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Can’t decide about the color scheme? Let the room decide. What is your dominate pattern? Is it in the drapes, the upholstery, a Southwest rug? This is ever so much easier and less expensive than painting the walls some really super color and finding that nothing in the room really goes with it.
Let’s say your southwest rug has reds, greens, earth tones. For example take the 60% red, 30% greens and 10% earth tones, or maybe 60% green, 30% earth & 10% red, just make the 60 that color that best says “you.”
Sounds simple, so what’s the catch? Colors are driven by the market… remember the olive green and harvest gold of the 60’s, the 80’s seemed to have a blue undertone to everything. The reds had a cool “blueness” to them, and the greens could be best be called sea foam (green with blue undertone). Thankfully today we enjoy a trendy undertone of yellow, thus producing “sage” greens, “hot” reds and “lilac” blues. Keep this in mind as you select your color scheme.
Let’s say your southwest rug has reds, greens, earth tones. For example take the 60% red, 30% greens and 10% earth tones, or maybe 60% green, 30% earth & 10% red, just make the 60 that color that best says “you.”
Sounds simple, so what’s the catch? Colors are driven by the market… remember the olive green and harvest gold of the 60’s, the 80’s seemed to have a blue undertone to everything. The reds had a cool “blueness” to them, and the greens could be best be called sea foam (green with blue undertone). Thankfully today we enjoy a trendy undertone of yellow, thus producing “sage” greens, “hot” reds and “lilac” blues. Keep this in mind as you select your color scheme.
The Window Bonnet cornice pictured at the top takes a part of the pattern in the fabric from the sofa to cover the center. It is a great match for the color scheme and "feel" of the room, see more pictures at this link:
Cheers,
Jan
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