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Color Scheme Help
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Take a look around your home at your personal possessions and in your closet, make a note of the colors and combinations you like and seem to have a majority of: Favorite outfits, jackets, china etc.
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Be observant and look out for color combinations that work together naturally. Nature provides the very best ideas—flowers, fruits, trees, sky, grass, tree bark, birds, water, sand, seashells and so on and on it goes. These are wonderful starting points for color combinations.
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Make a scrapbook collection of paint samples and magazine clippings to help you define your style and color taste. Very soon a consistent theme and color palette will emerge.
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Try out sample paint colors on a consistent background to get an idea of how they’ll look in your home, or how the color actually appeals to you once its dry. You may determine you really don’t like the color that much, when you see a large patch of it dry. However, you may discover it’s just perfect!
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Make a scrapbook collection of your choices as you make them for your home, including paint samples, fabric samples, wallpaper samples etc. Mix and match patterns, solids, stripes, plaids etc. until you find a combination you’re happy with.
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Take your scrapbook with you when you go shopping to match a color. This will take the guesswork out of trying to memorize a color and help you find an accurate match.
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Ask to borrow samples of wallpapers and fabrics, taking them to your home so you can check them in the natural light of your home.
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Learn to trust your own eyes and instincts. However convinced you are that you will not like a particular color or shade, or that two particular colors won’t work together, the bottom line is: If you are attracted to what you see and like it, your on the right track!
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