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How to Decide on Colors to Paint a House

How to Decide on a Color to Paint a Room

Design your color scheme with mood and space for color decisions. Color decisions in room painting design now delve into new therapeutic concepts for color in design. Go beyond the standard likes and dislikes of color to discover truly effective therapeutic color decisions.


  • Consider the reds, corals, oranges all to energize a room. Soft subtle trims in corals or reds with a white or beige primary color offers other techniques for accenting with warmth and energy. These reds, corals and oranges are guaranteed to ignite feelings to an area that was 'once drab or not over active.

  • Expand with blue, add expansive space and calm to a room. If the room feels confined or small adding blues will enlarge the space, giving a sky like feeling to the room. Blues also resonate nicely with your neutrals; trims with blue, whites on blue with crisp linens offer a refreshing ambiance.

  • Imagine stone washed denims and deep night skies for the Indigoes paint. The top brass of navy or indigo with gold is always a winner for a room. Where a formal attitude is required, these colors add the touch of formality a dining room or living room may require. The indigoes and navy always the crisp finished look so often craved in a dining room.

  • Define your garden room or aviary with light to dark greens. Green is predominately associated with growth and plants; often designers utilize greens for garden type rooms or conservatories'. Patio furnishings and recreation type rooms are favored in green tones, since the colors elicit a feeling of being out of doors or at parks.