Painting your home? Color combinations for your consideration!

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Don't fret over colors! Step one- Grab your FAVORITE thing...

Go to your closet, and get your favorite dress, or shoes, or favorite saved picture on the computer, THEN draw inspiration from that item.

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Step 2 - You now have your main color, NOW pick a complementry COLOR 

Option 1 Mono-Chromatic Color Scheme 

1. Mono-chromatic: Using one color (hue) throughout, utilizing that colors various tones and shades of that color. When using a mono-chromatic scheme using multiple textures creates character and maintains unity.

Option 2 Complimentary Color Scheme 

2. Complimentary: Using two colors (hues) that are opposites such as red and green or violet and yellow.

Option 3 Analogous Color Scheme 

3. Analogous: Using three colors (hues) that are neighboring each other on the color wheel. These schemes can be warm or cool since colors are adjacent on the color wheel.

Option 4 Triadic Color theme 

4. Triadic: Using three colors (hues) that are equal distance apart on the color wheel, such as red, yellow and blue or using secondary colors yellow-green, blue-violet, and red-orange.

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