The document provides guidance on designing with color for interior spaces. It discusses starting points like magazines and store displays, understanding color theory using a color wheel, choosing a palette that fits one's budget and tastes, adding color to furniture and accessories, matching different shades and hues, sampling potential color combinations, making an action plan, and getting feedback from others when finalizing a design. The overall goal is to help readers confidently use color in their home design.
The document provides guidance on designing with color for interior spaces. It discusses starting points like magazines and store displays, understanding color theory using a color wheel, choosing a palette that fits one's budget and tastes, adding color to furniture and accessories, matching different shades and hues, sampling potential color combinations, making an action plan, and getting feedback from others when finalizing a design. The overall goal is to help readers confidently use color in their home design.
The document provides guidance on designing with color for interior spaces. It discusses starting points like magazines and store displays, understanding color theory using a color wheel, choosing a palette that fits one's budget and tastes, adding color to furniture and accessories, matching different shades and hues, sampling potential color combinations, making an action plan, and getting feedback from others when finalizing a design. The overall goal is to help readers confidently use color in their home design.
Getting Started • Where to begin? • Knowing what you like • Magazines • Friends’ houses • Store displays
• Exploring how color feels
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Understanding Color • Color wheel primer • Tones and hues • Saturation • What’s in a name • Cerulean or Azurite • Verdigris or Malachite • Vermilion or Realgar
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Picking a Palette • What colors are your room now? • What colors do you like? • What colors do you dislike? • What’s your budget?
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Colorizing Your Room • Where to add color • Furniture and accessory changes • How to match colors • Does verdigris work with Realgar?
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Sample • So you like verdigris; what next? • Check the color wheel • Work with the swatches
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Pulling It All Together • Make up an action plan • Give it a rest, then revisit it • Call in your reinforcements • Friends • Family • Professionals