Top 4 Color Schemes - Making Your Color Selection Easy

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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 22, 2009 -- Confused about color? I personally cannot count the number of times I have had a client, friend or family member ask me for assistance in choosing colors. For many people, selecting colors for their home or business can be an overwhelming task. Trying to find the right colors with just the right tones and choosing where to put the color may seem impossible. By hiring a professional like myself, you can put your worries aside.

Using a color scheme is a good way to ensure all of the colors in your space coincides. For more permanent items in the space such as millwork, furniture or flooring, don’t worry too much about which colors are the “it” colors of the season. Instead select colors and textures that work with your lifestyle or vision. Leave the “it” colors for less permanent items like paint on feature walls or smaller less expensive décor items.

There are four popular color schemes developed from the color wheel: monochromatic, analogous, complementary and triad.

A monochromatic color scheme is where one color with varying tints (lighter values) and shades (darker values) is chosen from the color wheel. An example of this may be choosing red from the color wheel and choosing a lighter tint such as pink and a darker shade such as burgundy.

An analogous scheme includes colors that lay next to one another on the color wheel, such as blue and blue-violet. These colors work together because they are sharing a common color or hue.

A complementary scheme has colors that lay opposite each other on the color wheel, such as violet and yellow. Complementary color schemes also pair warm colors such as reds, oranges and yellows with cool colors such as blues, violets and greens of the color wheel. When colors in a complimentary scheme are paired together they make each other more dramatic. This complimentary color scheme is a double-edged sword. For example, this can be negative if you pair a green paint with millwork that may seem neutral, but has a pink (a value of red) undertone. In this case the green paint will make the millwork even pinker and the millwork will make the paint even greener.

Another way to select a color is based on the triad color scheme. This consists of any three equally spaced colors, for example, green, blue and violet.

No matter which color scheme you choose, only one color should be dominant to avoid an overwhelming excitement in the room.

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