Determine one wall in your room as the primary focal point of the room, and choose a darker color for that wall. You should choose a color on the same base as your other wall colors, perhaps off of a color wheel, but at a darker shade than the rest of your walls. This will give you room a very classy and powerful feel that is very 2010 and beyond.
Mix Up Your Colors
Welcome to HousePaintingEstimates.com’s new section devoted to providing you with excellent tips and ideas to help you with your painting project. For the initial article, I wanted us to focus on a touch that I personally have implemented in my own home recently. When you are going through that painstaking process of trying to determine what color to paint a certain interior room in your home, the key is not to pick a color. Or more specifically, do not pick only one color. Finding two or more complementary colors will give your room, and ultimately your entire home, a more contemporary appeal.
Choosing the colors actually becomes easier this way as well, as you can easily find color swatches at paint stores with preconfigured groups of complementary colors. This does not have to be an intricate pattern or complex design, but rather can be simply painting one wall as an accent wall (typically a darker, more dramatic color), with the rest of the room a lighter and more neutral color. In larger or less traditional rooms, you may even be able to incorporate more colors into the room, separated by obvious barriers such as any corner in a wall.
One drawback is that this will certainly result in the purchasing of additional paint, but if you take the time beforehand to compare the colors and make sure that all colors selected will blend in well together (especially in an open floorplan where you may have 6 or 7 colors visible from one location), you will truly enjoy a visually appealing interior.