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Article Six: Elements of Design 101A - Color Part 2
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We now continue with the second part of the fifth Element of Design, color. Even though it's extensive, don't be afraid of color. Remember, it's a decorator's greatest ally.
Now let's review some art class basics on colors and their combinations:
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- Primary colors act as the basis for all other colors. The primary colors are red, blue and yellow
- Secondary colors are made from equal quantities of two primary colors. They are orange, green and violet.
- Tertiary (or intermediate) colors are created by the primary color mixing with its nearest secondary neighbor on the color wheel. It sounds harder than it really is. For example, yellow with its nearest secondary neighbor, green, together makes yellow-green. Red together with its nearest secondary neighbor, orange becomes red-orange. Blue together with its nearest secondary neighbor, violet becomes blue-violet. Are you getting the color yet? And, there are three others, blue-green, yellow-orange and red-violet.
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In addition to these twelve basic colors there are hundreds of colors possible - really millions, but who's keeping score. By recombining or mixing intermediate colors, tinting, shading, and varying levels of intensity, you can create countless more colors. The sky is the limit.
This quick guide, along with my other articles, will give you a new way of looking at that much loved chair or sofa or what happens when you paint a room your favorite color and yet, everything looks yucky. Yucky, of course, is not a color it's a feeling. Decorators often pick a color tint that is contained within a main piece of furniture, such as a sofa, as the color base for the room. If you didn't do that, that could explain the yucky feeling. |
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Remember, color can play a big part in establishing a mood. Also, color helps to unify different pieces in the room.
Some tend to think of colors in terms of whether they are warm or cool - mood setters. Cool colors tend to have more of a blue base and appear to be soothing and receding. Warm colors tend to be more yellow or red-based and appear to be stimulating and emphasizing.
Find an appealing hue in your sofa or chair that might stimulate a feeling to change the mood of your sitting room?
Until next time, happy Home Staging and Styling |
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