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7/25/2011

Tips of practical color selection

Everybody loves home decor ,first, buy several quarts of the colors that appeal to you. Then go to the local craft store and buy a dozen twenty by thirty inch poster boards and give them two coats of paint each. Do two or three sheets for each color. Next, put the sheets in different locations in the same room. This will give you the opportunity to see how the color reacts to light: close to a window or deep in shadow, under a lamp, or by candlelight.

Most people overlook this aspect as many don't realize we need to look for colors with secondary characteristics - an afterglow or quality that inexplicably becomes more appealing on the wall than it was in the can. It's almost impossible to recognize these traits from a swatch, but you can notice them immediately once you've seen the paint on your wall.

I'd also recommend buying more than one shade of a color you think you'll like. It's amazing how different they look on the walls.

Here’re some addtional questions you may want to ask when deciding on the right interior color:

• What color are the clothes in your closet? Do you tend to pick our colorful pieces or stick with the neutral ones?

• How big is the space? Do you want it to feel cozier or feel larger?

• Do you like to unify your rooms in the same color?

• How do you want to feel in the room? Relaxed and calm or dynamic and energetic?

• How much available light is there?

• Is there a view in the room? Do you want to incorporate this into your interior?

With the above, I hope you can enlist the familiarity of these everyday objects into a relaxed and meaningful color scheme.

Once you've selected the color, the most important part of the painting process is not the painting itself, but the preparation of dining decor .

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