Color Schemes
Color Wheel
Any color scheme begins with a single color. You want a blue dining room. A red house. A yellow nursery. The question is, what next? Look at the blue dining room. The simplest scheme would be a monochromatic approach. Do the entire room in shades of blue. You probably don’t want dark blue walls, so go with a lighter tint, like powder blue. The trim could be a darker shade of the same color, or in what designers call an analogous scheme, the trim color could come from one of blue’s adjacent slices of the color wheel. If blue on blue proves to be overpowering, you can look for a complementary color – one that falls opposite your first choice on the color wheel. Technically, in the blue dining room, this would be orange; however you might prefer to fudge just a little with a brass chandelier or a burnt umber finish on the furniture. For variety, you might choose triadic colors, those that are equidistant from each other on the color wheel. Tints and shades of blue, red, and yellow are shown on the color wheel. Pictures in decorating and house magazines are also a good source for color combinations that work well tobether.
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