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Interior Decorating Color Articles

Get used to viewing color with an interior decorator's eye.

Read articles on color and see how you can learn from others, take their techniques and adapt them to suit your own color schemes.

There are millions of ways to decorate a single room, but only hundreds that look and feel like they have interior design appeal.

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So take the bold step of creating those looks yourself by learning from interior designers about what they have to say about color and color theory in the following articles.

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White, Why Not?

As a population we tend to find a trend and grab onto it and run, we fully saturate ourselves in it and then we get bored and find the next one to follow. This is great for the retail stores selling linen, furniture and accessories and the contractors redecorating interiors on a regular basis. But not so good for your pocket!

read more about the use of white .....

Previously we had the choice of white, cream or gray, the "safe" neutrals

Color Temperature and Movement

The warm colors and dark tones are advancing; they bring the color closer towards you, the cool colors and pale tones receding, as they seem to move away from you.

Color Juxtaposition

Our interpretation of a color can be changed when certain colors are juxtaposed. A bright color will make the color that lies next to it appear more like its complementary color.

The effect of juxtaposing contrasting colors creates movement and vitality.

Personal Color

.............the colors people prefer to wear and be surrounded by can suggest their personalities. Attention seeking teenagers prefer red, the quiet more reserved prefer.............

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Attention seeking teenagers prefer the color red.

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