Choosing A Color
Scheme
By Tammy Jo Schoppet
Founder of Rental Decorating Digest
If you feel helpless when it comes to
picking and blending colors, your answer could be as far away as your
nearest pillow. Here is a quick way to create a color scheme
for your home with PICK - SEE -LMD .
PICK a Pattern: Starting
with a pattern is the easiest way to create a color palette for your
decor. Choose a pattern from any object you already have and love such
as a pillow, picture or piece of furniture. This will be your color palette
!
SEE 3 Colors:
Select a light, medium and dark color from your pattern to be used as
your foundation. You may want to go to a hardware store and select color
chips from the paint department that match your pattern to carry with
you in case you come across a great find and need to know if it matches.
LMD: Light, Medium and Dark
- How you use these colors can affect the overall appearance of your
room.
- Light- Is the Background- this is usually easy
to achieve since most rentals are equipped with light to off-white
walls.
- Medium- Large furniture and windows -
Since the color of these objects will blend with the above lighter
selection, the medium furniture will ground the room and give
it a foundation.
- Darker- Accessories. Since your eye is
drawn to a darker more intense color you will be able to arrange you
accessories in a manner to guide the eye flowing through your room.
PICK - SEE - LMD Use it
whenever you are trying to pull together a color coordinated room!
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