How to use color schemes correctly, get inspired by art and nature, listen to ourselves, and select the most advantageous combinations of shades for the interior.
Use the color wheel
1. For monochrome space
If you want to embody a monochrome interior at home, you don’t have to choose strictly one tone and stick to it. In this case, it will take a very long time to collect materials and furniture, and the result can turn out to be flat and boring.
Take a look at the color wheel and choose the shade you want to go with. Now pay attention to the beam of flowers coming from the center it hit. All these shades you can use in your interior to create a monochrome.
If you chose a light muted tone as the main color, then for point accents you can choose dark saturated tones from the same line, and vice versa.
2. For two-color space
If you are planning to create a bright and contrasting interior, you will need two different colors that overlap well. If you already have one favorite color and you are matching it with a pair, first find it on the color wheel.
For example, you like the reddish-orange in the middle of the hue stripe. Calculate where it is from the center. Now draw a straight line from it through the center, as if dividing the entire circle in half. You will be taken to blue-green tones. Count the same number of paces from the center as the orange and you’ll find the perfect combination for it.
Such contrasting combinations of bright colors are best used in non-residential rooms: in the kitchen, in the bathroom, and in the corridor. For a bedroom or living room, choose colors closer to the center or edge of the circle, they are softer and lighter.
3. For tricolor space
In the selection of colors, you can also be guided by the rule “60/30/10”. This means that you choose the main color, which will take up a little more than half of the entire space, and add one large contrasting shade and one spot to it.
Using the color wheel, you can choose these colors like this: find the main shade that you like, and pick the remaining two at the same distance from the center, but to the right and left of it. That is three successive horizontal shades.
For example, you took lemon yellow as a base. Next to it are orange and lime tones. It will turn out not flashy, calm solution.
If the previous method seems boring, you can use the color wheel to match the three colors in a different way.
Find the shade that you have already chosen as the base. Next, mentally create an equilateral triangle with one of the vertices in the selected section of the circle. For example, you settled on orange. At the same distance from it will be red and blue shades.
In general, it is not necessary to adhere to an equilateral triangle. You can easily move two vertices one step down or up, right or left.
4. For four-color space
The most complex scheme in terms of the selection of materials, decor, and furniture that you can use since finding the right amount of matching objects and surfaces is not easy. This scheme can be useful for large rooms or complex multi-color styles, such as pop art or boho.
But finding matching shades on the color wheel, in this case, is very easy. Just draw a square or rectangle in it.
The vertices of a geometric figure will always indicate good combinations.
Pay attention to pictures and photos
It is not necessary to look for beautiful color combinations on your own. Artists and photographers have already done this for you. Here is what you can do.
- Take your favorite painting or canvas in digital form and upload it to a site that matches the pixel shades. So, by clicking on the picture, you will find out exactly what colors are combined in the image you have chosen and pick up the paint or fabric of the same tone. Look for sites that suggest Pantone colors to make it easier to navigate the store.
- Upload an image to a site that makes collages with the main shades used. This technique is more convenient if the image is complex and consists of dozens of different colors. The program will select some of the most frequently used options.
In both situations, you can also use Pantone Studio or Adobe Capture.
Get inspired by nature
You can start from the color combinations that surround you in nature, everything is harmonious in it. Try picking colors that go with your favorite season. For spring, cold bright, and light shades are suitable: light green, pink, blue, lilac, and lemon. For summer – warm and saturated: green with a hint of yellow, red, brown, and orange. For autumn – warm and in yellow-orange colors. For winter – a combination of white with blue or gray.
Take psychological tests
Do not waste time on stereotypes that red is the color of passion, and yellow is the color of intellectual activity. The psychology of color is much deeper and more interesting. Try to pass on your own or with the help of a familiar psychologist Luscher color test. Its result will offer you four shades that you will associate with self-esteem, self-confidence, development, and limitations. In this case, the shades will lie in the standard range: red, green, blue, and yellow.
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