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Free Interior Design Ideas
Find information to help you creatively choosing colors for the paint in the interior rooms of your home.
Learn some free tips and find creative resources for home decorating ideas.
Tips for Choosing Color Schemes
Free Interior Design Idea One: When trying to come up with a color scheme for your home it
can sometimes be challenging and difficult to know which color and type of paint to buy. When it comes time
to figure out color ideas do so when you are in a good mood. Mood has a lot to do with how comfortable you
will feel with your choice once you incorporate it into your home. If you finalize your paint colors when you
are feeling off balance, you may end up uneasy in your home once you have it decorated.
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Idea Two: A fantastic way to get ideas is to spend time browsing through a fabric store. Notice
what colors you are attracted to. What colors make you feel nurtured and secure? What ones make you feel
relaxed, or which make you feel restless or uneasy? Notice what they feel like when you combine them together.
This type of creative process will help you narrow down your choices. You will most likely find a few fabric
swatches that you are drawn to. If you like, it is a good idea to purchase a yard or so of the material so
that you can drape it around you home. This way you can live with it for a while and match it with other
decorating accessories you find. This will help you narrow down your color scheme.
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Three: After you have explored fabric and made a couple color choices its time to develop a color
theme. Let us do some more exploring. Take your fabric swatch with you and go shopping. Browse through art
galleries, and home decorating stores for decorating accessories. Look at throw rugs and decorator pillows.
Sometimes a piece of art, or the colors in an exquisite throw rug will help you decide on your color theme.
Don't worry if you feel like you have to many colors or not enough. By the time you finish our next step
your colors will begin to come together.
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Decorating Tip Four: It's time to visit the paint store. Many paint stores have fantastic computer
programs to help you mix and match colors. Take your fabric swatches and the pictures of the decorator accessories
you were drawn to with you. As you explore pick out a primary color that you can envision as your main focus
color. You are looking for a primary color and also two complementary colors. These colors will enhance each
other and are also included in your favorite colors. Next you can work with the hues and values of your secondary
colors to get the right balance.
You want your secondary colors to enliven each other, rather than dull each. Once you have three colors that
work well together you are well on your way. The secondary colors can be be used sparsely when decorating.
Perhaps one of your secondary colors and your primary color will be equally balanced and your other secondary
color will added with a touch of flare. How you breakdown the colors is individual choice, rather than a rules
based decision.
Here is a great resource to locate many home decorating accessories for your home and garden.
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