If you have read my “about me”… you’ll know I don’t have a favorite color.
I have just one color that I don’t care much about… I am not a big fan of purple.
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I believe most of us love color, I believe most of us are a little bit uneasy or perhaps don’t know how to use it. So today I am going to share with you some great color combinations that simply work!
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In order to use color we need to UNDERSTAND color.
First let’s take a minute and look at the color wheel…
If you don’t want your space to be SUPER HAPPY but you don’t want it to be SUPER PEACEFUL you can even mix the emotions that both colors bring… and have a perfect fresh and cheerful space.
I think somewhere around here is where most people get lost. Do you?
They know how they want the room to feel they just don’t know how to translate that to color.
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Well, now that you have the warm and the cool down lets talk about how to use it.
To do this let me give you four basic tricks from the color wheel…Thank goodness I don’t do Interior Design anymore since I’m sharing all of my secrets 😉
Basically this is when you put 2 to 6 { I like to keep it under 4} neighbor colors of the wheel together. . That many? Well yes! . Think about having a big family color reunion. These colors will look different from each other but at the same time they have common resemblance. At the end they will look GREAT together.
Personally I consider this scheme still part of the safe zone. It will give the space a clean feeling. Not too plain not too explosive, but gives you the opportunity to highlight some areas as accessories in a different color without being over powering. . Here is a Navy Blue, Teal and Green example. I love these colors together and I want the chair and the shoes.
.Now you are far from the safe ZONE you are not entering the bold ZONE either you are right in it!A triad scheme is bold but more importantly, it’s balanced…like sweet and sour.
It’s made up of any three colors that form a triangle in the center of the wheel.
Again if you follow this rule as bold as the look will be, it will work!
I’ve been wandering around your blog a little more and am totally hooked. Following you now! And I discovered that you’re LDS- me too! I like you even more! Ha!
Thank you so much for this great Tutorial!! I’ve read several different tutorials on colour theory and with your’s it finally “clicked”!!! Yea! I feel great colours in my future!!
Great post! I don’t have a problem with decorating colors, but I’m clueless with clothing colors. You explained this so well, maybe the next time I’m clothes shopping I’ll be able to pick out something more exciting and adventurous!
Thank you so much for this! We are in the process of “narrowing down style” at our house! Right now our house is definitely a “warm” palette, but we want to change to a “cool” theme. That’s as far as I’d gotten though, so the monochromatic vs analogous vs complementary was very helpful! Thanks!
This is really great! Thank you for the tutorial
…You are welcome!
Thank you for stopping by!
I’ve been wandering around your blog a little more and am totally hooked. Following you now! And I discovered that you’re LDS- me too! I like you even more! Ha!
This is really a great tutorial. I would love for you to link it up to my Fall into Fall party that opens tonight at 8pm EST. Hope to see you there.
Thank you so much for this great Tutorial!! I’ve read several different tutorials on colour theory and with your’s it finally “clicked”!!! Yea! I feel great colours in my future!!
Go for it Cyndi…!
I love to do that with shoes and accesories.
Great post! I don’t have a problem with decorating colors, but I’m clueless with clothing colors. You explained this so well, maybe the next time I’m clothes shopping I’ll be able to pick out something more exciting and adventurous!
Thank you so much for this! We are in the process of “narrowing down style” at our house! Right now our house is definitely a “warm” palette, but we want to change to a “cool” theme. That’s as far as I’d gotten though, so the monochromatic vs analogous vs complementary was very helpful! Thanks!
How exciting!
…let me know what you ended doing when you are all done!
Beautiful photos and l love the cake. Thanks for the lesson.
Such a great post with fantastic information! I’ll be referencing this again!
This most was so informative! Thank you so much for the post! Pinning it 🙂