you an idea for
a color combination.
Personal likes
If you like certain colors together, you might want to use
them in a room. Find a printed fabric with colors you like.
Use the printed fabric as a guide to help you in choosing
other colors to go in the room. Pick out the colors from the
printed fabric for the sofa, chairs, draperies, etc.
Color wheel
Colors that are next to each other or colors that are directly
across from each other on the color wheel can be the basis for
a color scheme.
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