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Designing with Color using Accessories for Proportion
When you use color successfully, it makes your room look as if an interior decorator assembled your room. Creating a color scheme that simply does not work can make your home present itself as though there was no plan to it at all. When you plan your room are you taking care to employ the introduction of color in the most beneficial way possible? You punctuate your color palette with accoutrement.
Home decor wall art can range from paintings or contemporary wall clock to room dividers, sculptures to vases, rugs, baskets to bowls, and pillow to throws. They are a fantastic way to surround yourself with the things that you enjoy. It is also a wonderful chance to coordinate the color palette so that the tones are harmonious.
Where the color appears in your room’s design is fundamental because it makes a room feel balanced and comfortable. All color combinations are visible on the color wheel, a tool used by artists and designers for many, many years.
* A monochromatic color combination uses shades of a individual color like cream, beige and brown. Some color schemes are more easy to use than others, and this is one of the easiest. You do have to take care when decorating with a monochromatic palette to keep your design from being ordinary.
* Complementary color schemes tend to be lively, because they are constructed from opposite colors, and you can find them across from one another on the color wheel. When you bring to mind complementary colors and design, the strongest example is the red and green of Christmas. Just by making the colors a little less intense this color palette works effectively. While red and green might make you think of Christmas, mixing rust and moss certainly do not. When bold colors are used together, this color scheme commands attention. If you are not careful you may lose the essence of it.
* Commence with a single color to define your own split complementary hues. Now you can use one color from each side of the complementary color. This scheme is slightly more subtle than the complementary color scheme but can go wrong if you use dulled down versions of the warmer colors. By the same token, choosing a warm undertone for the main contrasting color and combining it with two cool tones will frame the warm tone.
* To design a look with analogous colors, you can have any three colors next to each other on the color wheel. This is a color scheme that is almost as easy to pull off as a monochromatic scheme. This type of color scheme functions if you keep it clean and keep your tones consistent.
* Triadic color themes can be a loose or tight color palette, but they are always spaced equally far away from the base color. Unless the colors are a little subdued, these color schemes can be the hardest to balance, because they can become overpowering. Frequently used in room designs for children, this color combo is sometimes used for kitchens too.
If you wish balance color throughout your current design, you need to have a good grasp on your existing color scheme. Now, select the proper balance of accessories to create a harmonious look. For example, assume you are combining colors in a split complementary scheme in your bedroom. The walls are saturated in olive green. This highlights the main color complement. The rust-red carpet is actually your complementary color. The bedspread is just a little lighter than the carpet hue. To balance this color scheme out you will need throw pillows on the bed that are mauve. Add art wall plaques on the wall that include mauve elements along with the other colors. When hanging watercolor paintings use a mauve matte for the best look. Selecting mauve in the lamp shades gives a great way to include them into this bedroom. Window coverings might include all three colors if needed to tie up the loose color threads.
Remember this one important thing when using accessories to balance a color scheme. It is important to understand which color is dominant. Is that really the aesthetic that you are trying to achieve? Then incorporate accessories that support the dominant color. But if you wish to make that color fade, then use accessories such as throw pillows, paintings, baskets, and even tiny blanket throws to create a contrasting color focal point.
Illusion Kinetic sculpture by David C. Roy © 2005