A guide to the Color Wheel will help you when you are organizing or decorating your home. Color adds variety and unity to the room you are decorating. Below is a guide to the color wheel that will help you to understand color so you can utilize it when you choose organizing pieces for your decorated home.  Read on for photos and color wheel combinations.

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The Color Wheel

Primary Colors = Red, Blue, Yellow

Secondary Colors = Orange, Violet (Purple), Green

Intermediate colors = Red Orange, Yellow Orange, Yellow Green, Blue Green, Blue Violet, Red Violet

Neutrals: Black, White, Browns, Tans, and Grays

Dining Room Colors from hgtv.com

* Every color on the color wheel can become a tint by adding white, or a shade by adding black. The colors can also be neutralized and thus not as bright as their true color.

Living Room colors from hgtv.com

 

Basic Color Wheel Color Schemes/Combinations

Monochromatic: Shades and Tints of one color may also include neutrals   example: Red, Pink, and White

Analogous: A few colors right next to each other on the color wheel     example: Violet, Blue Violet, & Blue

Complementary: Two colors opposite one another on the color wheel     example:  Blue and Orange, Yellow Green & Red Violet

Split complementary: A color and then the two colors adjacent to the first color     example:  Violet, Yellow Orange, and Yellow Green

Triadic: Three colors equally distanced from each other on the color wheel     example:  Red, Yellow Green

* These are just the basic color schemes, the color wheel helps you to see many options.  Choose colors and put them together, if you like them, use them!

Use of the Color Wheel

Considering the color wheel when choosing colors for your home will give your home unity and harmony.  As the same color scheme is used throughout your room it will bring the room together and make it look unified, and give the room a feeling of completion.  Know that colors give a psychological feel of temperature as well.  The color wheel can be divided in half to display warm and cool colors.  The warm colors are yellows through reds.  The cool colors are violets through greens.  When you choose an organizing container and décor for your room, the object can blend in or stand out depending on the color you choose.  For example, in a complementary color scheme room of blue and orange, the orange might be used less frequently, thus catching the eye.

For more guides to the color wheel check out:

When you organize and decorate your home, remember to use the color wheel. It makes any room a memorable room!

* A Guide to the Color Wheel was prepared and presented by our own in-house interior design student and organization specialist, Virginia Kestler.

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  9. Christina Carabini Says:
    June 14th, 2011 at 2:55 am

    However if you choose items in a neutral color that have a similar design it is easy to mix and match them for a great effect.

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