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Because the wrong paint job can seriously wreck your home.

Repeat Colors From Room to Room

Designers create the coordinated look of a whole-house palette through repetition.

Use any color at least twice, the dominant wall color in one space might become an accent color in the next. This rule is followed by using turquoise paint in the home office and turquoise patterned wallpaper in the dining room.

 

Note that having a six- or seven-color palette does not give you license to cram all the colors into every room in equal measure — or that each of seven rooms should be swallowed whole by a single shade. Yikes. Distribute your palette throughout the house in a balanced way.

The 60-30-10 Color Rule: Your main color should appear on 60% of a room’s surfaces, your secondary color should cover 30%, and an accent color is the remaining 10%. Sure, your remaining colors may peek out from a throw pillow, but let them really shine in another room.

Test Lighting and Sight Lines

Before committing to a palette, consider two more elements: lighting and sight lines (how the hues look when you see them from other rooms).

Rather than choosing paint by looking only at small swatches, buy sample-sized cans of your colors and paint them on poster boards.

Place your poster-sized paint samples so they’re visible as you walk through the house. Then look down the hallway and from room to room to see how the colors play off each other. And notice how the light affects the colors, too.

 

You may need to relocate certain colors, or even choose another color from your inspiration palette, to find the right flow. But once you’ve done so, you’ll be all set to put your whole-house palette into play.

Until next time….

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