Home Decor Tips: How to customize your decor with colour
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(NC)—You can personalize your next painting project with a colour scheme especially suited to your style, taste or even fondest memories.
The first step, find a picture or photograph that recalls a happy trip or vacation. Select the dominant colour in that picture as the paint colour for your room. For example, a trip to a resort or cottage can be recollected by using the blue of the sky as your dominant colour, with the green of the surrounding trees as the accent colour.
With colours it's all about adjusting perceptions. A paint colour can actually change our perception of the size and shape of a room itself. The right colour in the right place for example, can make a room appear larger and brighter, or more intimate and less empty. It can even make a long and narrow room look more square-shaped, or vice-versa.
Here's a general guideline offered by the paint experts at Sico:
To make a room appear:
• Larger: use a pale colour to create the impression that the walls are further away.
• Brighter: use a pale shade, like a light yellow.
• Smaller: use a dark colour to make the room more intimate and less empty. Reds and earth shades for example, give the impression that walls are closer to us.
To change the perception of room shape:
• Long & Narrow to Square: paint the shorter walls in a darker colour than the longer ones.
• Square to Long & Narrow: paint the two facing walls you wish to look longer in a lighter colour.
To choose a finish:
According to Dominique Pépin, Senior Brand Manager at Sico and member of the Colour Marketing Group, flat paints such as Sico Cashmere and Sico Chamois add richness and depth to the colour of your room. "Today, even high-traffic household areas like hallways, playrooms, bathrooms and kitchens can hold up easily with a lower gloss, but washable paint," she added. For more information and advice on painting and decor visit the sico.ca web site.
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Last modified: 09/21/03
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