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10 Tips to Select Color for Your Home

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10 Tips to Select Color for Your Home

10 Tips to Select Color for Your Home

  • Colour Matching Design Theme
  • Geomancy Advise (Fengshui)
  • Follow 3 paint colour rules
  • How Undertone Works
  • Lamination Vs Paint
  • Analogous Theme selection
  • Complementary Theme selection
  • Monochromatic Colour selection
  • Natural light
  • All into One

 

 

 

 

#1 Colour Matching Design Theme

Choosing the Right colours will make your house look great and effectively bring out the aesthetic appeal of what a Theme can Do. Another way to create an interesting colour theme is to extract your Favourite colours from an image.

 

 

 

 

#2 Geomancy Advise (Fengshui)

Some people believe Fengshui can bring wealth and prosperity to the house and Family, with the right paint colour can boost their career, relationship, health, and more. Studies from Chinese zodiacs use a birth calendar (Ba Zhi) to calculate the best colour for your house.

 

 

 

 

 

#3 Follow 3 paint colour rules

Colours can delude your sense of space. The ideal way is to limit to 3 colours for any space. Try out 6:3:2 ratio for light, medium and dark colours to create a balance finish.


                           

 

 

#4 How Undertone Works

Paint a dark colour on the wall to see if you envision the result turn out to be your expectation. Based on Yellow and Red will have a warm undertone. Whereas, based on blue, green, and grey will have a cool undertone Looks.

               

 

 

   

         

#5 Lamination Vs Paint

Tricks to match your carpentry lamination and Paint Colours well.

  1. Match the light colour with dark colour
  2. Match Matt finish with glossary finish
  3. Match plain grain with design grain

If you can match all 3 points, the result is likely to be the best. However, matching 2 points is already good enough.

 

 

 

#6 Analogous Theme selection

Analogous colours are three colours next to each other on the colour wheel, composed of one dominant colour. Usually applies to areas that are big such as the living area to illustrate the effect of the paint colour.

 

 

 

 

 

#7 Complementary Theme selection

Complementary colours are usually two colours that are on the opposite side of the colour wheels. This combination provides a high contrast impact colour combination, fulfilling a harmonious balance. Usually, this can apply to the bedroom in the house.

 

 

 

 

#8 Monochromatic Colour selection

Monochromatic colour refers to a colour scheme that “compromised variations of one colour.” To create shades of one-colour swatch, simply add different amounts of white or grey into a paint tub.

 

 

 

#9 Natural light

Experiment how natural light and ceiling light affects the colour of paint, furniture, and other covering. A dark colour room creates a cozy yet intimate space, whereas lighter colour rooms reflect the colours surrounding it.

 

 

 

 

#10 All into One

After all, you will have to match all furnishes together in your house, making everything look and feel like a whole. Wall colour, floor tile colour, carpentry colour, furniture colour, curtain colour, and even carpets colour, all of these are just a living area.

                                                 

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