Are you looking for information about color? Perhaps you're looking for color inspiration to decorate a room in your home. Or maybe you're learning to paint and want to learn how to mix colors. Whether you just want ideas to paint your walls or you're planning on redecorating an entire room, you're going to find information that will teach, inspire and open your creative mind to more possiblities.
The color wheels, color schemes, interior design ideas and decorating tips provided here are for anyone looking to work with color in their life. The articles you read here are much more than color schemes... they take a step farther in giving you exciting home decorating ideas, how-to decorate with color lessons, interior decorating pictures and color theory articles that will teach you how to work with colors to create your own exciting color scheme. So, dive into the dozens of color how-to's, interior design tips and decorating photos. Print them, email them and enjoy!
Color Schemes
| Monochromatic Color Scheme - Neutral Beige - Dec 30, 2008 - 7:01:20 AM |
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| Look at how this monochromatic color scheme creates a warm and inviting bedroom. This color scheme is really made up of only one neutral color... but there is an accent of some red. This is a nice warm color scheme. |
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Color Schemes
| Complementary Color Scheme - Orange - Dec 29, 2008 - 7:37:32 AM |
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| This bedroom uses a balance of vibrant orange and pale blues... creating a fun complementary color scheme. Explore the color theory behind the color choices in this bedroom design. |
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Color Schemes
| Analogous Color Scheme - Cool Blue - Dec 29, 2008 - 7:03:49 AM |
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| A cool, calming color scheme. Muted grey-blues, greens and cremes create an analogous color scheme. Learn how this bedroom design uses these colors to create a successful color scheme. |
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How To Decorate with Color
| Analogous Color Schemes - Cool Colors - Dec 28, 2008 - 11:17:48 PM |
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| A common color scheme to use when decorating is using colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Also known as a analogous color scheme. An analogous color scheme uses 2 or 3 colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. Read on to learn how to decorate using an analogous color scheme. |
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Mixing Colors
| The Value of Color - Lightness or Darkness of Hue - Dec 16, 2008 - 12:24:43 AM |
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| There are 2 ways you can change the appearance of color without changing its hue. You can change the color by changing the value or the intensity. In this lesson, I will show you how to change the value of a color. |
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