Coloring Home

It’s exciting to make the decision to decorate, or re-decorate a room or space in your home. But for many folks, the next step is not clear, and hiring an interior designer may not be in the budget. So the challenge is to find a way to complete your design project while keeping the stress level as low as the budget!

There are several decisions you should make at the onset of your project, and one of the most important is the color scheme for the space. Determining the color scheme before you make any purchases or other design decisions will benefit you in several ways.

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Depending on your personality, decorating can be an aspect of owning a log home that you enjoy or that you loathe. While one person delights in finding that perfect color or fabric, the next person has cold sweats just trying to match something to go with the deep browns inherent in a log cabin.

You can take the worry out of any decorating project, whether it be finding the right color scheme or picking the right furnishings to go with your log home, if you simply remember some critical elements of decorating.

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If you’re about to renovate your entire home, or just a single room, then your choice of color is an important consideration. Color has a tremendous impact on the overall feel of your home, and should also complement the style of home you’re creating.

After all, color affects our emotions as much as other aspects of home decor do, so it’s important to give it some reflection.

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This is an interior decorating project you can do. Your color palette is what makes the rooms in your home come together. Well designed homes always have a beautiful color palette that flows between rooms from the entrance to the living room, family room, kitchen, powder room, stairway, etc. This flow is the relationship created from one room to another. A color palette is not the same as a paint color. The palette incorporates various paint and room colors. Not every room needs to be the same color or shade thereof though they do need to relate to one another. Good interior design begins with a well thought out color palette.

Start with the colors you already like. What do you gravitate to? What colors are in your closet? What colors are in your garden? Think about how certain colors make you feel this will send you in the right direction. Be confident and don’t apologize. Your room and home colors should reflect you and your personality, not your neighborhood design trend.

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