Paint chip cards allow homeowners to select a color scheme more easily.
Choosing a color scheme for a room or whole house is an important decision. The colors you choose will influence how you feel about the home and how you feel inside the room. Often people will begin decorating by choosing a neutral paint color for the walls and neutral or safe pieces of furniture. This leads to bland and blah rooms that are safe but don't reflect the dynamic and interesting people who actually live in the house. Choosing a more interesting and reflective scheme is not hard and you will love the results.
Instructions
1. Visit a paint store and acquire a set of paint chip cards. Each paint company produces these cards and places individual cards in wall displays for homeowners. Often they will give you an entire set that is bound together or you can purchase a set for a small fee.
2. Examine artwork and rugs that you purchased because you really liked them. Don't look at items given to you, as those pieces are less likely to reflect the real you. Set aside the pieces you find pleasing. Don't worry if they seem very different from each other.
3. Go to your closet and look at your collection of clothing as a color palette. These are colors you selected in a store. Note colors that show up often and are the same as some of the colors in your selected artwork and rug choices. Use the paint color chips to begin sorting out your most frequently purchased colors.
4. Visit a fabric store and browse for fabrics you like. Select two to five pieces and purchase a few inches. Try to get enough to include the color identifiers woven into the fabric along the selvage edges.
5. Assemble all of your pieces of art, rugs, clothing colors and fabrics. Pull out the colors on the paint chips that represent these items and narrow your choices down based on the feelings generated as you examine each piece. When you center on one item or set of colors that really attract you, set the others aside and focus on that item.
6. Look at the item closely. Note the main color and each additional color. Art often has many colors, and so do rugs and fabrics. Start over with your paint chips and match up a bunch of these colors. Select four to 10 colors and order small cans of paint in those colors. Tape off 2-ft.-square boxes on your walls and paint a color in each box. Label each box as you paint. Allow the paint to dry for 8 hours, then examine the squares at different hours during the day. The colors will change as the light changes. Note the ones that you like the best.
7. Paint a larger section of the wall in each color if you still need to refine your choices. Note that each color has both lighter and darker shades and you can use a lighter shade of a color on the ceiling and a darker shade under a chair rail. See if the colors work together. Bring in your inspiration piece and place it near the wall colors. Ask yourself if it works. When it works, you have your personal color scheme.
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