Understanding Decorating Color Balance, Part 2

We can enter another room and see that some one has used a warm two tone gold subtle striped wallpaper, a patterned red and gold fabric for the drapes, a different color way, green and gold.

The scale of the pattern on the sofa, the gold and red colors are also depicted in a painting over the fireplace and the carpet is soft warm and inviting shade of red.

They have thought about the colors and how they are to be seen as a whole.

By selecting two or three colors and distributing them around the room in different weights they seem to flow through the room.

A one off color will stand out and be the centre of attention, as it does not relate to anything else in the room. Picture Right - A room with equal amounts of three different colors to the walls is not pleasing to the eye. There is no sense of balance. The left wall is very heavy and enclosing, dominating the space, it does not tie in with any of the other décor.

Picture Right - This room is balanced as only two colors have been used on the walls, one being used more and is therefore dominant, the pale blue. The yellow acts as a feature behind the bed and accentuates the yellow in the bedspread.

If you imagine a room with four walls, if you then painted each wall a different color, there would be no balance. If you painted two opposing walls the same color you have created a balance, or even one wall a different color to the others.

But the first example doesn’t let your eyes rest, and makes you feel uneasy, it does not create a pleasing balance.

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