How To Colour Coordinate Your Home

Nothing is more exciting than buying your first home or getting the chance to revamp a room in your home!

When working with a blank canvas we always recommend creating a mood-board to get the right look and feel for your space.

If you are working with existing furniture, we like to look at the style of furniture in place and find ways to give it a new lease of life and create a new style for your room.

We recommend choosing your fabrics for curtains and soft furnishings first especially if you would like to introduce patterned fabrics into the scheme.

From there we can choose your primary and secondary colours for walls and artwork. Finally accent a colour throughout with accessories.

How to use the 60/30/10 percent rule Keep the colour scheme flowing

When choosing colours for your new scheme try out this easy to follow approach to help create a wellbalanced scheme.

In a scheme 60 percent is the main colour for your room.

Most likely the 60 percent in a living room would be most of your walls and large accent pieces like rugs and sofa.

Your 30 percent is the secondary colour. So this could be curtains, accent chairs, bed linens, painted furniture, or even creating an accent wall.The idea is that the secondary colour supports the main colour, but is different enough to set them apart and give the room interest. The real fun comes with the accent colour you’ll be adding next.

Your 10 percent is your accent colour. For a living room, this is yourscatter cushions, decorative accessories, and artwork. For a bedroom, this could be accent pillows on the bed, lamps on the bedside table and candles. Your accent colour can be pulled from artwork in the room, or from a printed fabric.

Once you've selected a colour scheme for the main room in your home, choose one colour from it to carry it throughout your home.

You can always add other colours to the main colour when moving from one room to the next.

Using this strategy will keep your home décor flowing and cohesive without being too similar in every room.

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